Slog - Comments on Forever Mies http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies Some lovely passages from an old feature story (2002) about this stone of a human being: 1 Mies believed... in something more noble than politics, the ruthless pursuit of the perfect modern building, the true heir, he thought, to Greek temples and gothic cathedrals - buildings constructed on earth in order to escape it. These were cathedrals for the new religion, commerce and industry - factories, office blocks, skyscrapers and apartment towers, the modern urban landscape, whose architecture had yet to be invented. The form lay out there for him to discover. "The will of the epoch," he said, must... Copyright 2008 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:29:33 -0800 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:55:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Jaime-Leigh OMG!! I made it through an entire Mudede post. I've been reading for months, and this is the first one I've managed to get through. I'm not sure how that makes me feel...

]]> Jaime-Leigh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804105 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804105 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:46:13 -0800 Comment by Ziggity @1: Like you're in touch with the radical and the mundane, the haptic and the cryptic? Drinking psilocybin tea Donald Duck, Donald Trump, and Donald Barthelmes? Speaking obtusely as an excuse to look at tits?

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804109 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804109 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:54:23 -0800 Comment by Benjamin Having lived in Chicago for seven years and graduated with a design degree related to architecture, Mies Van der Roe is like a ghost that haunts me. His furniture is everywhere. It confronts me in museums, airports, restaurants...all of them ostensibly "modern". What does that say about the design field that some of the most "modern" spaces are populated with furniture designed in the teens and twenties. Is that commentary on his genius or on our lack of talent and vision?

]]> Benjamin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804118 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804118 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:05:18 -0800 Comment by The Baron Benjamin - you should check out some of these so called "modern" art galleries!

]]> The Baron http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804162 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804162 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:40:58 -0800 Comment by Jimmy Thanks for that Charles.

]]> Jimmy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804205 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804205 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:02:52 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 is it just me or does this guy sound just like Howard Roark

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804209 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804209 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:06:17 -0800 Comment by Benjamin @4 The Baron, art galleries do not typically have lots of furniture.

I am talking about mostly public spaces and home furniture catalogs, like "Design Out of Reach" which tout practically ancient designs as modern.

]]> Benjamin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804234 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804234 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:20:47 -0800 Comment by NaFun The Bauhaus school doesn't dance, it marches. And that is why it sucks.

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804302 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804302 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:56:50 -0800 Comment by Dod Viva the Norton Building!!!!

]]> Dod http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804311 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804311 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:08:47 -0800 Comment by josh mies van der rohe once tried to kill me in a dream.

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804401 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804401 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:24:20 -0800 Comment by Amelia Mies van der Rohe said "less is more" and used very high-quality materials. "Less is more," Charles.

]]> Amelia http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804437 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804437 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:02:12 -0800 Comment by maxsolomon mies used steel beams decoratively - not all of them were essential to the structure.

fucking hypocrite.

]]> maxsolomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804443 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804443 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:04:44 -0800 Comment by iit alum I Mies designed brick-clad buildings too. And Philip Johnson once imitated Mies's style, when he designed the Glass House.

And what's not to like about Barcelona chairs? Probably the most comfortable public furniture ever.

]]> iit alum http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804607 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804607 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:13:53 -0800 Comment by iit alum Eek: I forgot html bullshit

I [heart] Crown Hall

]]> iit alum http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804610 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804610 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:15:05 -0800 Comment by Dod Crown Hall is quite lovely. I saw it for the first time this spring.
#14 Have you seen Koolhaas's piece at IIT?? I like it...

]]> Dod http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804671 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/forever_mies#c804671 Architecture Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:55:01 -0800