THE GREAT MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE

"Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future [...] Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it trascends into architecture. [...] I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old.

Architecture is the battleground of the spirit. Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names. Architecture depends on its time. [...] That is the reason why architecture and technology are so closely related. Our real hope is that they grow together, that someday the one will be the expression of the other. Only then will we have an architecture worthy of its name:

Architecture as a true symbol of our time."

From ID Merger Speech - April, 17 1950 - Mies van der Rohe