May 2012
34 posts
“First of all, I was influenced by old buildings. I looked at them, people built them. I don’t know the names, and I don’t know what it was … mostly very simple buildings. When I was really young, not even twenty years old, I was impressed by the strength of these old buildings because they didn’t even belong to any epoch. But they were there for one thousand years and still there and still impressive, and nothing could change it. And all the styles, the great styles, passed, but they were still there. They didn’t lose anything. They were ignored through certain architectural epochs, but they were still there and still good as they were in the first day they were built.”
—Mies Van der Rohe (via paris2london)
365 Reasons We Love...New York City
