Fotos: Ferdinand Graf Luckner, Produktion: Victoria Moldenhauer, Text: Phillip Wesselhöft, Der Zeitschriftenartikel dokumentiert eine von 4 Wohnungen des sog. Brauhauses in Gartow, welches bereits in der Projektdarstellung des Büros Christian v. Bismarck mit Bildern und Texten vertreten ist. Das Besondere an der hier gezeigten Wohnung ist der sehr schmale tiefe Grundriss. Durch die zentrale Anordnung der Küche im offenen Treppenhaus konnten hier trotzdem gut proportionierte helle Wohnbereiche ohne „Schlauchwirkung“ geschaffen werden..

I will talk on civilization. But after a while I thought that was a very ambiguous title. It could mean a lot, it could mean the whole history of civilization.

Mies Van Der Rohe

My definition about civilization was not a full one. There is no question that the advance in science, and I have seen it at least for more than 50 years, and I have seen it advance rapidly and in the opposite I got the impression that these things become so strong in itself that they go on forever, and that the main problem would be to be able to guide these things a little.

And that is again the question of civilization. The question if we can educate ourselves enough and not to become able to regulate things because otherwise will go out of hand.

And it, it is you, you have to build up this civilization. You have to build up the world you want to live in. And nobody else can do it for you. I have one more thing to say: Don’t worry about success.

I always tell my students, “Success is just the by-product of good, simple and honest work.” And this simple and honest work, I think, is the essence of civilization.

Mies van der Rohe Speech, January 25, 1958 via MIES Society.