Chats on architecture

18 minutes agoAnuj Daga

poetic modernism

how does that sound?

really?

he told me he met hejduk

18 minutes agoFriend

actually all the modernists had a poetic edge about them

18 minutes agoAnuj Daga

ummm

explain

17 minutes agoFriend

like I guess the poetic thing you are getting in the forms...but if you see drawings of these people...they were poetic when they drew

guess you'll have put yourself in their shoe

17 minutes agoAnuj Daga

someone told me that modernism wasnt about form at all

16 minutes agoFriend

well it was a response...to past

lets say modernist shed all the symbolic facades

15 minutes agoAnuj Daga

what kind of response?

15 minutes agoFriend

but then while sheding they adopted a symbol

if you'll see hejduk's drawings you'll find very strong shapes

13 minutes agoAnuj Daga

true

but he also made very free flowing shapes

his wall house?

remember?

12 minutes agoFriend

yea...but you see best way to study modernism would be to study flw...who simply rubbished international architecture lead corbu n all

but if you see flw also never adopted ornamentation

11 minutes agoAnuj Daga

interesting

didnt he?

i think he did

11 minutes agoFriend

and while going through all the works of his from past...they were forms volume...one leading to other

11 minutes agoFriend

and mies adopted from flw

11 minutes agoAnuj Daga

flw probably influenced every one who followed him

heheh

but how did mies adopt flw?

9 minutes agoFriend

I'll have to find a peace where adolf loos, flw are mentioned with mies

Mies anyway left germany to work in USA

piece

9 minutes agoAnuj Daga

aha

9 minutes agoFriend

where FLW worked

you'll see a video of flw roaming in a cart with a journalist rubbishing a mies building

7 minutes agoAnuj Daga

hahaha

where is this

i want to see

7 minutes agoFriend

its a complete series of movie made on flw

like they make on architect

the independent walls ceilings of mies was influenced by flw

4 minutes agoFriend

After 1923, Mies's style shifted, and he came heavily under the influence of Dutch neo-plasticism and Russian suprematism. The former influence, along with the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, drove Mies to experiment with independent walls and ceilings arranged in an open, pin-wheeling manner. The latter influence drove Mies to consider the reduction and abstraction of these elements into dynamic and contrapuntal compositions of pure shapes in space. Mies was enthralled with the free-flowing spaces of inter-connected rooms which encompass their outdoor surroundings as demonstrated by the open floor plans of the American Prairie Style work of Frank Lloyd Wright. These experiments culminated in one of Mies van der Rohe's most significant works, the German Pavilion built for the Barcelona World Exposition in 1929.

about a minute agoAnuj Daga

that was crisp summary

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