75 Years of Mies van der Rohe and His Chicago School

[@KerrieRedgate]

This is a fabulous historical record of the influence of Mies van der Rohe on the architecture of Chicago! Thank you so very much!

[@stephenmoerlein8470]

What a powerful legacy. Thanks for posting.

[@InsaneNuYawka]

I come back to this video every so often to inspire myself that order is not only possible but can be beautifully achieved.

[@SerhatYldz1]

"Architecture is a language, you can use it for normal purposes and you speak in pearls; if you are good, you speak a wonderful pearls; if you are really good, you can be a poet." MIES

[@davidaube5210]

The work of Mies Van der Rohe is truly inspiring! Even after all this time, it looks fresh and original. I got a Barcelona Chair replica from Barcelona Designs, hoping someday I could afford an original one, and I love how it looks. Truly a masterpiece.

[@captainernest4307]

From an IIT alumnus, many thanks.

[@modernsarasota]

So good - thanks for making this informative and inspiring video.

[@BuildingsOnDemand]

Thank you for taking the time to put this together, enjoyed it.

[@rogerb5615]

Boxes, boxes, boxes. Windows that froze on their inner surfaces. Near-zero storage space. Wow.

[@to-qw1rw]

Thank you for uploading. That thing to know from this video,today's buildings were already build in first half of 20c. Mies is true creator of modernism architecture...

[@rajendratrivedi2374]

Thank you, it helped me very much in my project.

[@BGTuyau]

Nice survey. Chicago is definitely Mies' kind of town.

[@mox.kartal]

this video made me appreciate frank lloyd wright even more

[@xtusvincit5230]

FLW did modern architecture with the human in mind, familiar materials, warm colors, perfectly planned sight lines. MVdR was oriented toward industrial scales and materials that were cold and inhuman, oppressive and soulless.

[@mox.kartal]

@@xtusvincit5230 I don't think that thing are that simple..I also prefer Wright..but for me for example Rohe's Barselona pavillion is a masterpiece and i can find there human scale, familiar materials, warm colors, perfectly planned sight lines...there arent enough architecture objects with that complexity in his complete ouvre to consider him better than Wright or anyone else...Majority of his work is really expressionless and sterile..Wright on the other hand was force of nature and through all his career produced magnificent objects...some of them are similar to one another but all of them are with consideration to the environment and aesthetically pleasing..What is interesting that during the 30s and 40s Wright was considered somehow inferior to Mies, Le Corbusier and european modernists..but now almost century letter we can see that Wright is more beloved than whenever and that common people have bigger and bigger disdain for modernist architecture....some try to "solve" that by returning to classicism or something..but I think that that is mistake and that Wright could be great inspiration for new step in arhitecture opposed to domminance of faceless commercial, office buildings that made almost all cities to look the same Cheers :)

[@xtusvincit5230]

@@mox.kartal It is not only a question of scale. Humand are curvy organic sft beings who comprehend implicitly lintels and arches and slopes and trusses. So the hard cold colorless industrial design my pique the mind without actually drawing a person to enter.

[@margroningen]

Mies van der Rohe: the King of architect kingdom.

[@louis290663]

He was ahead on his time.

[@chrisk8187]

Born, raised, educated, employed, married and raised two children in the Milwaukee area since '47. My mother, a Northwestern University honors graduate, who was a music teacher in Winnetka school system and as was her sister who was the superintendent of art education in Evanston, met and married her MIT mechanical engineering degreed husband who was working in Chicago. They moved to Milwaukee and I was born in '47. I grew up visiting Chicago with my parents when they they would visit their friends and to enjoy the city. I've carried that on ever since, enjoying the culture and architecture. I've viewed and have been in many of the buildings shown in the video. Very interesting presentation of his works and the examples of the Chicago School legacy. Thanks for the reminiscence.

[@b.victoradams9346]

Time Life was not 1945 and of course Montgomery Ward Residences is a rehab tower that was originally designed by Minoru Yamasaki.

[@perilouspete]

great video. does anyone know what the song is at the end?

[@luizffadellou]

Where can I get this pictures?

[@winnielwy8374]

pearls or prose?

[@ashnabarzngy9581]

relly nice

[@humbertomartinez2339]

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[@Martinmarshallmargella]

less is more God is in the detail. Fancy :)

[@xtusvincit5230]

But, he was wrong. More is less when it is frivoless and meaningless like Victorian gingerbread. But more is more when it is thoughtful and oriented toward human use. With MVdR you get less is less.

[@Tidnull]

mies did a great job of designing cold, dead buildings that no one enjoys spending time in.

[@sartoresartus]

That's demonstrably not true, you can just do a survey.

[@xtusvincit5230]

His large scale buildings were foreboding, oppressive and inhuman. This man brought his dark German soul to most everything he did.

[@A_Realist]

The most overrated buildings I’ve ever seen. They’re just boxes, brutalism at its finest haha