Tagged: MIES

ORDINARY BUILDING JAPAN 0

EVERYDAY MODERNISM

On a forced march thru Tokyo, I was stunned to have this building suddenly appear across a parking lot.  When you see something like this, it almost takes your breath away.  I call this...

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BARCELONA PAVILION

It’s underwhelming, the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies.  But in a good way.  It was as if the expectation of total perfection diluted the experience of perfection.  How can you experience perfection when you know...

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WHO WOULD HAVE LIKED TRANSPARENT DRAWING?

Corb, for one.  He of course considered himself a painter first.  And his daily painting was a basic exercise in composition, completion, balance, form, etc.  Admittedly his paintings were opaque.  Yet I think he...

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CROWN HALL HOMAGE

One of the themes that has developed in these pages is the worship of famous buildings. At first, I was not sure why I was compelled to draw famous buildings. But now I get...