Comments on: Mies van der Rohe, Rem Koolhaas and Santiago Calatrava https://www.editkid.com/blog/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava/ 2.0, the next level Sat, 22 Jun 2013 19:20:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: littletinyfish https://www.editkid.com/blog/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava/#comment-402 littletinyfish Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:17:26 +0000 http://peterdekkers.com/bobble/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava#comment-402 I live in Milwaukee and the Calatrava Art Museum is certainly the pride of the city. Watching the wings rise is staggering and viewing the lake from the inside is breath taking. If you’re ever in Milwaukee to view it, I’ll lend you my couch for the night.

]]> By: lollo https://www.editkid.com/blog/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava/#comment-401 lollo Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:57:01 +0000 http://peterdekkers.com/bobble/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava#comment-401 mies er mejo

]]> By: Edward Lifson https://www.editkid.com/blog/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava/#comment-400 Edward Lifson Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:12:05 +0000 http://peterdekkers.com/bobble/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava#comment-400 I live in a Mies, at 880 N. Lake Shore Drive. It is uplifting, spiritual, poetic, responsible, and beyond. The comments of Giles are wise.

All best to you,
-Edward Lifson

]]> By: pea https://www.editkid.com/blog/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava/#comment-399 pea Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:49:18 +0000 http://peterdekkers.com/bobble/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava#comment-399 Thanks for the great insight, Giles. In the new light it sheds I’ve come to review my statement. Although I still feel that many people have poorly imitated Mies’ work, losing touch with craftmanship.

I’ve had the fortune of visiting the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, a building by van der Rohe. It does indeed breathe elegance in a way I’ve not experienced in many other buildings.

Now I’m wondering if I should edit my original text. First I’ll read up about Brutalism and the other things you mentioned. Thanks again.

]]> By: Giles https://www.editkid.com/blog/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava/#comment-398 Giles Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:45:17 +0000 http://peterdekkers.com/bobble/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava#comment-398 By the way Tati’s satire was directed at Brutalism & Corbusier not Mies who produced little domestic architecture.

]]> By: Giles https://www.editkid.com/blog/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava/#comment-397 Giles Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:41:57 +0000 http://peterdekkers.com/bobble/77/mies-van-der-rohe-rem-koolhaas-and-santiago-calatrava#comment-397 I don’t agree with those comments about Mies. There was a division in modernism that was mediated by WW2. Mies represents humane modernism, his buildings are elegant, transparent & value human craftsmanship as you can see in the details of his work. The Brutalism instigated by Corbusier is more responsible for the alienating quality of much Urbanism. IMO because the importance of scale/space was sublimated to extreme economic rationalisations & the absence of the human mark which modernists like Mies or Loos never lost sight of. Fortunately those values were reinstated by Eames, Koolhas & Neutelings.

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