MIES VAN DER ROHE & ORNAMENTATION

Mies Van Der Rohe one of the most successful modernism architecture of the 20^th century. His work was mainly pure and modern, showing the real materials, being honest. Mies was the person who came up with the quote “Less is more”, avoiding all the elements of “bourgeols” such as ornamentation. He was able to provide functional out of the materials itself based on minimalism, which also relates to his quote “Less is more”. He started working in the US with this line of billionaire clients waiting for his design. Since he was not a bug fan of ornamentation his work was just plain walls, but then he came up with the whole wall craft out from marble, which cost about a million dollars. In my opinion that was quite against his concept because modernism was more a kind of mass production working with prefabricated materials like steel or glass and they don’t cost a lot. Another example was the “Seagram” due to the fire at Chicago forcing him to cover the I-beams, which is the main structure of the building with concrete. Another row of i-beams were established on the façade of the building because he wanted to show what was inside the concrete columns, that was totally against his style in terms of ornamentation. Because he was so famous, in the end no one really said that he was breaking his own theory.