Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

thumb|Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1934) 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.http://falschzitate.blogspot.com/2017/11/symmetrie-ist-die-asthetik-der-dummen.html "Symmetry is the aesthetics of the stupid." Mies van der Rohe (allegedly) 2018-01-21 2017-11-12 Misattributed Less is more. Actually Robert Browning, from Andrea del Sarto. "Less is often more" was used still earlier by Christoph Martin Wieland. External links Category:Architects from Germany Category:Architects from the United States Category:Educators from Germany Category:Educators from the United States Category:Designers Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:1886 births Category:1969 deaths Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients