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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969), was a German architect and designer.
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- God is in the details.
- "On restraint in Design" in The New York Herald Tribune (28 June 1959)
- Less is more.Template:Misattributed - see below
- 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.
- 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.[1]
- Less is more.
- Actually Robert Browning, from Andrea del Sarto. "Less is often more" was used still earlier by Christoph Martin Wieland.
- ↑ "Symmetry is the aesthetics of the stupid." Mies van der Rohe (allegedly) (2017-11-12). Retrieved on 2018-01-21.
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