We are digitally connected in ways that have profoundly changed the way we work. The new workplace is more open, friendly and approachable. Worklife happens in spaces and places beyond the office, so what compels us to return to the office is a need for community. Staying connected is a driver for organizational culture and its spaces and products.
In this class we look at Frank Lloyd Wright's vacation home for Edgar Kaufmann in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, and Mies van der Rohe's vacation home for Dr. Edith Farnsworth in Plano, IL.
There is a tendency to think of the work of Mies van der Rohe as exercises in purist geometry, dry and mathematical. A May 2012 visit to newly restored Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, most easily recognized from its west façade (IMAGE 1) offered a clear reminder that although the precise and controlled layering seen in Mondrian paintings (IMAGE 2), Mies’ European work is also deeply involved with the transparency, reflectivity and ambiguity of Maholy Nagy. (IMAGES 3, 4, 5, 6,7)
The above is in addition to the unmistakable concern with the architecture of material and construction (Materiality) (IMAGE 8) which has been discussed with clarity and detail by Professor Ivo Hammer in several articles; or the effect of the understated entry (IMAGE () that begins the experiential drama resolving in the remarkable public spaces.
Since the 1970’s and before, there have been efforts in architectural and social criticism to discredit Modernism as simplistic and bland, cold and antihuman. The experiencing Villa Tugendhat, as well as Modern icons such as Villa Savoye (IMAGE10) and the Barcelona Pavilion (IMAGE 11) totally contradict these claims.
2. John Pawson提出了比
最简主义的祖师爷
LUDWIG MIES VAN
DER ROHE关于“LESS
IS MORE”更激进更简
约的最简主张,也就是
“ALMOST NOTHIGN IS
MORE,DOM PARTICK
OLIVE”
house in Germany
地理位置:德国柏林 John Pawson
建成时间:2003年 英国建筑师
建筑流派:极简主义