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Architecture
Architecture
Disney Concert HallFrank O. Gehry,Los Angeles 2003
A symphony in steel
The Walt Disney Concert hall will be a feast for your eyes,
ears, and spirits.
- Gil Garcetti
I run into metal because it allows you building a building that captures the sculpture in its same materialand it seems its working well
- Frank O. Ghery
Seagram BuildingMies Van der Rohe,New York 1958
is in - Mies Van Der RoheGoddetails
In an era of innovation, he was a disciplinarian. He found shapes for the new possibilities of glass and steel, and the architecture of the world has never been the same since. TIME magazine, Aug 1969
Mies purifiesand purifies till,as at Seagram, he makes the paradigm for America's tall building.
- Philip Johnson
Less is more Mies Van der Rohe
Seagram PlazaA hole in the middle of the crowded streets
Mies creates a square that welcomes New Yorkers giving them a chance to stop and relax.Only a great architect would have ever achieved such an ambitious aim. Franz Schulze
Federal Center
Mies Van der Rohe,Chicago 1960
IBM Plaza,Mies Van der Rohe, Chicago 1967
I dont want to be original, I want to be good
I want my works to connect to the surrounding though they must differ. One has to live the spirit of his time
Crown HalL
Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
Mies Van der Rohe,Chicago 1956
"Crown Hall departs from the module that Mies established for the campus in his master plan. As a result, it...becomes what Mies called representational...[which] must declare the highest purposes and ideals of the institution.- Kevin Harrington, AIA Guide to Chicago
Farnsworth HouseMies Van Der Rohe, Plano 1951
the emptinessI sometimes find so hard to fill
skin and bones
Fragments
New York City
Brooklyn Bridge, July 4th 2008
September 11 2006
Ground Zero
July 4th 2008
Park Avenue Seagram PlazaDecember 2007
Nevada
Hoover Dam,built in1935
London
The city and theSwiss Re tower by Norman FosterPiccadilly Circus,Chinese New Years Eve 2007
St. Pauls Cathedraland the Millenium Bridge
Mykonos
Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace, -- Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!Lord Byron, Don Juan 1824