“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There ...” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quote

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.

We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.

Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind.