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Posted by Marianne Bloss on May 12, 2007, 10:59 am
Seņor Popcorn-Coconut wrote:
> Marianne Bloss wrote:
>> Warm Worm wrote:
>>
>>> ... as a prospective client, (making the obvious assumptions-- ie,
>>> it's the 30's...) what would you do?
>>
>> There was a documentation on German TV about Albert Speer. He appeared
>> to be just like many other architects: ambituous and dedicated to some
>> luxury. Watching the story of his life...I couldn't tell what I would do
>> in this situation...
>
> Paul (3D Peruna) does have a point about the retrospective nature of the
> question. For me, it might be a question of how much I knew about the
> client at the time.
True, and I also appreciate the other views, but maybe it's too
hypothetic a question.
Marianne
> Ah yes, Mies...
>
> Your response about him, and his history, as well as the responses of
> the rest of this thread spawns some reflection about influence;
> affluence, or lack thereof; personal convictions and what history
> eventually reads as.
>
> "After 1933, Nazi political pressure soon forced Mies to close the
> government-financed school, a victim of its previous association with
> socialism, communism, and other progressive ideologies. He built very
> little in these years (one built commission was Philip Johnson's New
> York apartment); his style was rejected by the Nazis as not 'German' in
> character. Frustrated and unhappy, he left his homeland reluctantly in
> 1937 as he saw his opportunity for any future building commissions
> vanish..."
> -- Wikipedia.org
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