Mies & Gaudi In Barcelona

Lecture 1 – “Less is More”

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“Less is more”

Mies & Gaudi in BarcelonaLudwig Mies van der Rohe & Antonio Gaudi

Mies

1929 - German Pavilion for the International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - German born architect Demolished in 1930 Rebuilt 1986 Steel frame, glass, and polished stone (onyx, marble, travertine)

The Barcelona Pavilion

“God is in the Details”

Farnsworth House

1950 - Plano, Illinois glass walls, travertine, and steel columns

Seagram Building

Park Ave. in New York 1954 steel frame with curtain

walls, and bronze exterior columns

One Charles Center 1963 - Baltimore City

Crown Hall

IIT- Illinois Institute of Technology

1956 Architectural school The roof suspends

from spanning I-beams

MeanwhileBack to Barcelona1929

Milwaukke Art MuseumSantiago Calatrava , architect

Frank Gehry

Guggenheim Museum, Bilboa, Spain

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angels California

Even on the Simpsons

Frank Lloyd WrightFallingwater, Bear Run, Pa.and “organic architecture”

Centre de Pompidou, Paris 1971 Richard Roger and Renzo Piano

European Court of Human Rights

“This space functions as an invitation to participate in a judicial vision.” Richard Rogers, 2001

Montevetro Luxury Housing, London

“The elevators climbing up this facade provide a play between the vertical and the horizontal. In this way the building offers a sculptural

quality and a strong sense of rticulation.” Richard Rogers

Millennium Dome Greenwich 2000

Louis I. Kahn, Architect

Salk Institute LaJolla, California 1959 -1966

Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas 1967 -1972

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