Ludwig Mies van der Rohe



Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969), was a German architect and designer.

Quotes

 * God is in the details.
 * "On restraint in Design" in The New York Herald Tribune (28 June 1959)
 * Less is more.
 * adopted by 1947 as a precept for Minimalist design and architecture.
 * I don´t want to be interesting, I want to be good.
 * Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
 * Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Disputed

 * Symmetry is the aesthetics of the stupid.
 * An early appearance is "Symmetry is the aesthetics of the little man," which appears in the 1965 book Bauen auf dem Lande (Building in the Countryside), volumes 16-17. However, the quote has also variously been attributed to Picasso, Salvatore Dali and Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

Misattributed

 * Less is more.
 * Actually Robert Browning, from Andrea del Sarto. "Less is often more" was used still earlier by Christoph Martin Wieland.