Architecture

Architecture

Disney Concert HallFrank O. Gehry,Los Angeles 2003

A symphony in steel

The Walt Disney Concert hall will be a feast for your eyes, ears, and spirits.
- Gil Garcetti

I run into metal because it allows you building a building that captures the sculpture in its same materialand it seems its working well

- Frank O. Ghery

Seagram BuildingMies Van der Rohe,New York 1958

is in - Mies Van Der RoheGoddetails

In an era of innovation, he was a disciplinarian. He found shapes for the new possibilities of glass and steel, and the architecture of the world has never been the same since. TIME magazine, Aug 1969

Mies purifiesand purifies till,as at Seagram, he makes the paradigm for America's tall building.

- Philip Johnson

Less is more Mies Van der Rohe

Seagram PlazaA hole in the middle of the crowded streets

Mies creates a square that welcomes New Yorkers giving them a chance to stop and relax.Only a great architect would have ever achieved such an ambitious aim. Franz Schulze

Federal Center

Mies Van der Rohe,Chicago 1960

IBM Plaza,Mies Van der Rohe, Chicago 1967

I dont want to be original, I want to be good

I want my works to connect to the surrounding though they must differ. One has to live the spirit of his time

Crown HalL

Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture

Mies Van der Rohe,Chicago 1956

"Crown Hall departs from the module that Mies established for the campus in his master plan. As a result, it...becomes what Mies called representational...[which] must declare the highest purposes and ideals of the institution.- Kevin Harrington, AIA Guide to Chicago

Farnsworth HouseMies Van Der Rohe, Plano 1951

the emptinessI sometimes find so hard to fill

skin and bones

Fragments

New York City

Brooklyn Bridge, July 4th 2008

September 11 2006

Ground Zero

July 4th 2008

Park Avenue Seagram PlazaDecember 2007

Nevada

Hoover Dam,built in1935

London

The city and theSwiss Re tower by Norman FosterPiccadilly Circus,Chinese New Years Eve 2007

St. Pauls Cathedraland the Millenium Bridge

Mykonos

Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace, -- Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!Lord Byron, Don Juan 1824