Mies
van der Roche was a very famous architecture during the modernism period. Most
of his building will show the structure and the material he use. His work was
known as, “less is more.” He developed a design approach based on structural
and minimalist. Even though Mies’s concept is, less is more he still use
ornament is his building. If you still remember the book that Loos wrote, Ornament
and Crime, the idea of modernism. Loos believe that ornament is just a waste of
money, resource, labour, and space in a building. He believes that modern
shouldn’t have any kind of decoration in it and think that it’s a crime.
However, Mies van der Roche was also architecture during the modernism but his buildings
also have an ornament on it. For example, the Seagram, it is very simple shape
building that shows all the materials and structure of the building, but still
there is a crime! Mies van der Roche wanted to show the structure of the
building by putting the extra I beam outside the building, which it didn’t
support any building structure but it just for decoration and of course these
beam is a tons of money. I don’t think this should be called as “less is more”.
The beam didn’t act as a structure but it also carry a tons of loads, I don’t
think this is make any sense at all.
To be
honest, I think Mies van der Roche should change his quote from “less is more” to
“not less but more”. It is so funny when I heard about this first time. The
idea of adding the extra beam that isn’t for structure but just for decoration
is from the person who believes in “less is more.”
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