Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886 1969 in Germany ARCH 350 Spring 2015 Maki Iisaka Less is more Riehl House Potsdam Germany 1907 Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Foto Maximilian Meisse Karl Schinkel Altesmuseum Berlin 1823 28 2 9 2015 1 Hendrik Berlage Amsterdam Stock Exchange Amsterdam 1897 1903 What interested me most in Berlage was his careful construction honest to the bone And his spiritual attitude had nothing to do with classicism nothing with historic styles altogether After Berlage I had to fight with myself to get away from the classicism of Schinkel from Jean Louis Cohen Mies van der Rohe p 20 Photos http www geheugenvannederland nl nl homepage We consider it our noblest duty to dedicate our best energies to the moral reconstruction of a new free Germany draft of Novembergruppe Manifesto 1918 Project for a skyscraper on Friedrichstrasse Berlin 1921 On the Skyscraper Project Published in Fruehlicht 1 no 4 1922 p 122 124 The best that can be said for such buildings is that they have great size yet they should be more than a manifestation of our technical ability Above all we must try not to solve new problem with traditional forms it is far better to derive new forms from the essence the very nature of the new problem From Schultz and Windhorst Mies van der Rohe p 65 My experiements with a glass model helped me along the way and I soon recognized that by employing glass it is not an effect of light and shadow one wants to achieve but a rich interplay of light reflections From Naumeyer The Artless Word p 240 2 9 2015 2 Form as goal is formalism and we reject that Nor do we strive for a style The will to style is also formalistic M v d R In the journal G Brick Country House project 1923 Mosler House 1924 1926 Two Projects in Potsdam Neubabelsberg Germany Brick Country House project 1923 Theo van Doesburg Russian Dance 1918 Weissenhof Estate Stuttgart 1925 1927 The Deutscher Werkbund proposed that an exhibition be held in 1927 in order to demonstrate the latest thinking in design interior fittings and construction technology As the vice president of the Werkbund Mies van der Rohe was put in charge of developing a master plan for the housing colony He also contributed the design of an apartment block 17 architects were invited to design 21 buildings Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret Single House and Double House at the Weissenhof Estate 2 9 2015 3 Weissenhofsiedlung Stuttgart 1925 1927 Memorandum from the Mayor of Stuttgart to the president of the Deutscher Werkbund Efficiency measures in all areas of our lives do not stop where housing is at issue The economic conditions of today prohibit any kind of waste and demand the maximum effect with minimum amount of means requiring the implementation of such materials and technological appliances which will lead to lower building and operational costs and will lead to a simplification of households and to improvements of living itself http www weissenhof2002 de english weisse nhof html Invited architects included Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret bottom and top left Mart Stam top right Peter Behrens Walter Gropius and Bruno and Max Taut Photos David Kerr Row houses by J J P Oud at Weissenhof Estate The plan is irrational arts and craftsy and dilettantish Paul Bonatz Kochenhof Estate http www kochenhof siedlung de index2 html 2 9 2015 4 Many of the projects in the Weissenhof Estate were featured in the MoMA Museum of Modern Art exhibition curated by Henry Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in New York City in 1932 The catalogue was called The International Style Architecture since 1922 2 9 2015 5 http www moma org explore collection index Tugendhat House Brno Czech Republic 1928 1930 Photos David idlick http www tugendhat eu Photo from http www tugendhat eu Photo from http www tugendhat eu 2 9 2015 6 Mies and Lilly Reich presented their concept of fluid or undivided space at the Berlin Fashion Exhibition in 1927 Photos from http www tugendhat eu Photos from http www tugendhat eu Drawing from http www moma org explore collection index Photos David Kerr http www moma org explore collection index 2 9 2015 7 2 9 2015 8 Photo by Fritz Tugendhat http www tugendhat eu Photos from http www tugendhat eu Lecture 5 The Phenomenon of TRANSPARENCY ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M 24 The Modern Avant Garde explored the question of space time in art and architecture via formal and plastic means For example the free flow of a line the dynamic composition of elemental forms the superposition and layering of planes in space the simultaneity of multiple viewpoints ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M 25 Excerpts from Colin Rowe Robert Slutzky s essay on Transparency Transparency means a simultaneous perception of different spatial locations Space not only recedes but fluctuates in a continuous activity Rowe Slutzky quoting Gyorgy Kepes ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M 26 Vase Face 1748 Nolli Map of Rome ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M 27 2 9 2015 9 2 9 2015 ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M Moholy Nagy Untitled Photogram 1922 Moholy Nagy Compostion A II 1924 28 ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M Gyorgy Kepes Language of Vision 1944 29 ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M 30 10 Charles Edouard Jeanneret Gris a k a Le Corbusier Purist Paintings c 1918 Purism is the name of the painting style devised by Le Corbusier and Amad e Ozenfant in their manifesto Apr s Le Cubisme After Cubism 1918 a critique of the allegedly disorderly painting style of Cubism ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M 31 ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M Rowe Slutz ky p 168 32 ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M Le Corbusier Villa Stein at Garches France 1927 33 2 9 2015 11 2 9 2015 12 ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M 34 ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M 35 ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M View of terrace36 ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas A M 37 1 Villa La Roche in Paris 1923 2 Villa Stein at Garches France 1927 3 House in Stuttgart Germany 1927 4 Villa Savoye in Poissy France 1929 The exterior expresses the ideal and the interior satisfies functional needs Le Corbusier Four Compositions 1929 Le Corbusier s typological analysis of his own houses showing the dialectical relation between platonic form and functional needs ARCH 350 Dr Sarah Deyong Texas 38 A M 2 9 2015 13