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 GENERAL MEANING
LESS COMPLICATED IS BETTER UNDERSTOOD AND MORE
APPRECIATED THAN WHAT IS MORE COMPLICATED.
SIMPLICITY IS PREFERABLE TO COMPLEXITY.

ARCHITECTURAL MEANING
BUILDING SHOULD BE STRIPPED OF ANY EXTRAS AND
CONSTRUCTED ON ESSENTIALS OF CLARITY, UTILITY AND EFFECT.

•SIMPLE VOLUMES GARDEN AND SEA WEEK-END HOUSE

• BALANCE BETWEEN EMPTY AND DESIGNED BY TAKAO SHIOTSUKA
•TO BASE THE ARCHITECTURAL •ELIMINATE VISUAL CLUTTER. FILLED SPACE.
EXPRESSION ON ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
OF A STRUCTURE.

•THIS WAS DONE BY SUPPRESSING THE

•LIKE FOR VAN DER ROHE THE
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS WERE THE
CLADDING AND STEEL FRAME WHICH
HE CALLED THE SKIN AND BONES OF A
STRUCTURE.
SECONDARY ELEMENTS LIKE …..OF A
BUILDINGS AND THERBY HEIGHTEN
THE VISUAL IMPACT OF A SPACE OR
VIEW.

SHIMADA HOUSE DESIGNED DANCING LIVING HOUSE DESIGNED

FAMOUS ARCHITECT MIES VAN DER ROHE USED THIS PHRASE
BY A.L.X TOKYO BY A.L.X ARCHITECT
TO DESCRIBE HOW HE THOUGHT BUILDINGS SHOULD BE CONSTRUCTED.
INSPIRATIONS- THE PRUSSIAN ARCHITECT KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL, USE
OF POST AND LINTEL CONSTRUCTION,DUTCH DE STIJL PHILOSPHY OF
SIMPLICITY IN
ARCHITECTURE AND RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM TO BENEFIT SOCITY.
AIMS-ESTABILISHMENT OF A NEW ARCHITECTURAL STYLE FOR MODERN
TIMES AND ARCHITECTURE WITH A MINIMAL FRAMEWORK OF
STRUCTURAL ORDER BALANCED AGAINST THE IMPLIED FREEDOM OF FREE
FLOWING OPEN SPACES

A LOFT IN NEW YORK DESIGNED BY

SOURCES DINING AREA WITH MINIMUM ARCHITECT CLAUDIO SILVESTRIN. ABSTRACT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe DESIGN ELEMENTS OR MINIMALIST. LIGHT, GEOMETRICAL
http://new-design-times.com/article/articleC47.php?ID=47
FORMS AND NATURAL MATERIAL ARE KEY
POINTS IN HIS STYLE .
 PURE AND OPEN SKIN AND BONES"
BARCELONA PAVILION:1928-29
ARCHITECTURE
•DESIGNED FOR INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION IN 1929.
•WAS DESTROYED IN 1930 AND REBUILT IN 1986.
•“VOICE TO THE SPIRIT OF A NEW ERA.”
CLARITY AND ELEMENTS OF DESIGN FUNCTION •MEANT TO REPRESENT A NEW, MODERN, AND INTERNATIONAL GERMANY.
SIMPLICITY BY MIES VANDER ROHE •CLARITY, SIMPLICITY AND HONESTY.”
•CONCEPT-FREE PALN AND FLOATING ROOF

INDUSTRIAL STEEL FREE-FLOWING

AND PLATE GLASS OPEN SPACE

U SHAPED ENCLOSURE SERVE AS WATER BASIN AND CONNECTS

INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. ONE OF THE ENCLOSURE HAS WORLD
FAMOUS STATUE

A SEQUENCE OF MARBLE AND GLASS SIMPLICITY OF CONSTRUCTION, CLARITY

WALLS,SUPPLEMENTED BY CHROMED
COLUMNS,
SUPPORT A FLAT ROOF, WHICH SEEMS
TO
FLOAT ABOVE THE SPACE.
OF TECTONIC MEANS, AND PURITY
OF MATERIALS HAVE ABOUT THEM T
HE GLOW OF PRISTINE BEAUTY

WALL SURFACES DISPLACED SIMPLE RECTANGULAR

AGAINST EACH OTHER, RUNNING FLOOR PLAN WITH TRAVERTINE
PAST EACH OTHERS CONTINOUS PLINTH
TURNABOUTS FOR VISITORS

REFLECTIVE COLUMNS APPEAR TO BE ONLY A GLASS SKIN AND GLASS WALLS CAN
SOURCES
http://www.jasonmkelly.com/2013/09/30/mies-van-der-rohe-barcelona-pavilion/ STRUGGLING TO HOLD THE "FLOATING" REVEAL THE SIMPLE STRUCTURAL FORM OF
http://architecture.about.com/od/architectsaz/p/vanderrohe.htm ROOF PLANE DOWN, NOT THE SKELETAL FAME AND ENSURE ITS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Pavilion#Concept
TO BE BEARING ITS WEIGHT ARCHITECTONIC POSSIBILITIES
1950:FARNSWORTH HOUSE, PLANO, ILLINOIS
THE SEPARATION OF THE HOUSE FROM THE
LAND ON WHICH IT SITS BY PILLARS HAS BEEN
ASSOCIATED WITH AN IDEA OF PURITY, VERY
TRADITIONAL JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE
STEEL, LAMINATED GLASS PLATES
AND ROMAN TRAVERTIINE ON
FLOOR
AND DECK
A WEEKEND RETREAT OUTSIDE CHICAGO FOR AN INDEPENDENT
PROFESSIONAL WOMAN - DR. EDITH FARNSWORTH. BUILT BETWEEN
1946 AND 1951.
AREA- 1,500-square-foot (140 m2)
A CENTRAL WOOD CORE CONTAINS SANITARY
FACILITIES AND CREATES A SEPARATION
BETWEEN THE KITCHEN,TWO BEDROOMS AND
THE LIVING ROOM.
GLAZING OF THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE
ALLOWS ONE TO PERCEIVE THE LANDSCAPE
IN WHICH IT IS INSERTED, BUIILDING AS PART
OF NATURE
.
THE PLATFORM IS NOT THE FOCAL POINT;
IT IS THE EMPTINESS AND BEAMS WORK
LIKE SCREEN TO SURROUND SPACE OF
HOUSE.
IT HAS ALREADY BEEN INDICATED
THAT IT LACKS AIR CONDITIONING
AND THUS IN THE WARM
SEASONS, PRODUCES
GREENHOUSE EFFECT.
THE DOMESTIC PLUMBING ELEMENTS
AND ALSO THE RAINWATER RUN-OFF NO NATURAL VENTILATION
SPILL INTO A CENTRAL CIRCLUAR FOR CORE AREA
CHEST
SEAGRAM BUILDING,
•THE BUILDING STANDS 515 FEET (157 M) TALL WITH 38
STORIES,
•COMPLETED IN 1958.
•IT STANDS AS ONE OF THE FINEST EXAMPLES OF
THE FUNCTIONALIST AESTHETIC AND A MASTERPIECE OF
CORPORATE MODERNISM.
•IT WAS DESIGNED AS THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE
CANADIAN DISTILLERS JOSEPH E. SEAGRAM'S & SONS.

MATERIALS
•CURTAIN WALL OF GLASS AND BRONZE IN THE FRONT DUE TO
THE FIRE LAW IN FORCE IN 1954, AT THE TIME OF CONCRETE MAIN BUILDING
THE OFFICE SPACES ABOVE THE LOBBY,
CONSTRUCTION WAS USED AS A STRUCTURAL MATERIAL, BOTH
FURNISHED BY PHILIP JOHNSON, HAVE
OUTSIDE AND INSIDE.
FLEXIBLE FLOOR PLANS LIT WITH
LUMINOUS CEILING PANELS.
THESE FLOORS ALSO GET MAXIMUM
•ELEVATION OF THE NATURAL LIGHTING WITH THE EXTERIOR
BUILDING ACHIEVES BEING GLASS PANES OF GRAY TOPAZ THAT
ITS EXPRESSIVE PROVIDE FLOOR-TO-CEILING WINDOWS
PERFECTION,AND IS FOR THE OFFICE SPACES. PLAZA
VERTICALLY
EMPHASIZED..

•IT IS A RECTANGULAR BUILDING

SUPPORTED ON PILES

BLINDS
IT WAS EVIDENT THAT A BUILDING OF SUCH
HEIGHT WOULD HAVE A HUGE AREA OF BLINDS,
WHOSE USERS TEND TO UPLOAD OR
DOWNLOAD THEM AS THEY LIKED.
SOURCES- www.wikipedia/seagram.org
www.archdaily.com
1951: LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENTS, CHICAGO
• 860–880 LAKE SHORE DRIVE IS A TWIN PAIR OF GLASS-AND-STEEL APARTMENT TOWERS ON N. LAKE SHORE
DRIVE ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN IN THE STREETERVILLE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
• CONSTRUCTION BEGAN IN 1949 AND THE PROJECT WAS COMPLETED IN 1951.
• THE 26 FLOOR, 254 FT (82 M) TALL TOWERS WERE DUBBED AS THE "GLASS HOUSE" APARTMENTS.
• THE TOWERS WERE NOT ENTIRELY ADMIRED AT THE TIME THEY WERE BUILT, YET THEY WENT ON TO BE THE
PROTOTYPE FOR STEEL AND GLASS SKYSCRAPERS WORLDWIDE.

APARTMENTS EMBODY A MODERNISTIC TONE

WITH THEIR VERTICALITY, GRIDS OF STEEL AND
GLASS CURTAIN WALLS (A HALLMARK OF MIES’
SKYSCRAPERS), AND COMPLETE LACK
OF ORNAMENTATION INDICATING MIES’ MOTTO
OF “LESS IS MORE”.

THE MULLIONS ON BUILDING

REFLECT THE INNER
STRUCTURE AND GIVE
TRUTH TO THE AESTHETIC OF
THE BUILDING.

LARGE LIVING AREAS

NO NATURAL LIGHT
SOURCES –www.wikipedia.lakeshore/com AND VENTILATION HAS BEEN
www.mies.buildings/lakeshore.org PROVIDED TO CORE AREAS
ASSOCIATED STYLES
ARCHITECTURAL STYLES FOLLOWED ALONG THE LINES OF LESS IS MORE
INTERNATIONAL STYLE Major Contributors to the International Style
THE MOST COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF
INTERNATIONAL STYLE BUILDINGS ARE SAID TO BE –
VILLA SAVOYE-- LE CORBUSIER o WALTER GROPIUS
o RECTILINEAR FORMS o LOUIS KAHN
o LIGHT, TAUT PLANE SURFACES THAT HAVE BEEN o LE CORBUSIER
COMPLETELY STRIPPED OF APPLIED ORNAMENTATION AND o LUDWIG MIES VAN DER
DECORATION. ROHE
o OPEN INTERIOR SPACES. o I.M. PEI
o A VISUALLY WEIGHTLESS QUALITY ENGENDERED BY THE USE o LLOYD WRIGHT
OF CANTILEVER CONSTRUCTION.
o GLASS AND STEEL, IN COMBINATION WITH USUALLY LESS
VISIBLE REINFORCED CONCRETE, ARE THE CHARACTERISTIC
MATERIALS OF THE CONSTRUCTION.
Bauhaus -Walter
THE TRANSPARENCY OF BUILDINGS, CONSTRUCTION (CALLED THE Gropius
HONEST EXPRESSION OF STRUCTURE), AND ACCEPTANCE OF
INDUSTRIALIZED MASS-PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES CONTRIBUTED
TO THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE'S DESIGN PHILOSOPHY.

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PERISTEIN HALL
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY
Seagram Building LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
New York City