Monday, January 26, 2009

digi-Mies

The 0's and 1's of digital language remind that at Mies' masterpiece residential highrise, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive, there are 3,000 windows for the residential units. But only two types. Narrow and wide.

It's all in how you arrange them.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Why Mies might have liked Chicago

"Chicago was  nowhere.  It had no setting.  It was something released into American space."
-Saul Bellow

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Crown Hall and Gautama

In the 5th century B.C.
Indian philosopher
Gautama teaches
"All is emptiness"