Constructing A Building From Found Blueprints

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  • @garrickballard4108
    @garrickballard4108 2 роки тому +447

    As part of the team that built this project it turned out to be one of my finest. The structural Steel as shown in the video was started in our shop and completed in the field on site to make it look the way it does. As with most all of Shelby Coatings, Inc. projects this is my "last" new construction project because after 48 years of doing special coatings I'm retiring. So it is fitting to see this project done and love the video, great job.
    Garrick B

    • @temper44
      @temper44 Рік тому +5

      I would humbly suggest that you make one last project, a country house replica of this, on a hill top somewhere. All that light!

    • @thebankchanneltv
      @thebankchanneltv Рік тому +5

      A fantastic legacy you leave as your last project! Its beautiful, congrats.

    • @theexmann
      @theexmann Рік тому

      Very cool. Did you get to sign your name anywhere on that steel?

    • @andylam73
      @andylam73 Рік тому +1

      u have done a great job garrick

    • @TheRealBrook1968
      @TheRealBrook1968 Рік тому

      I am not an architect but my work in a former career life required that I created the vision and thousands of hours conveying that vision and hammering out details. I considered the final products to have sprung from my own mind. Do you consider truly great structures to be conceived of consensus or born of an individual's vision and birthed by a team?

  • @adsilcott
    @adsilcott 2 роки тому +349

    One thing I kept thinking of as I watched this: if Mies had still been around to oversee the construction of this building, he would have had to make many of the same concessions to his original plans that were made here. I wonder if he would have been as thoughtful about adapting it to his original vision, or, since he would have more of a sense of ownership over the design, if he would have made more drastic changes to accommodate modern standards and regulations.

    • @bradevans7935
      @bradevans7935 2 роки тому +8

      I wondered the same while watching this. This design was cutting-edge when originally drawn, and not a lot was known about how this style of building would perform in the real world. Surely he would have developed it even further with access to current knowledge and materials.

    • @BrooksMoses
      @BrooksMoses 2 роки тому +13

      And, if the building had been built in the 1950s as he intended it then, many of these changes would have been made as it was maintained through the years.

    • @weatheranddarkness
      @weatheranddarkness 2 роки тому +5

      @@BrooksMoses That's an interesting point. If the owners had not been able/willing to keep it "as is" it's likely that post facto changes would have changed it much much more significantly from its original lines/volumes.

    • @theexmann
      @theexmann Рік тому

      In the video it implies that later blue prints seemed to have included more modern changes like the kind of material that he might have ended up using for the casing on the windows. So, yes, he would have opted to use some of the latest materials and techniques of the day.

    • @TheJhtlag
      @TheJhtlag Рік тому

      Well, to be specific, I'm guessing the stairway design needed to be wider in case of fire or other disaster, given that the design is simplicity and functionality that should not have been too much of a problem. Guessing most of those changes would be safety considerations which are neutral changes to the esthetic. (Frank Lloyd Wright no so much, they're still trying to fix his places)

  • @jatdesign4495
    @jatdesign4495 2 роки тому +113

    Kind of like the Taliesin Associated Architects who would build some Wright’s unbuilt works but modify them to the client needs, site, and codes.

    • @caseysmith544
      @caseysmith544 2 роки тому +1

      Yep, one of them was in the soon be a named part of Madison, in the town of Middleton Wisconsin where Frank Lloyd Wright lived some of his last years. The Convention center that was to be built on the main lake.

    • @jatdesign4495
      @jatdesign4495 2 роки тому +1

      @@caseysmith544 Manona Terrace, I may have misspelled that.
      It’s a beautiful structure that is exactly what Wright wanted. The lights were to be the zodiac signs with the middle globe to represent the sun.

    • @caseysmith544
      @caseysmith544 2 роки тому

      @@jatdesign4495 Yep was there for the Kite festival in 1999 and then in 2000 when a guy broke the world record for largest Kite that later Japan really took the record with a whole town. Also some people way out on the lake set the new ice skate kite skiing speed record as well as an ice skate wind surfing record. Odd sport where they take often older lightly messed up bottom wind surfing boards and attached 4 sets of the blades from hockey ice skates on them to ride.

    • @mrchrisliddell
      @mrchrisliddell 2 роки тому +1

      I worked in one of their buildings, Ruth Eckerd Hall, and it was a delight to behold.

    • @Audion
      @Audion 2 роки тому +1

      Such as The Usonian House at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida.

  • @amybushman2298
    @amybushman2298 2 роки тому +54

    I go to Indiana and this explains a lot about this new building on campus! Everyone thought it was a very odd design for a new building and a strange use of space when expansion always seams to be the case at IU. Very cool to learn more about the history!

    • @eily_b
      @eily_b Рік тому +2

      Odd design? It's beautiful!

  • @B2BWide
    @B2BWide 2 роки тому +15

    I don't know how many of us observed that he speaks about Mies van der Rohe while sitting on a Barcelona chair-and also the look of the patio chairs echoing the Barcelona chair structure.
    Stewart Hicks is my favourite in architecture videos! Thank you Sir!

  • @larrybird8536
    @larrybird8536 2 роки тому +29

    I lived a stones throw away from this building last year and got to see most of the process of it being built and it was super cool

  • @IOUaUsername
    @IOUaUsername 2 роки тому +426

    Show me an architect who successfully designed an entire building in all its detail such that no engineer, builder, plumber etc had to make changes or design parts of it themselves. That's all they did here, change what needed to be changed to make the building work. The only difference is they didn't have to waste months sending emails back and forth to the architect because he wasn't still around.

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem 2 роки тому

      Mart Stam!
      Mies just copied that style!

    • @Abandonsoyciety
      @Abandonsoyciety 2 роки тому +12

      Show me an engineer who has designed something that isn't a pain in the ass to repair 😑

    • @LucasFernandez-fk8se
      @LucasFernandez-fk8se 2 роки тому +5

      I’m sure there are plenty of buildings like that but honestly as someone in architecture school right now I’d rather just let the engineers go at it then bother with things that are boring and that I know little about. I mean we LEARNED how to do SOME of that but I’d rather let the professionals handle it and tweak their finished work to be more “aesthetic” then to send electrical plans and HVAC plans back and forth even though I don’t think those plans are interesting at all

    • @jmz388
      @jmz388 Рік тому +6

      Handymen think architecture is easy
      Not soo….

    • @nunyabidness3075
      @nunyabidness3075 Рік тому +2

      I did that.
      So kidding, I did data center architecture (which in no way means i designed data centers 😂🤣😂🤣🤣)

  • @eugenetrollip751
    @eugenetrollip751 2 роки тому +243

    You always let me think critically about buildings. There is no doubt that this is a Mies van der Rohe building even if it has been modernized to comply with present day regulations. Although architecture is an art form, it is the only art form that is subjected to change over time, depending on the initial value of the design. This is a prime example. It still has the character initially intended by Mies, but adapted to modern day use. Being an art form, I think it is important to credit the designer even if an entire team worked to realize the vision. Construction drawings are instructions to the builder and there should be little room for 'interpretation' by the contractor.

    • @mtgibbs
      @mtgibbs 2 роки тому +6

      Apropos to your comment about architecture being subject to change over time, many buildings are remodeled/modified over time to adapt to the current needs of the occupants and to update them to current codes and standards. But I would suggest that (unless they are heavily modified/stripped of their original aesthetic) they are still in essence the building designed by the original architect.

    • @darthandeddeu
      @darthandeddeu 2 роки тому +1

      @@mtgibbs
      Modeling and knowledge is more widespread and there are solutions that are not as invasive to the original design. Compared to when it was designed.
      Better Heating and cooling systems, better and lighter flat roofing, Glas that is way way better. Etc

    • @mtgibbs
      @mtgibbs 2 роки тому +5

      @@darthandeddeu Absolutely, but there are times when the floor plan needs to change, such as for adaptive re-use or a different occupant needs more of one type of space and less of another. One nice feature of Mies' plans, for instance, is the standard grid size which gives the space flexibility.

    • @ChaplainDMK
      @ChaplainDMK 2 роки тому +5

      It's the same with music or any other art form where you have a plan and the have others reproduce it. Music will have notations and sheet music, but every time it is played it is interpreted by the performers - either through the selection of the instruments, the dyamnics of the performance, the energy, or even just reinterpretation of certain parts or even entire songs to fit a new style.
      Back etc. aren't played the same they were the first time, likely they are played radically differently due to changes in even fundamentals such as instrument tuning.

    • @sharksport01
      @sharksport01 2 роки тому +3

      Arent most/all art forms are subjected to change over time?

  • @MiamiMarkYT
    @MiamiMarkYT 2 роки тому +45

    To most (myself included): it’s clearly a Mies Van Der Rohe. And to the those few that it’s not; I think it’s impossible to see it as anything less than a passionate and faithful love letter to one of the most important architects of a generation.

    • @ingvarhallstrom2306
      @ingvarhallstrom2306 Рік тому

      I identified it as a Mies van der Rohe from the thumbnail alone even before I knew what the video was all about.

  • @capability-snob
    @capability-snob 2 роки тому +21

    I love how you've asked questions about provenance and yet it still reads like a love letter to van der Rowe. Great take.

  • @b.walker5955
    @b.walker5955 2 роки тому +6

    While I thoroughly enjoyed the Mies van der Rohe experience, what will stay with me longer is your brilliant delivery and skill of objectivity. Thank you for the lesson, lifelong will it last.

  • @dturk1022
    @dturk1022 Рік тому +1

    What a beautiful orchestration of the original architects design and intent.

  • @theexmann
    @theexmann Рік тому +1

    The overriding factor in assigning whether a building is attributed to a certain architect is whether you can ascertain that the given architect was the one who first envisioned the design/building. Constructing a building today is indeed a team effort more than ever but without that initial vision, whether it be on a piece of paper or an actual architectural drawing, you simply wouldn't have a building design to construct.
    New subscriber and life long fan of architectural design. Actually, I studied architecture at USC for a few years in the late 70s. Still remember our late nights finishing our projects in the studio and the sometimes brutal reviews of them afterwards. Many fond memories from my time at USC, and it's also where I got hooked on coffee so I could stay up late to work on those projects. :)
    I was first exposed to photography through studying architecture as we had our own photography lab and darkroom since we were required to take B/W photos of our models. I was so mesmerized by seeing a photograph slowly come to life from a blank sheet of paper in developing liquid, that I also became a life long photographer on that day. To this day I still love being involved with both disciplines.

  • @nolano6072
    @nolano6072 Рік тому +1

    I love this building as a student at IU. Emailed eskenazi to thank him and he replied!

  • @ellipsis...1986
    @ellipsis...1986 2 роки тому +22

    Thank you for all your uploads Stewart. It's a fascinating insight into the architecture world.

  • @roundedosu
    @roundedosu 2 роки тому +14

    i am absolutely stunned by Mies' work. i don't know how he makes these rectangular boxes interesting and makes them stand out. this seems like an amazing space to be in and i think this old project got taken care of really well

    • @largol33t1
      @largol33t1 Рік тому +1

      This design is fascinating because it has so much potential. It could be left flat on the ground to make it a residence. The high-rise stilts offer protection from floods and it would look "at home" on the beaches of Miami or in the metro areas of Las Vegas or modern Dallas. He was far ahead of his time.

    • @ingvarhallstrom2306
      @ingvarhallstrom2306 Рік тому +1

      Classicist proportion. All the early modernists were scholars of Palladio, it is clearly evident in the way they handle harmony and proportion. There's a simple elegance to their work that makes them timeless beauties.

  • @anothersettlementneedsyour9628
    @anothersettlementneedsyour9628 2 роки тому +88

    I’m not an architect, but this is one of my favorite channels to currently watch on youtube, because of the quality and how it’s just so well presented that it’s almost just as calming as it’s informational. It makes me appreciate my surroundings more than ever.
    If you ever ran out of ideas, I think a video about the urban planning in communist countries would be interesting for many who still live in those (me included). Or a video about Buckminster Fuller would be cool. I know there are some already, but none I’ve seen were as good as yours would be.

    • @BS-vx8dg
      @BS-vx8dg 2 роки тому +1

      I think Stewart could talk about anything from almonds to zebras and I'd enjoy listening to him talk.

    • @picahudsoniaunflocked5426
      @picahudsoniaunflocked5426 2 роки тому +2

      I remember seeing a couple of Buckminister Fuller’s ball houses in a vintage Omni mag I found as a kid, & a couple years later there was a Northern Exposure character that had one in a later season. I’d love to know more about those things.

    • @picahudsoniaunflocked5426
      @picahudsoniaunflocked5426 2 роки тому +1

      Also I wish I could remember more than “Preston” “Minuteman” & “Sanctuary” about where your pfp comes from so I could make a rad in-joke about your inevitable construction stylings in the Wasteland...but alas I am too dumb. Oh no...now I probably have to go quest for a punchline...

    • @BS-vx8dg
      @BS-vx8dg 2 роки тому +1

      @@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 I lived in a remote town in Alaska 40 years ago and someone had one of those in town. Its diameter, I would guess, was almost 30 feet. Most of the pictures I've seen of them were transparent, but this was not.

  • @Brian-os9qj
    @Brian-os9qj 2 роки тому +6

    Fascinated to discover how exciting architecture has captured my imagination late in life. There is time to appreciate it, and I am. Thank you for this and it’s wonderful presentation.

  • @michaelgreenslade7260
    @michaelgreenslade7260 2 роки тому +16

    I would definitely say that would be an authentic Mies van der Rohe design. Considering the provenance so design and the blessing by the family and the attention to detail! Hooray for the Indiana university Bloomington

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem 2 роки тому

      This is not art, just construction skills, include the constructors in the design.
      Mart Stam just used the materials that were available back then. Mies used that design, enhanced it.
      Build that now? Art?
      We can do better designs now, we do have way better skills, able to use any materials!
      Keep building Barcelona buildings, keep using these chairs too ???

  • @julianlineham
    @julianlineham 2 роки тому +5

    Fantastic video. As a structural engineer I love the floor hanger system. Thomas’ team did an exquisite job with the original design.

    • @reece8224
      @reece8224 Рік тому

      I love hearing engineers say they love the unique, hard solutions, and design intent - so refreshing, I’ve worked with many engineers who are really against anything but W-flanges and 90 degree boxes

  • @lilybird1462
    @lilybird1462 2 роки тому +2

    This is on my campus, I went to the open house when it opened. I dream that before I graduate I will be able to sit and paint inside on a rainystormy day, its so relaxing to be in that building.

  • @unreliablenarrator6649
    @unreliablenarrator6649 2 роки тому +3

    As an industrial architect/designer, where I specialize in multi-story clean room projects, I assure you that on our side of the profession we often build top-down with complex infrastructure requiring interior box within a box design & construction. BTW, fab der Rohe was a inspiration to me and my homage to him is a multipurpose visitor/meeting center on an industrial campus that put a small postage stamp of human scale on a site where 6m floors in concrete dominate the landscape.

  • @agntdrake
    @agntdrake 2 роки тому +13

    I have the opposite problem. I own/live in an early Eichler home which was built before Joseph Eichler teamed up with Anshen & Allen to create Eichler's iconic mid-century homes. It was designed after Eichler had become inspired by FLW and his vision for Usonian homes. The house itself is built with a raised foundation (vs. a slab) and has central HVAC (vs. radiant heating), doesn't have a central courtyard, but still has a flat roof, large plate glass windows, and a lot of the other features which Anshen & Allen went on to use in their designs. Is the house an Eichler? Maybe a Likeler by Eichler?
    My take on this is it honestly doesn't matter. I love the house and homes are meant to be lived in. I've also had to bring the house up to code (like adding insulation, redoing the plumbing, electrical, asbestos disposal, etc), and to add an addition to make it work for a family in the 21st century vs. mid-20th century. How much of the house is new vs. "original"?

    • @moxielouise
      @moxielouise 2 роки тому +1

      I would be so interested in a video tour of your home. i can both visualize and not visualize it at the same time by your description. You make me so curious to see and learn more

    • @jasonreed7522
      @jasonreed7522 2 роки тому +2

      Its a very "ship of Theseus" problem, and my answer as an engineer it that it doesn't matter. A design is only good if it serves the needs of the client (in this case, you as the home owner), and you have done remodeling (maybe contracted out to professional designers) to update the design to suit your new needs. (Meeting code, more space, ect)
      Some architects design monuments to themselves, good architects design for their client's needs. (including planning for future needs, an example of an EE doing this is oversizing a main service so that in 10yrs when the building expands they have capacity and don't need to spend a bunch of money upgrading the service)

  • @cassidydavidson286
    @cassidydavidson286 2 роки тому +2

    As an IU alum I loved hearing about the new development around campus. As a Midwest native, I was initially confused about where this building was located - with Illinois and Indiana both having a town named Bloomington, and the naming differences of the schools (Universty of Illinois vs Indiana University). I watched this on my TV but came to my computer to see if any other viewers noticed this. I appreciate your due diligence of adding the correction to the description! Overall great content.

  • @lisakilmer2667
    @lisakilmer2667 2 роки тому +12

    Well, that's another interesting video! I think the new building could be called a "Mies" building, because even though an architect doesn't actually build his or her project, neither does a clothing designer actually stitch the garment, but his or her name is on the label. In music, adjustments are called "arrangements" so a Mozart piece could be "arranged by" someone else, for instance for school orchestras. Perhaps with a major update such as the Eskenazi School of Architecture building, joint "authorship" might be appropriately assigned.

  • @jked7463
    @jked7463 2 роки тому

    It is a team effort but without that architect's vision and drive, the building will never be more than the sum of it's parts. In your analogy, the architect is both the composer and the conductor using many people to create his vision. All great art, even if many hands touch it, is the product of that one visionary. All art is that way, whether paintings, sculptures, automobiles or architecture, the truly great examples have a single mind guiding everyone else along to create the masterpiece.

  • @brucewilkinson8599
    @brucewilkinson8599 2 роки тому +7

    Growing up in Chicago I was deep influenced to become an architect, first because of Frank Lloyd Wright and the by Miles van der Rohe, and their modern looks. Hopefully today more students of architecture will pay more attention to the power of various schools of design to understand how these older architects got a lot of design ideas correct.

  • @Dumptheclutchevo
    @Dumptheclutchevo 2 роки тому +15

    As someone that loves architecture, yet is not one, I feel that if an architect (or his/her team) design a building (and he/she signs off on it), then it is the work of that architect. As far as i'm concerned, architecture isn't just designing and drawing plans. It is about the location, the situation, the environment, in which those plans will be built. Therefore, you can take the plans of an architect, and build to those plans elsewhere, but if they were not drawn for that piece of land, then it's not of that architect. You could call it 'initially designed by...' or something, but I don't know if I could call it fully by said architect.
    But that's just me, idk...

  • @shesthebethest
    @shesthebethest 2 роки тому +9

    I am so happy that I found your channel. Your videos are so well done and so interesting. Thanks for cresting them! I'm surprised this one is only 13 minutes and there's so much there to think about.

  • @rinorsaiti
    @rinorsaiti 2 роки тому +3

    I'm a big fan of Mies, and really like when you cover his work!
    Thank you for introducing me to Thomas Phifer and Partners.

  • @Ocarafeio
    @Ocarafeio 2 роки тому +1

    Im a architect from Brazil and im binge watching all your vídeos. Great Work man !

  • @michaeltres
    @michaeltres 2 роки тому +6

    Thank you for this excellent video. You mentioned music existing at a remove from the creator, but there are many examples in the plastic arts as well. Bronze sculptures are executed by craftsmen, not by the artist, from castings or other intermediary processes apart from the original design. Rodin even authorized posthumous castings of his bronzes. Chihuli farms out all his pieces, and he has not personally blown a single piece of glass in decades, although he isn't the best example, given the recent controversies around his work. Warhol worked with a team to execute his pieces. Examples abound throughout the art world.

  • @EyeLean5280
    @EyeLean5280 2 роки тому +7

    Yes, we should build the designs but there should be a law that such buildings include a plaque explaining that it's a posthumous build and including the names of any/all architects involved in design changes or additions.

    • @jasonreed7522
      @jasonreed7522 2 роки тому +2

      If your going to do that then you better also include all the engineers who made the design functional. Not architect has the ability to make a design from start to finish so perfectly complete and detailed that all the structural, MEP, process, ect drawings needed 0 changes from the PEs who stamped them. (Because the training alone would take longer than med school, and the design process would take ages, tally up all the hours billed to a single project and its years) The entire design team, often distributed across multiple firms, rightfully feels a sense of ownership for a successful design.
      And most importantly, a design is only good iff it serves the client's needs.

  • @nicolebonet6119
    @nicolebonet6119 2 роки тому +5

    These videos are absolutely incredible! I have no idea how you come up with all these unique ideas

  • @elizabethduffy2145
    @elizabethduffy2145 2 роки тому +6

    I’d be interested in what you think of House of an Art Lover, a Mackintosh house built in the 90s, and the potential rebuild of the Glasgow Art School which burned down… twice…

  • @tallief1620
    @tallief1620 2 роки тому +2

    I cannot understate how much I love your videos. I moved to Iowa recently and love visiting all the little treasures in the Midwest (American Gothic house last week!), so this is on my list right next to the secret sky barn now!!!

  • @spicynoodle888
    @spicynoodle888 2 роки тому

    I agree full heartedly with your questions about authorship (not only in architecture but in many of the disciplines). It is time we abandon the myth of the sole creator genius and recognize the collaborative effort involved in the creation of such works. IMO it doesn't diminish the role of people like Mies, but acknowledges the contributions of all those involved. Your students are lucky to have you. Your videos are so well put together and the topics are compelling. Thanks for all your hard work.

  • @christopherstephenjenksbsg4944
    @christopherstephenjenksbsg4944 2 роки тому +22

    I am not a huge fan of Mies. The only building by him that I really love is the Barcelona Pavilion which, in its current form, is a reproduction itself, not the original structure. Despite that, I still think it's an authentic Mies building. By the same token I think that the Indiana University building can be considered an authentic Mies building, but only to a certain degree. One thing you don't highlight is the difference in function. The new building is an administrative center, not a frat house. This necessarily changes the interior. I think the building can be justly called "Miesian", but it isn't Mies. It does demonstrate, however, that Mies' buildings are "universal spaces" that can be adapted to many different uses.
    I think your point about the collaborative nature of architectural design is very well taken. Once the design of monumental buildings was separated from the actual building process during the Renaissance, this division has existed, although builders working on vernacular structures continued to be both designers and builders for many centuries to come. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that the Principals of an architectural firm oversaw and critiqued the work of their staff architects, but didn't do much in the way of actual designing themselves, although there were and are exceptions to this approach. For any large building it would now be impossible, but for smaller residential or commercial buildings individual architects can play a much larger role.

    • @BS-vx8dg
      @BS-vx8dg 2 роки тому +4

      Thank you, Christopher; your comment added much value to an already interesting video.

    • @joaoerlacher
      @joaoerlacher 2 роки тому +2

      Love you comment, but I disagree just a little with you. If Mies was designing an administrative center the final project would be completely different from that. That is only a recreation based on Mies`s design, a token for Indiana University. And you highlighted the greatest point of this building and discussion, how "adaptable" Mies design is.
      At the same time what a waste of resources on an outdated design. Buildings are an image of its time, they reflect how people live, what materials they had, the technologies of their period etc. This building means nothing to our time, probably isnt energy efficient with all those glass façades. I studied in IIT and Rohe built a bunch of those buildings around the same principles and, while Crown Hall is quite nice, applying the same things to the gym is bs! During summer, the basketball courts with no ventilation and all that glass were hotter than an oven.
      That is not the "best design" (although that doenst exists) they could have for a recreation center. They wanted the Mies brand, but this building adds nothing to Mies legacy.

    • @BS-vx8dg
      @BS-vx8dg 2 роки тому +3

      @@joaoerlacher An interesting and well-argued perspective. I'm an architectural ignoramus, but I actually don't think it's necessary to "know" architecture to have an intelligent opinion on a question like this which is, at its core, philosophical rather than architectural. And the way I feel is . . . . *appreciative* ! This has been a fascinating discussion, and I'm not sure how I feel, but João, you've added much to what I've already taken in on this discussion. Thank you for helping me continue thinking.

    • @joaoerlacher
      @joaoerlacher 2 роки тому +2

      @@BS-vx8dg And you are absolutely right, you dont need to "know" architecture to have opinion about it, I mean you live in buildings so you have firsthand experiences about them, us architects only have more time and experience to think a bit more and deeply about it. But that is a beautiful thing about architecture EVERYONE knows a little about it, and that is why Stewart has the best architecture and urban design channel on UA-cam because he brings all those discussions both for architects and non-architects.
      Have a good one BMJS!

    • @word42069
      @word42069 2 роки тому

      @@joaoerlacher You make valid points but I would disagree that the project is a “waste of resources” as you put it. haha. Obviously Mies’s work carries weight so of course if given the opportunity, a university is going to build one of his designs on their campus. I think it’s an interesting project as it reminds us that Architects make instructions for buildings, not the buildings themselves… so just because a project is carried out after the architect’s death doesn’t mean it is not valid or legitimate. The point of the video is authorship in architecture, not so much “is this design worth constructing 50 years later”. One could argue that many famous architects barely contribute to projects that go through their office even while alive. So many people work on an architectural design far more than partners (generally speaking). One of the greatest faults in the practice of architecture is the frequent overemphasis on the individual star designer.. telling is that frequently firms with great design work usually have people leave who go on to become successful designers at their own firms… look at FLW at Louis Sullivan’s practice. Anyway, by today’s standards yes, this project would have been built completely differently and be much more efficient… but then again it also would have probably been much larger maxing out the site… and potentially just as “wasteful” of not more. This brings us to the discussion of whether or not architects are designers in the sense that are we supposed to just resolve multiple requirements and build things as maximally and efficiently (money and energy) as possible or to actually evoke something by pushing a coherent design language and then doing the aforementioned resolving? Architecture is balance. I think that this project is cool because it shows how much more efficient a Mies project could be made with today’s technology and materials. It brings up interesting pondering about how much differently Mies’s entire design language may have been if he were to design today.

  • @alexignatow5420
    @alexignatow5420 2 роки тому +3

    I love the idea of architectural replication as a way of representing architecture. Just as the architect has to pay special attention to how they represent their vision in their work (drawings and renders), those who are trying to replicate architecture from those who have passed also have to pay attention to this. After all, the replication is in and of itself a form of representation, and that's pretty interesting. Loved the video!

  • @charpnatl
    @charpnatl 2 роки тому +12

    This video brought me so much joy today! Thank You! It’s fascinating how this building came to be born so long after it was planned. Honestly i can’t image it as a Frat House.

    • @BS-vx8dg
      @BS-vx8dg 2 роки тому +7

      There's more than a couple of fraternities that might not have gotten in the trouble they encountered if they lived in a Glass Frat House.

    • @mistert7958
      @mistert7958 7 місяців тому

      OnlyFans certainly comes to mind.

  • @nsidor1234
    @nsidor1234 2 роки тому +2

    Yes, just as it is during their time on earth, it is their work on paper that is completed by the builder.
    It is , if nothing else, a fitting tribute to their genius. and an honor to their legacy.

  • @jakebailey7176
    @jakebailey7176 Рік тому

    As a student at IU I can say I love walking past this building everyday and whenever I have a major project it's where I study. Glad to have found this video.

  • @migrantfamily
    @migrantfamily 2 роки тому +5

    My Pa was a construction engineer who dabbled in architecture. He dismantled a log house and rebuilt it at a new site. He has been dead six years now, and we as a family keep the build going, trying to stick to his vision while accommodating needs that he hadn’t thought of. A building is never quite finished, or it’s dead.

  • @steven.l.patterson
    @steven.l.patterson 2 роки тому +6

    Interesting, I’ll have to check it out.
    This reminds me of the Pavilion for Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
    Bruce Goff first designed it for a site in Bartlesville OK, then as an addition to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Then Goff died.
    His former apprentice Bart Prince took Goff’s design and adapted it for LA. Granted this opened to the public within 6 years of Goff’s passing. Prince is the architect of record, but everyone considers it a Goff design.

    • @risk5riskmks93
      @risk5riskmks93 2 роки тому +1

      Was just looking at this building last week. Did not know this. Thank you!

  • @gramirez72
    @gramirez72 Рік тому

    I appreciate the correlation with a music composition. I’m a composer/orchestrator, when I was in school my teacher often talked about a piece in architectural terms. And, interestingly, I do love architecture, I wanted to become an architect growing up, but became a musician instead. I still love staring at buildings in awe. I live in Los Angeles - the Frank Gehry designed Walt Disney Concert Hall is one of my favorite structures. It’s a stunning piece of design and construction. And sound!

  • @larrynguyen85
    @larrynguyen85 2 роки тому

    Really enjoyed watching this and appreciate its lucidity and thoughtfulness. The conclusion you made at the end about authorship and outdated tropes of the "lone genius" are spot-on and very eloquently stated. Thank you!

  • @jamesmaddigan8132
    @jamesmaddigan8132 2 роки тому +1

    Great video. Mies is one of my favourite architects and I do like the design, end result, and challenges adapting an old design to current code and needs (been there and still doing that). The building though is a contradiction. It was designed in an age with such mantras of "being of its time", and is not serving its original design purpose. The project flips the saying of "form follows function" to "function follows form", but that is not a bad thing and has been happening in architecture since the first building was erected. Architects are trained, then and now, to analyze client and site requirements to come up with an appropriate design for each new project. If the Client wants a Miesian building, then that is what was is delivered. Without Clients paying the bills one cannot have architecture, just paper dreams. It is a Miesian building, even if realized by others. Great masters of art operated ateliers with apprentices who could replicate the masters style, producing paintings attributed to the master. As an aside, I wonder if those praising this contemporary building of a Miesian design, would equally welcome other reinterpretations of historic styles?

  • @BorderlineBraindead
    @BorderlineBraindead 2 роки тому +5

    I was not expecting to see a video today about a building I've had classes in

  • @Spencergundersenmusic
    @Spencergundersenmusic 2 роки тому +1

    Wow that ending statement was so good. I love to think about the group effort that goes into turning each building into a masterwork.

  • @JohnnyWishbone85
    @JohnnyWishbone85 Рік тому

    I think the comparison of architecture and building to music is particularly apt. Each stage of realizing the terminal expression of a design is its own art form. The design is an art. The interpretation is an art. Each of the disciplines involved in execution is an art form. Architecture and music are compound art forms, and each are a team sport.

  • @Salohkin11
    @Salohkin11 2 роки тому +6

    Your videos provide interesting insights into architecture that I had never considered, thanks!

  • @kylenevel8809
    @kylenevel8809 2 роки тому +2

    I remember going to Taliesin West for a school field trip in elementary school (this was a while ago so I could be misremembering details and intentions as well) and the tour guide told us how Frank Lloyd Wright would sometimes give his apprentices a small sum of money to build the desert dwellings that (I hope) are still on the property.
    It wasn't even enough money to buy materials so this would encourage apprentices to collaborate on the design, look for financial support from outside benefactors and compromise to cut costs all with the intention of simulating what it would be like to work in the real world. Work changing hands, compromising, cutting designs that don't fit the budget or needs all for the sake of making a building that the architect and the client could be happy with. You said "Is this a faithful and untainted reproduction of Mies's vision?" And I think that no building is 100% untainted, there's always things cut for costs, or changes made for the client or by the contractors. Calling this building a product of Mies's vision is enough I believe.

  • @crispyglove
    @crispyglove 2 роки тому +4

    A bit off topic, but I'd love to see a video on Richardsonian Romanesque. Being as you're based in Chicago, an examination of the John J. Glessner House would be very interesting.

  • @Kbarboza94
    @Kbarboza94 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for your content. You’re one of my favorite UA-cam channels

  • @BostonMark
    @BostonMark Рік тому +1

    Love the crossover interpretation of other arts that parallels architecture

  • @ClimbingEasy
    @ClimbingEasy 2 роки тому +1

    Mr. Hicks, in a short video you have detailed aspects of Mies I have yet to see in any other video. This is a quick macro and micro view on Mies. Very cool and thank you.

  • @atomicsmith
    @atomicsmith 2 роки тому +4

    Great questions! For me the critical question is did the architect design it for the site it is built on. Issues around site are one of the main thing that distinguishes architecture from art or music. If an architect designs a building for one site but after his death it’s built on another site, this changes the original intent of the building enough to not be the original work. We might think of mies’s work as “universal” but careful consideration of his work shows he was a master of site (as are any architects worthy of the name).

    • @_asphobelle6887
      @_asphobelle6887 2 роки тому

      Agree, I was about to say the same thing about the 9:20 bit "It could be copied at another site and still technically be authentic to the architect's intentions" No it couldn't, because any good architect designs with the environment and context of the building in mind : not only orientation, climate and weather pattens, but also the landscape, neighbouring buildings, the visual impact the building will have, and so on.

  • @SaiSantoshMARU
    @SaiSantoshMARU 2 роки тому +1

    Brilliant. Especially the last couple of statments!

  • @mixedspleens
    @mixedspleens 2 роки тому +4

    Great Video! The question of authorship is an interesting one, obviously I would not discount in the least Mies' Drive, Talent, and vision, but I have similar feelings about authorship as I do the "great man" concept in history. Society, personal and professional relationships, timing, and serendipity do as much to contribute to the success of an author as other more internal loci of success. Obviously this building bears Mies' designs and sensibilities, but I agree that its form and function owe vast amounts to Mies' associates who also worked on the project, and the folks that worked on it from Thomas Phiffer and Associates, and the context and time that it was built in. Had the idea been surfaced earlier, would it even been considered? I couldn't imagine this being built in the 80's. Additionally, up until somewhat recently I believe that the modern adaptations made to make it possible would themselves have to to be very different.

  • @jpl8878
    @jpl8878 2 роки тому +2

    Great video, Stewart. This is a wonderful thought exercise. As I watched the video three related discussions/projects came to mind. First, you may enjoy the Buckland Architects Theory of Architecture podcast episode with Piers Taylor where he talks about vernacular architecture.
    Second, there was an episode of Grand Designs: New Zealand where a couple built a house designed by an American architect for the Northeast USA. They had to make significant changes to adapt it to their local climate with limited input from the architect because he couldn't travel all the way to New Zealand.
    Third, you may also find the case of Petra Island interesting. It's a private island in New York about an hour from NYC. One of the previous owners commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build a house on the island but construction was too costly. Years later a subsequent owner built the house from the plans, but the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation refused to certify it as a Wright design because the architect who interpreted the plans (like Thomas Pfifer did here) didn't work with the Foundation. As a result the house can only be called "Wright-inspired".

  • @fimbulsummer
    @fimbulsummer Рік тому

    That umbrella form is just perfection to me. ❤

  • @knarf_on_a_bike
    @knarf_on_a_bike 2 роки тому +1

    I love your music analogy. Bach's Cello Suites are still Bach, whether played by Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline du Pré or Cassels.
    That's a Mies van der Rohe. And it is stunning!

  • @goldoozaru
    @goldoozaru 2 роки тому +1

    thank you thank you thank you.

  • @Wico90YT
    @Wico90YT 2 роки тому +5

    I was Pilam in college. They can't have nice things so this makes sense haha

  • @Trance88
    @Trance88 Рік тому

    This is so cool! I wish there were more buildings like this. New, Mid-century buildings that were adapted from old blueprints.

  • @JayCWhiteCloud
    @JayCWhiteCloud 2 роки тому +2

    Just found your channel and love it...!!!...I don't agree with some premises but that is fine since the world of "art" is not always about liking everything...but you present wonderful content and discussion about this topic dear to my heart...
    Should We Build Designs From Dead Architects?...YES...!!!...when it is well done...sustainable and proven to work well within the context of means, modality, and material application...Most "modern designs" like Mies van der Rohe...SHOULD NOT...be ever copied...but his work should be preserved and appreciated for the art it is...
    It does not reflect "good architecture" in the context of sustainability...serviceability...and even aesthetics to the mean average of observers...some will like, some will even love it...yet many will find no interest or value in it...and for me personally I find most (not all) platform "cubist style" architecture kind of like Andy Warhol's work..."fake it to make it"...as it really isn't that creative per se and more about "look at me"...but that is a perspective of the artistic side of the work...
    Thanks again for sharing this and the question...

  • @stephenmoerlein8470
    @stephenmoerlein8470 2 роки тому

    Interesting philosophic analysis. I am not an architect, but was a physics major at IIT, and was always inspired by the bold minimalist designs of Mies. This building in Indiana seems an appropriate modern legacy to his genius.

  • @auvillebw
    @auvillebw 2 роки тому

    The firm Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM) did a whole college campus of buildings similar to this: the US Air Force Academy. Walter Netsch was the lead architect. SOM’s Gertrude Lempp Kerbis studied with Mies van der Rohe at IIT, and she designed Mitchell Hall. So although only one building has an indirect link to Mies van der Rohe all of the other buildings are stylistically similar. This would suggest that the modernist movement was being expressed through similar architecture concepts and solutions by many people.

  • @Akoni70
    @Akoni70 2 роки тому +3

    Lots of fun. While the American building codes seem more rigid, did you know the Canadian building code allows Architects to interpret and diverge from established rules as long as they can defend their designs. This applies mainly to egress and envelope design but other rigid aspects of building can be creatively interpreted.

  • @javiermedina7663
    @javiermedina7663 2 роки тому +4

    You’re what I wish my professors were

  • @sittingstill3578
    @sittingstill3578 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you Stewart. I found your presentation of this building fascinating. I wonder if the modern additions to meet code could be viewed as a more _human_ and livability alterations that Mies would have adapted to and developed further if he were alive to oversee construction.

  • @theilliad4298
    @theilliad4298 2 роки тому +1

    His work is some of the best in history.

  • @wlacosta
    @wlacosta 2 роки тому

    another instand hood classic, Stewart. Thanks for all that you do

  • @bc8714
    @bc8714 2 роки тому +4

    Can you make a series about different famous architects, their work, design philosophy, and impact to contemporary architecture.

    • @bc8714
      @bc8714 2 роки тому +2

      Love your videos btw

    • @stewarthicks
      @stewarthicks  2 роки тому +2

      I'd love to! Sounds a little costly though...

    • @RenierRivas
      @RenierRivas Рік тому

      What for, there’s HUNDREDS of videos like it already

  • @guorunyang9881
    @guorunyang9881 2 роки тому +2

    This is similar to Kahn’s newly finished nyc FDR memorial. One could argue that architects like Kahn and Mies could’ve kept developing the projects, and could be turned out completely differently than the built works today,(Especially Kahn). Then the built work by these developers stops the potentials within unfinished projects.

  • @ericvilla1
    @ericvilla1 2 роки тому +2

    these are so awesome. I had no idea I liked architecture until I started watching your videos this week

  • @thepenultimateninja5797
    @thepenultimateninja5797 Рік тому +1

    0:49 I'm an estimator. In my experience, the drawings are ostensibly finished at the 100% CD set stage, but then we are subjected to several rounds of bulletins as they try to correct their blunders.

  • @juijev192
    @juijev192 2 роки тому +3

    Thanks for this video, it's really good. Is there any footage of the construction available elsewhere? Would be really cool if someone had made a documentary about the whole process

  • @malinp4491
    @malinp4491 2 роки тому +1

    It looks very Mies and very Farns-worthy. Love it

  • @Redshirt214
    @Redshirt214 2 роки тому

    Something that I’ve found interesting, in my recent research on a architect working in the Western Reserve in Ohio, called Jonathan Goldsmith, was how much of earlier buildings really *were* the direct result of a singular architect. Now, I think a lot of that is a reflection of schools of architecture, like Greek Revival in which Goldsmith worked, where architectural forms were rigid and formulaic, so the artistry involved was more in how one combined stock elements. Equally, it’s context dependent as Goldsmith was working in a primitive environment where he often was working more as a builder than an architect and doing things beyond what modern architects would do, like shipbuilding. Yet, here was a guy who as far as I can tell handled the design of buildings, supervised their constructions, and took an active part in the work including handing the fine architectural details. Such people are far more directly the creators of buildings than later, modern architects, and maybe that means we ought to judge those later architects by different standards. Clearly the changes in the profession and the actual practice of architecture as the world because more professional and industrialized means that what those later architects were doing is not quite the same thing as their predecessors.

  • @aodhanofailain
    @aodhanofailain 2 роки тому +1

    Congratulations to all concerned with this building.
    The conceptual tensions and ambiguities inherent in this project are fascinating. It raises questions of identity, categorisation, authenticity, and value, and the relation between past and present. Is this a new building in an old design or an old building that’s newly built? Is it contemporary architecture or a museum facsimile? Is this an authentic Mies original or an anachronistic replica of a Mies original that was never built? Is this a Modernist icon or a Neo-Modernist Revival?
    The Eskenazi School was designed by an Arch-Modernist as Modernism proclaimed itself the absolute truth but has been built when the prevailing Post-Modernism interprets its design as one relativistic style on a campus of many equally valid narratives. Mies thought his minimalist glass boxes would polysemically transcend period and style. But in 21st century we read his aniconicism as distinctively of the 1950s and Miesian Modernist in style.
    So, has the project been a worthless exercise? No, clearly not. It’s structurally sound, useful, and is regarded as beautiful. Moreover, in theoretical terms it’s ground-breaking, but not in a way Mies intended or probably would have welcomed. It’s a quintessentially Modernist building destroying the Modernist myth of a complete rupture with the past in each generation and proving that historical styles can be meaningful out of their original era. Ironic, huh?

  • @JosephHuether
    @JosephHuether 2 роки тому

    The bronze and glass curtainwall for the interior "glass box" at the Beinecke Library (Gordon Bunshaft - SOM) in New Haven CT also employs an "umbrella" structure similar to the one described here. There are steel bars within the mullions from which a spandrel channel "hangs"...supporting part of the perimeter stacks walkway. This structure is a hybrid. Part concrete core, part load bearing (not hung) multi-tiered shelving system (manufactured by Remington Rand) and part "hung" steel, bronze and glass enclosure wall that was manufactured by General Bronze...who also manufactured the curtain wall for the Seagrams Building. George A. Fulller Company built the building in 1963.

  • @rogeremmerson
    @rogeremmerson 2 роки тому +1

    I'm not taken with Mies' architecture but the principle you adduce, of the equivalence of an architect's drawing to a musical score, is sound. We are presently considering the same in Scotland as the discussion over the reconstruction of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's fire-destroyed School of Art continues. As always, Stewart, a thoughtful piece.

  • @bricksloth6920
    @bricksloth6920 2 роки тому +11

    I saw this building today. Didn't know it existed, but I recognized the design as soon as I saw it and was very surprised by it. I pointed it out to my daughter as "look, real architecture". Then I came home and discovered you'd posted this video to explain what it was and the story behind it

  • @RyanJohnsonD
    @RyanJohnsonD Рік тому

    Great video. Really good points on all the people who are involved in the influence of the finished product.

  • @dmorga1
    @dmorga1 Рік тому

    Such a fascinating story. Thank you for the video! I am not a huge architecture buff, but I have always been a huge fan of Mies, having lived in Chicago for 7 years and made the pilgrimage to Plano to see Edith's house. I think the repurposing of this design saves it. Mies struck me as an architect with ideas in search of clients. It's well-known that he already had the Farnsworth House idea fully formed and sketched when he spoke to Edith about her desire to have him build her house. Somehow, he managed to bend Edith to this preformed idea he had, as a great architect would, I suppose. Looking at this building, I think as a fraternity house, it would have been a disaster. Even the neatest, best-behaved fraternity members would have kept the curtains drawn all the time. Having 20 bedrooms all facing out gives them natural light, but zero privacy without the curtains. Edith learned this as well, but her house was sited in what was then a very pastoral setting. But she suffered different annoyances, as she found that the summertime insects were attracted to the lit house like moths to a lantern, necessitating some odd bronze screens to be fitted, sort of destroying the point of a glass house. With this fraternity house, I think it would have been similar, but in this case, related to privacy. I think he basically designed a large Farnsworth House, and it wasn't well-suited for the use. I'm glad IU decided to turn it into multi-use space that can largely have the curtains open. As an industrial/educational communal space, it's beautiful.

  • @giovannifiorentino8947
    @giovannifiorentino8947 Рік тому

    Even big ancient paintings and sculptures were produce of multiple helpers at a master's "bottega", being overseeing and approved by the signing artist. This building shows an harmonic unity, on my modest opinion. It adds to the surroundings in an esthetic way.

  • @pensilbergerak5580
    @pensilbergerak5580 2 роки тому

    Oo.. this is my favorit Chanel about talk modern buliding , awal sebuah sejarah sebuah gedung modern yang kemudian tahun- tahun berikutnya menginspirasi orang lain untuk membuat gedung /bangunan/rumah modern yang lebih fungsional, simpel,lebih kuat, ekonomis, lebih praktis dst

  • @Mikemenn
    @Mikemenn Рік тому +1

    Not sure how UA-cam decided your video should so as a suggestion, but glad it did. This is a very interesting video and I'm glad I watched. Thanks.

  • @MattBraun
    @MattBraun 2 роки тому

    Wow! Having to have all the electric, hvac, plumbing, etc.... all cut before arrival and then seamlessly coming together is amazing and probably only possible with modern tools & tech.
    This makes me think, of course, of Sagrada Familia which will forever be attributed to Gaudi, but is mostly a result of interpretations and adaptations.

  • @SeanLamb-I-Am
    @SeanLamb-I-Am Рік тому +1

    This reminds me of the story behind Monona Terrace, up here in Madison, designed in the 1920s-30s by Frank Lloyd Wright but built in the 1990s, and has since become an icon of the city, despite it covering up much of a mural along the lakefront.

  • @collintheviking2082
    @collintheviking2082 Рік тому

    Yay! My campus is being represented! I get to pass by this building on my way to classes every day!

  • @pyhead9916
    @pyhead9916 2 роки тому +14

    As an architect, I know nothing I design is solely mine! The contractor, engineer, building department, fire department, code inspector and carpenter all make changes to your design base on their job requirements. They're not always good changes or desired changes, but they will happen.
    It's a Mies van der Rohe building.

    • @thornil2231
      @thornil2231 2 роки тому +3

      If those people make changes to your design that means your design was wrong to start with. I know it is harsh but when you start the design you have parameters: Code, budget, technical feasibility. And you need to design within those parameters. Now if contractors do not respect your design, it is your job to crack the whip and make them do what they contracted to do.

    • @jasonreed7522
      @jasonreed7522 2 роки тому

      @@thornil2231 the design process is highly iterative, unexpected problems crop up all the time. Ideally an architect would know everything all the different trades need and would get everything right the first time, i would bet a trillion dollars this never happens in all of history. (Even if the architect was qualified to make every single drawing and design decision, they would still encounter problems forcing design changes that conflict with the original vision)
      The difference between a good and bad architect is if they intend to make something to best suit the client's needs vs just make a monument to themselves. (Not that most of the buildings i work on as an electrical engineer are particularly monument worthy, being industrial facilities or labs)
      At the end of the day all the design disciples will grumble about eachother as they make requests to change something or another, and architects are the ones most responsible for aesthetics and engineers are tasked with function. (Not that us engineers are intentionally trying to make ugly buildings, its just normally last on the list of things to solve)

    • @thornil2231
      @thornil2231 2 роки тому +1

      @@jasonreed7522 An architect is someone who knows a little about a lot. An engineer is someone who knows a lot about a little.
      A good architect is a multi faceted individual. You have to be a psychologist (sometime a psychiatrist) to deal with clients, an economist, an engineer, an artist, a construction manager, a drafter, a manager of the design team, and to know building trades. And yes you have good ones. The bad ones only do one thing: Be a drafter for the client, regardless of the stupidity of the design.
      Of course the design process is iterative, but a good architect is able to do a preliminary design that will be very close to the final. You take the example of electrical, a good architect is able to anticipate the chases in relation to the structural elements, and tell the structural engineer, "you can't have a beam there..."
      I like to put architect in the unenviable set of jobs anybody think they can do like restaurant/bar owner, contractors... Yes you can design it yourself... and it will look like you designed it yourself...

    • @jasonreed7522
      @jasonreed7522 2 роки тому

      @@thornil2231 definitely agree, architects are normally the primary on a job which means they have to do all the administrative "cat herding", and even if they aren't primary they still are the center of coordination of the trades since they are in charge of "artistic vision" and their job comes first as they make the building itself in the model/plans so everyone needs to coordinate with them. Not an enviable task to have.
      I also think it does everyone good to have a little "Renaissance Man" in them for knowing what the other trades need. It may be mandatory for architects since their design for the building must accomodate all the utilities and suport that goes inside it, but engineers can make eachothers lives way easier by taking a small step out of their way because they know what a different discipline needs. (To me one of the most obvious place for this is in fieldwork, take legible and clear photos of things outside of just what you need and you will save someone without even knowing it. Nothing is worse than needing to read a label but the only image of it is blurry.)
      A good example of design synergy would be if you have a cathedral ceiling, it needs lights, HVAC, structural, fire suppression, and obviously aesthetics, you could run all the conduit and pipes separately, or you could run everything up the top surface of the beams and cover them in a beautiful facade. A little coordination goes a long way.

  • @robert23497
    @robert23497 2 роки тому

    Yes. This is mies. I haven't seen much of his work but this certainly looks right. I'm a big Frank Lloyd Wright fan. I REALLY like this kind of modern art deco look. After looking at 100s of different structure styles for years in the modern day......personally I would build a kitchen at each end of the building instead of just having one at one end and none on the other end. Makes for a shorter walk to breakfast. Also, a few more bathrooms. Doing this though........would not be following the original drafts/blueprints and.......I'm glad that they didn't do that! The building looks absolutely stunning and cheers to you for showing it to us!

    • @suekennedy1595
      @suekennedy1595 2 роки тому

      It’s a office now not a student residence

  • @krasspenn
    @krasspenn Рік тому

    In the end He was the inspiration.
    Beautiful building wonderful video

    • @stewarthicks
      @stewarthicks  Рік тому +1

      And the friends we made along the way...

  • @sahs3811
    @sahs3811 Рік тому

    Found this channel by accident, so great full for UA-cam recommendations!

  • @yayasorensen4351
    @yayasorensen4351 Рік тому

    My husband is the best person to ask. They ALWAYS have to make changes. It isn't always the architects fault, sometimes codes change and then so does the plans.

  • @tobiwan001
    @tobiwan001 Рік тому +1

    You need less than a second to identify the style as a Mies van der Rohe. It's immediately recogniseable as something he could have built in the 1950s. It's also very different from his earlier 20s and 30s designs and you can also see that there is a visible gap in design philosophy to his later works like the Neue Nationalgallerie with its heav roof structure.

  • @arjunchakravarti1015
    @arjunchakravarti1015 2 роки тому +1

    Superbly done

  • @rodrigovargas1910
    @rodrigovargas1910 2 роки тому +1

    I love the quality of your videos!