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Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Age: 83 †
Born: 1886
Born: March 27
Died: 1969
Died: August 17
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We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.
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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
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First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
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If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.
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The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.
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