next to jail 2 courthouse[s]

1959: dirksen and kluzinski federal buildings in chicago by mies.
[seagram was the prototype]
the photos are from the dirksen one

monday morning

today i found a surprise on my desk at the office:
it was an article by alice t.friedman about the relationship between architect-client regarding the farnsworth house:

"she soon discovered that what mies wanted, and what he thought he had found in her, was a patron who would put her budget and her needs aside in favor of his own goals and dreams as an architect"

and about mies's struggle:

"mies's reputation was impressive and his work has admired in elite and academic circles, but he needed exposure- he needed to built. dr edith farnsworth seemed to be the answer to his prayers"

i could not read the whole article, it looks interesting and i guess there are plenty of things to argue about...
but i have some questions:

is it always the same? between the 2 [client-architect]?
is it possible that mies felt like needing to built?

a respond to the 2nd:
i spent 2 years in an entire campus designed by mies.
and now i work in an area downtown with quite few buildings from mies around me!
so, there is hope for architects!
i end up with my favorite motto:
NICE DAYS ARE COMING*
=]

*[for those who have not built yet]

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and more on bee-zee favorites...

mies is missing...

...from his 120th birthday party in crowhall!!!
day:2006.03.02:

_gift=a LEGO version of mies-skyscraper [not sears or...?though]:

_similar to the LEGO version of "ugly duckling"...

quantity:514 bricks
time:3.5 hours
day:2005.04.02

...made by a professional LEGO builder to mark the special day of hans christian andersen's birthday.

lsd: mies

_2nd[and last]february birthday party [of r+n] on friday 25:




_860 N. Lake Shore Dr, Apt 17K:


_few friends did not show up this year ;) :

m&m-M&M

kevin harrington's lecture on minerals and metals research [often called: m&m] building* on february 22:


_m&m candy: hard exterior-soft interior.
[iit lectures are famous for their huge soft cookies that they dissapear before the importnat people arrive!
this time there were only m&m ones!]




_m&m building: "hard" clear elevation- soft "free" interior.
[a clearly organized system to host activities that change over time.]


_m&m building is a building in process. not exactly transitional.
but mies made various("over+over") drawings in order to pick the optimum one.
there was strength in all of them and he was studying them comparitavely.


_myself the night of the lecture!!!


_the space without the event


_empty studio after friday's review (in the other half of the building)


_"architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space" mies's motto printed on his autograph under a hollywood photo of his face!
i was amazed to listen to mies's voice(speaking for the epoch) in a mp3 file discovered by c.



*m&m building is the 3rd building for architect students/studios in iit after crownhall and 3410.