A propósito del post de Klaus ( y del doodle de google), una pequeña mención para uno de los pocos tipos que admiro,
Una pena para mi que se recuerde a semejante animal arquitectónico con el Crown Hall del IIT, que repite ampliado el concepto de espacio que ya había plasmado en la Casa Farnsworth , que después se repetiría (quizá perfeccionado) en la Neue Nationalgalerie y no con un proyecto total y absolutamente revolucionario como su edificio de Friedrichstasse, de 1921.
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Eh... ese edificio es de 1921?
"On almost any day of the week, around lunchtime, a massive man will climb up the delicate white steel and travertine staircase of the Chicago Arts Club. Although he now walks with a limp (due to recurring attacks of atthritis) and, generally, has to can on a cane, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe seems remarkably nimble for his weight and age.
His clothes are extremely elegant; most of his suits were tailored by Knize and make him look slim and agile. He is, indeed, something of a dandy in a subdued way; there is generally a very soft, very expensive handkerchief trailing out of his breast pocket, and he obviously likes fine quality in all his personal belongings.
Yet there is nothing dandified about his features: his head looks as if it had been chiseled out of a block of granite; his face, infinitely lined, has the massively aristocratic look of a wealthy Dutch burgher by Rembrandt. As he walks across the generous space of the Arts Club, which he designed in 1951. Mies -as everyone has learned to call him- may notice an acquaintance or greet a friend. When he does, his shy face suddenly lights up in a charming, rather toothy grin, and he may even say a word or two in a deep, hesitant voice. Later, after a couple of Martinis and lunch, Mies will put one of his huge cigars, relax, and even talk. It will then be about 2 pm Chicago time, and Mies will be ready to start on a new day in earnest".
Peter Blake
The Master Builders
Mies van der Rohe - The Mastery of Structure - p. 167/168
reissued 1996
Norton & Company
Salud, genio!!!!
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