German Architect Quotes

Albert Speer

Walter Gropius

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Peter Behrens

Paul Blobel

Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings.... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

Women overwhelmingly carry the load of the economic chaos and social misery caused by the present money system everywhere in the world.

Margrit Kennedy

The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?