Mies van der Rohe - Visions Of Space 1/7 (Less is More)

[Ferrazzano321]

Gaudi

[ktxed]

Frank's overrated.

[JetSetDiva]

Frank Lloyd Wright > (insert international style architect's name here)

[dassouki]

@JetSetDiva Mies Van Der Roe is American

[Kindred1a1]

seriously most epic intro to a documentary ever. So fitting.

If anybody knows the song, share :D

[Kindred1a1]

@Kindred1a1

nvm its called

"Visions of Space" by o2 (original music composers)

[angeloselarja93]

@Kindred1a1 what is the name of the song?

[enigma23011991]

less is abore !!!  .....venturi

[less01]

@enigma23011991 AND HE TOOK IT BACK!!!!! ;)

[justnotcricket]

thank you very much for uploading these videos. this series was believe it or not pivotal to my life when i first saw them, and for a while now i've been searching to see them again, to guage how much if any, my perspective of art has changed.

[macsm]

Without knowing a zilch of Architecture and not to put Mies down, I think a large part of his success as an influence in American city architecture is largely in part to the industrial connection, that relating to materials like steel, concrete and glass. What could have been closer to music in the ears of industrialists like U.S. steel and Oil giants as the enormous scale of the American buildings. It seems logical to me his style would have been preferred by the decision makers...

[SuperiFox]

@macsm but it isnt in many cases. his simplicity and bauhaus style is not seen everywhere in those all too common tacky suburbs. if it were, i would die for it.

[MrSueVeneer]

Mies admits Wright opened everyones eyes with the Wasmuth Portfolio.

[BlackSwanTactical]

I live in Chicago, worked in construction for many years. I use to spend my weekends sightseeing Chicago architecture and construction sites and taking pictures of the best. On one Mies van der Rohe tour, they told us that he was such a hard core architect that he had employees on the construction site for the inspection of bolt and rivet heads, and the heads had to be positioned the right way. If the heads were not correct, they had to be removed and reset!

[Divertedflight]

great looking buildings. but some of the ideology that goes with his work was just not put into practice.

Take the big one; "Form follows function'

He must have known that glass walls flush with the roof were going to suffer from mega condensation problems in the moist location of the Farnsworth house.

He even had the steel weld points ground flush to hide how it's held together.

The asthetics of form clearly came first with this building. Overriding many logical functional concerns.

[Divertedflight]

Anyone whom loves the appearance of his Seagram building (as Ido) must forgo any criticism of mock tudor buildings with their fake timber frames. As the Seagram building is guilty of exactly the same type of fakery.

The bronze I beams on the outside of of the building perform no function at all in supporting the structure.

They're just there because Van Der Rohe liked the asthetic of supporting metal frames. The real ones had to be covered with concrete, so he put fake ones on the outside.

[MsSophista]

does anyone have any idea what the music is in the beginning of the documentary? i would love to know. thanks.

[PuffetePuffete]

There are many good architects and they have always existed, but in addition to the usual well-known names, I would appoint a completely alien to the current star system: Carlo Scarpa, a true Master ... one of the few worthy of that title.

[rcam2000]

...He arose to become the most mundane architect of all time. Simply boring details, simply boring design. At least he was better than Corbu.

[ShootingSunday]

You know nothing of architecture if you believe the Master work of Mies Van der Rohe, loaded emblem of modernity, is boring let alone mundane. Peasant!

[rcam2000]

Oh no, some idiot on youtube didn't like what I posted, I'm soooo offended....Anyway, I am just paraphrasing what the narrator is clearly implying in the video series. You went to school and were told Mies was great, you ate into it and liked it. I choose to believe what I see as the truth behind his work. He introduced the com-modification of architecture, costing many architects today their job. It sounds like you know of the academic side of architecture, not the real side.

[ShootingSunday]

People in glass houses...

Clearly those lacking original thought like yourself need to embrace the "less is more" idealism embodied by our topic.

Perhaps an actual visit to one of Mr. Van der Rohe's less "boring" buildings would enlighten your non empirical "truth". i did not study arch, nor, as you so nimbly implied "ate into it". I visited his buildings, looking and seeing without prejudice. Let us not blame great works of art for the "com-modification" that follows. Who is the "idiot" now?

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[rcam2000]

Listen kid, I'm just agreeing with the narrator's comments. You can self-proclaim whatever you want on Youtube, good for you. I don't have the time to care what you say. blah, blah, blah, I'm out. later

[RuniToconillo]

Very informative, thanks.

[Architekt2]

1. Mies van der Rohe

2. Mario Botta

3.Victor Horta

[DarkHymperion]

top 3 :

- Renzo Piano

-Sant' Elia

-frank lloyd wright

[udoUpo]

3. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Less is More!

[Tiaktiak]

top 5.

1. le corbusier

2. frank lloyd wright

3. mies van der rohe

4.luis kahn

5.herzog und de meuron and tadao ando

[enotna42]

that's six.

[celticultural]

The 4 biggest egos in Architecture or the best?

[8888hh]

adolf loos

louis kahn

[thebigtubadaddy]

Great documentary. I think the narrator is a little harsh on the National Gallery but I think he is right about some of the architecture at IIT being a little bland.

[Fillip0]

with no doubt one of the top 5 architects of all time

[jtms9]

who are the others? :)

[simulachra]

Frank Lloyd Wright

[jtms9]

got more?

[simulachra]

le corbusier

[ssiilaass]

santiago calatrava

daniel libeskind

lord norman foster

gehry

zaha hadid

[insut07]

It was the ideal of the artist / architects like Walter Copius and Mies van der Rohe that modern man should live in simply designed houses with lots of light, adequate space and sanitation. As we know too well in the UK these projects were mostly failures... cutting cost by using small windows, tiny rooms, wrong "cheaper" materials which showed horrible water & rust marks and stingyness of councils to spend money on maintanence work has made inner cites of the UK eye sores.

[insut07]

If you go to the eastern Block countries " Albainia" for example, the same thing happend: Only the very wealthy and multinationals can afford the "Bauhaus"- Mies-ian ideal... heating and maintenance cost are too high. How do we move on???

[less01]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GODDDDDDDDDD haahaha THANK U SOOO MUCH ahahaha

[alNeon]

you see, less is more... :D

was not so much hard to find gaudi and mies, but arrch those were enormous mpeg files... so for visions-of-space big fans its wise to save flv copies... and yess, all three are excellent documentaries :)

[less01]

@alNeon are there any more episodes?

[alNeon]

@less01 as far as i know - no.. but if you find any, let me know, ok? :)