Mies van der Rohe

[Col Wolfe]

He would have been 126 today

a true modernist

my hero

http://redingote.fr/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/61926-050-F98DB706-1024x822.jpg

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/images/jpgs/chicago/farnsworth_house_gmad06_3.jpg
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/images/jpgs/chicago/barcelona_pavilion_13.jpg
http://willpreman.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/mies-van-der-rohe-2.jpg

[Col Wolfe]

http://inceptor.mcs.suffolk.edu/~goldenth/hw5/miesrohe.jpg

[Ian Townsend]

I remember a fellow student at art college thirty years ago saying how timeless the Barcelona pavilion was. It's now thirty years later and the words are still true.

Cool stuff. :cool:

[Gingham Kitchen]

Mies rocks. On a related note, I have a 'This Is Not The Universe' blog post coming up in the next couple of days about Basil Spence.

[Sean_Beat]

http://inceptor.mcs.suffolk.edu/~goldenth/hw5/miesrohe.jpg

Have always considered the Brno to be more iconic. Certainly easier to find and afford anyway!

Best, Sean

http://www.lifeinteriors.com.au/Images/Mies_Brno_Chair_Tubular_Pic3.jpg

[Col Wolfe]

Mies rocks. On a related note, I have a 'This Is Not The Universe' blog post coming up in the next couple of days about Basil Spence.

top stuff (http://thisisnottheuniverse.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/god-comes-to-midlands.html), GK

I would guess a church near to where I work is a Basil Spence (but on a smaller scale). Not the best pic, unfortunately.
The minimalist spire is way more imposing. I want to live in it.

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/60/94/609482_c1a8d5d6.jpg

[Ian Townsend]

Another Basil. Duncanrig Senior School.
In the 50s it must've felt like something strange had landed in the village.

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u177/Pattrick_104_2007/duncarrig_school-1.jpg

[Col Wolfe]

and recently.... :(

http://glaswegian.info/Images-of-Scotland/images/Images-of-Scotland---Duncanrig-High-School-East-Kilbride.jpg

[Ian Townsend]

and recently.... :(

http://glaswegian.info/Images-of-Scotland/images/Images-of-Scotland---Duncanrig-High-School-East-Kilbride.jpg
:( Sad. That's another one ripe for Urban Exploration then...

[Gingham Kitchen]

Have you checked out the Smithson's school at Hunstanton, Ian? Modernism and education, should be right up your strasse!

[M.O.T.]

Have you checked out the Smithson's school at Hunstanton, Ian? Modernism and education, should be right up your strasse!

I spent 2 years there!
Mister Gooch used to call it brutalism at its bestial best but I just remember it as being blooming freezing all the time!
C ♫ ♪ ♫

[Ian Townsend]

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u177/Pattrick_104_2007/mad_men_mies_zps06ce9451.jpg (http://s168.photobucket.com/user/Pattrick_104_2007/media/mad_men_mies_zps06ce9451.jpg.html)

From Mad Men to Mies: Why Modernism Holds Sway (http://www.archdaily.com/220794/from-mad-men-to-mies-why-modernism-holds-sway/)