I have discovered Mies today, thanks to google. Mies vand der Rohe, the architect that so boldly dropped the ornaments, and gave us free flowing open spaces, all glass walls that make you feel like you are in the middle of the nature and also, and not without regret i say it, the glass skyscrapers. I can imagine how it must have felt back than to see one of these colossus shining in the sun, how it opened the entire building, i understand, but now i feel a bit suffocated with all the glass and steel buildings. I do wish some day, after having read more about it, to see their beauty also.
Knowing where it came from and how it developed makes so much difference, it breaks the barriers of common now- thinking. Cause it is so easy to just go with the flow, take for granted, not strive for change. He did it.
mies van der rohe in his apartment on
east pearson street, chicago, 1964
© werner blaser
Did you know that the poang chair is inspired by one of Mies’s Brno chair?
mies 1955
mies van der rohe sketching, 1960s
© hedrich-blessing
mies over model of crown hall
cortesy the illinois institute of technology
Just imagine this house after the War. Context, damn it. It must have been really striking. People have named it a temple hovering between heaven and earth.
Farnsworth House
Images: first four, fifth.









