Entre las redes cambiantes, a menudo inconexas, de la gran ciudad, los rascacielos, los edificios de
Mies en general--y la Galeria Nacional, en su vuelta a Berlin, seria el ejemplo superlativo-, se manifiestan seguros en su claridad, fascinantes en su fria belleza (44); semejan estar fuera del tiempo.
La vision que se da del Pabellon de Barcelona, a traves del video 1 (Bris, 2007), enfatiza la interpretacion que hemos realizado del edificio de
Mies: permite apreciar los distintos grados de diferenciacion que entre interior y exterior se producen sobre el podio; privilegia la vision de un espacio continuo en el interior del Pabellon; y contribuye a agrandar un espacio de dimensiones relativamente pequenas, lo que facilita percibir el Pabellon como una porcion de ciudad.
From the exterior, rather than reflecting
Mies' objective of pure transparency, the building has the impression of a rectangular haze or mist.
Currently
MIES is conducting aggressive marketing and business development activities in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
As Johnson said in Architectural Review in 1950, the main motif of the house, the brick platform and the brick cylinder, came not from
Mies "but rather from a burnt wooden village I saw once where nothing was left but foundations and chimneys of brick.
The originals, specially assembled here for this event from the CCA, the MOMA, and other venues, have been orchestrated in a didactical and chronological manner to illustrate what Lambert has identified as the four phases of
Mies' career in North America.
In the last decade of his life,
Mies turned out to be a useful target for the polemic of postmodernist architects and critics.
"
Mies in Berlin" takes an in-depth look at the early career of
Mies from 1905, when he moved to Berlin, to 1938, when he emigrated to the United States.
REJECTING SOCIALISM as an alternative,
Mies and Shiva instead propose a model for living which they call the subsistence perspective.
It continues the artists' year-long exploration of architecture by
Mies, which began with the Barcelona Pavilion and will end with the Farnsworth House.
Lighting designer Caleb McKenzie, LC, IALDA,
MIES, and a principal at US Lighting Consultants, has become the 92nd president of the New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC).
(7) Como es sabido, ella no conocia aun a
Mies Van der Rohe; pero parece que lo estuviera citando cuando expresaba como la arquitectura deberia ser una busqueda por conseguir la armonia, la proporcion y el arte:
The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals, including under the Canadian Competition Act and the Investment Canada Act, and is also subject to approval from
MIEs shareholders.
A handsomely-produced volume, this new book on architect
Mies van der Rohe will appeal both to professional architects and students interested in
Mies, and to fans of coffee-table books on buildings.
By considering
Mies van der Rohe's character and his work through the lens of the contributions of dandyism to modernity, this article offers a different perspective on where the German architect stands in terms of some of the recurring questions in the conversation on cutting-edge design, especially those on the relationship between architecture and the city.
