Category: modernism

• Fallingwater + Polymath Park

  In August 2011 we embarked on an architectural road trip that began in Washington D.C., progressed through rural Pennsylvania, and ended up in Chicago, where we took the Mies tour. For me Wright’s renowned Fallingwater was a disappointment. It didn’t match up to what I had imagined. While the house sat beautifully in the landscape,…

  dereksayer

  March 8, 2023

  architecture, landscape, modernism, reflections, rural

  Pennsylvania

• Mies: light, air, clarity

  The Barcelona photos were taken in April 2015, the rest in August 2011. Barcelona pavilion (1929) Lake Shore Drive apartments, Chicago (1951) Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois (1951) S. R. Crown Hall, IIT Campus, Chicago (1956) See also my post Mies #2: the Tugendhat villa

  dereksayer

  March 8, 2023

  architecture, cities, landscape, modernism, reflections, rural

  Barcelona, Plano, Spain