After I reported about Mies van der Rohe, I started to admire him as an aspiring architect. I was moved by his famous quotations which was "Less is more" and "God is in the details." I can tell that Rohe was really after for perfection. Sir Jim was right; unlike in Baroque, Romanesque and Gothic Architecture, which they can just put massive ornaments on its structures to make it beautiful., van der Rohe thought that details was the most important part of the design. He didn't needed ornaments and other architectural elements, he just gave all his sight on the details.
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| Technological Institute of Illinois |
When you look at his statements "Less is more" and "God is in the details", you would think that it's kind of contrary to one another because when you say details, it's about decorations and all. But he was saying that, in that less details that you give, you must take full hands on it. Details are important, and you should work on them perfectly. He wasn't saying that he loved details, in fact he hated it.
He also take pride of his work by neglecting the offer the Nazis gave him, which the Nazis wanted higher and taller buildings, which something van der Rohe wasn't good at that time.
In my own insights, van der Rohe was a minimalist. Based on the structures that I've researched before, his sky scrappers are like the basic sky scrapers that we see, rectangular, with grids; his houses were just in a shape of a box and he'd just add up glass in to it.
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| National Museum in Berlin Germany |
van der Rohe was really obsessed with glass and steel. He really wanted to emphasize the transparency of a building. He got this idea staring at a stained glass when he was still a choir boy, he was fascinated about how glass fitted will in the grids of the glass.
As a teacher, he was a trial and error type of teacher. One student of him said that "He taught us by not teaching". He wanted his students to learn the different languages of Architecture in their own terms.
He was also an interior designer.
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