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Lecture 3: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois 1946-51 S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA The Umbrella Diagram Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House

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Lecture 3: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois 1946-51

S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

The Umbrella Diagram Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House

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“Less is more” or “Less is a bore” “Roland Barthes’s citation of ‘the boring’ as a locus of resistance…”

“the Farnsworth House reveals important deviations from the modernist conventions of the open plan and the expression of structure.”

Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup Cans 1962

According to Barthes, how is ‘boring’ good? What does he mean by ‘locus of resistance.’

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Lecture 3: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois 1946-51

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“…the Farnsworth House marks one of the beginnings of the breakdown of the classical part-to-whole unity of the house.”

Le Corbusier : Maison Dom-ino and the Maison Citrohan

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Gerrit Rietveld: Schroeder House, Utrecht, Netherlands

“…these were still single, definable entities.”

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Mies van der Rohe, Concrete Country House, 1923, Germany

“…these were still single, definable entities.”

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Mies van der Rohe, Brick country House, 1924, Neubabelsberg, Germany

“…these were still single, definable entities.”

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Mies van der Rohe, Hermann Lange House, 1927-30, Krefeld, Germany

“…these were still single, definable entities.”

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“Mies’s rejection of the part-to-whole unity is more subtle than Walter Gropius’s and Marcel Breuer’s obvious bi-nuclear houses, which are conceptually two-thirds of a Palazzo type.”

Palazzo Farnese, 16th Century, Rome, Italy

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Marcel Breuer, Bi-nuclear House, 1943

“Mies’s rejection of the part-to-whole unity is more subtle than Walter Gropius’s and Marcel Breuer’s obvious bi-nuclear houses, which are conceptually two-thirds of a Palazzo type.”

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“Heidegger’ notion of dwelling concerned the rootedness to a place: site specificity, the grounding of the subject, and ultimately the presentness of presence.”

“we attain to dwelling, so it seems, only by means of building. The latter, building, has the former, dwelling, as its goal.”

“dwelling and building are related as end and means.”

“For Mies, dwelling is an abstract series of conditions and, in the case of the Farnsworth House, the ‘dwelling’ itself offers the opportunity to enact a critical reading of modernity.”

Can you discuss the two different types of ‘dwelling?’ How is Mies’s idea of dwelling evident in the Farnsworth House?

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“it is a hinge between what modernism was in Mies and what will appear postmodern in his work.”

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“the Farnsworth House also sets up the difference between a scenographic, or postmodernist, use of architecture elements to create visual illusion, and the alternative use of the column and wall to provoke a critical reading of modernity.”

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“…used vertical walls extending and pinwheeling out from a central vortex.’”

Mies van der Rohe, Brick country House, 1924, Neubabelsberg, Germany

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“…were composed of vertical planes which no longer extended out from the main volume, but rather defined and enclosed space.’”

Mies van der Rohe, Tugendhat House, 1928-30, Brno, Czechoslovakia

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“…were composed of vertical planes which no longer extended out from the main volume, but rather defined and enclosed space.’”

Mies van der Rohe, Court Houses,1930’s

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“The walls here are no longer load-bearing, rather the columns become the load- bearing elements; the enclosing elements are distinguished from the tectonic elements.”

Mies van der Rohe, German Pavilion, 1928-29, Barcelona, Spain

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“The pavilion could be called an open plan, as opposed to a Raumplan or even a free plan…which allowed for a free movement of enclosing walls.”

Free Plan, Le Corbusier Raumplan, Adolf Loos

Discuss the difference between Raumplan, free plan, and open plan.

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Adolf Loos, Villa Muller, 1930 Prague, Czech Republic

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“Alberti said that all architecture is firmitas because all architecture must stand up, and suggests that Vitruvius was stressing firmitas not in reference to standing up, but In reference to the appearance of standing up – in other words, as the sign of structure.”

Vitruvius Commodity = usefulness Firmness = structural utility Delight = beauty

C.S. Pierce’s categories of signs Icon – visual and formal similitude Symbol – cultural meaning Index – prior activity

How do these two categorizations apply to architectural elements? Columns, Roofs, Plinths, etc?

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Discuss the difference between the Maison Dom-ino and the Farnsworth House diagrams in terms of columns.

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“…the column was a didactic mark that punctuated space in the free plan. Usually these punctuations were round, allowing space to flow freely around them.”

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoy, 1929, Poissy, France

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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoy, 1929, Poissy, France

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“Another theoretical proposition resides in the problematic of the corner...the play of solid, void, and edge are simultaneous conditions.”

Mies van der Rohe, German Pavilion, 1928-29, Barcelona, Spain

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“Another theoretical proposition resides in the problematic of the corner...the play of solid, void, and edge are simultaneous conditions.”

Mies van der Rohe, Crown Hall and IIT Campus, 1950-56 and1939-41, Chicago, Illinois

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“…the columns are no longer at the corner, neither gridding space internally nor holding the outboard corners.”

Farnsworth House

How is the use of columns different in the Farnsworth House? How is this an umbrella diagram? What does Eisenman mean by umbrella diagram?

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“The Farnsworth House is not about trabeation, but rather engages the look of trabeation in bringing the columns outboard and suspending the floor and roof slabs between the columns.”

Philip Johnson, Glass House, 1949, New Canaan, Connecticut

Why does Eisenman think a comparison to Le Corbusier’s Maison Dom-ino and Philip Johnson’s Glass House is superficial?

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“Instead the column reads as both structure and the sign of its diagrammatic condition.”

Farnsworth House

How do the columns in the Farnsworth House read as ‘structure ‘ and as a ‘sign.’

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“This thematic in Mies’s postwar work engages structure that is the sign of structure; what is seen is not the actual column, but a mask of the structure.”

What does Eisenman mean by the ‘mask of structure?’

Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building,1957, New York, New York

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Mies van der Rohe, S.R. Crown Hall,1950-56, Chicago, Illinois

What does Eisenman mean by the ‘mask of structure?’

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“The plinth and the horizontal roof plane are again conceptually different in Mies’s space as opposed to Le Corbusier’s space.”

Farnsworth House

Le Corbusier ‘s Maison Dom-ino

Discuss the differences of the plinths and roof planes in these two buildings.

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“The house seems to float above the ground, though it actually spans a ravine and is anchored at both ends.”

Mies van der Rohe, Resor House, 1937-38, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

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“This lifting of the house has a different value than Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino diagram. For Le Corbusier it signals the infinite horizontal extension of space; for Mies, it sets out the ultimate distinction between ground and the roof...”

Farnsworth House

Le Corbusier ‘s Maison Dom-ino

How does Corbusier’s plinth signal the infinite horizontal extension of space?

How does Mies’s plinth set out the ultimate distinction between ground and roof?

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“The Farnsworth House also had important implications for the 50 X 50 House...”

Mies van der Rohe, 50 X 50 House, 1950-52 Farnsworth House

What are the implications for the 50 X 50 House that came from the Farnsworth House?

Do you see any implications from other previous projects?

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“Together, the roof line and single columns produce an image of an umbrella-like structure. What follows, less literally but no less conceptually...”

Mies van der Rohe, S.R. Crown Hall,1950-56, Chicago, Illinois

Describe the umbrella diagram at Crown Hall.

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“…the umbrella effect is finally presented as concept and not image.”

Mies van der Rohe, National Gallery, 1962-68, Berlin, Germany

Explain how the diagram is finally concept and not image in the National Gallery.

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“The idea of dwelling, or use, is clearly not what is at stake...”

Mies van der Rohe, National Gallery, 1962-68, Berlin, Germany

Mies van der Rohe, S.R. Crown Hall,1950-56, Chicago, Illinois

Why does Eisenman say use is not what is at stake? What do you think , and why?

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“…it becomes clear that a scenographic condition between the viewer and the building is not what is desired.”

Farnsworth House

Why does Eisenman think the Farnsworth House is not about the scenographic condition?

What do you think about his argument?

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“The different axes formed by a series of symmetrical parts indicate that the parts do not create a whole. What seems to be a classical and symmetrical whole is rather broken down into asymmetrical dynamic parts.”

How is the bottom statement made evident by the drawing at the right?

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“Johnson’s intent is to render the surface as a vertical plane, while at the Farnsworth House, Mies renders it as absence.”

Explain how the statement below is manifest in the images above?

Philip Johnson, Glass House, 1949, New Canaan, Connecticut Farnsworth House

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How is a scenographic representation linked to postmodernism different from a critical reading of modernity’s idea of a spatial continuum?

In what way can the Glass House be read as a scenographic representation linked to postmodernism?

And, in what way is the Farnsworth House the latter?

“…columns read not for their tectonic truthfulness, or for their visual composition, but for their condition as a sign of a conceptual diagram.”

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What are these three drawings about?

Le Corbusier ‘s Maison Dom-ino and Citrohan Farnsworth House

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Why do you think the corner is designed this way?

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What are the implications for these alternative designs for the columns?

Do you think it would have made a difference is the reading of the building and why?

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Do you think this building was able to break from the classical part-to-whole relationship that Eisenman says persisted throughout previous history?