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September 24, 2012
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It then became very clear to me that it was not the task of architecture to invent form.
I tried to understand what the task was.
I asked Peter Behrens, but he could not give me an answer.
He did not ask that question …
We searched in the quarries of ancient and medieval philosophy.

Since we knew that it was a question of truth, we tried to find out what the truth really was. We were very delighted to find an actual definition of truth by St. Thomas Aquinas:

“Adaequatio intellectus et rei” or as a modern philosopher expresses in the language of today: “Truth is the significance of fact”.

I never forgot this. It was very helpful, and has been a guiding light.

To find out what architecture really is took me fifty years – half a century.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1961

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