kahn, mies, koenig - case studies in modernism

three of my favourite modernist architects, for three very different reasons.

"You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself."
louis i kahn

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."
ludwig mies van der rohe
see also ludwig mies van der rohe by Franz Schulze.

"Industry has not learned the difference between what is beautiful in its simplicity and what is ugly although equally simple...."
"The pressure is so great that the architect is a captive. He functions best as a free agent."
pierre koenig
from Esther McCoy. Case Study Houses 1945-1962. p118, who passed away, strangely enough on 04.04.04 , aged 78.
see also pierre koenig with foreward by norman foster.