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u/retrovaporizer · 10 pointsr/chicago

Youd enjoy this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Chicago-David-Garrard-Lowe/dp/0226494322

hundreds of pages of photographs of all the gems this city demolished...it can be pretty painful to get through

that said, I do love Mies' designs. i could sit in Daley Plaza from sunrise to sunset on a and just watch the way the light plays with and interacts with the lobby and the glass of the building. its sublime. and at night it transforms into this perfect box of glowing simplicity and refinement. i think his designs can be hard to love at first glance, but when you really just stop and allow yourself to study what it was he was doing, and how well he executed it, you can start to appreciate what a genius he was.

also have to understand that he was ushering in an entirely new idea with modernism in design. the rejection of ornamentation and instead elevating and celebrating the architecture and form of the building itself was forward thinking and a revolutionary idea for its time. now of course every other building is some knock off of this idea, but when you compare the knock offs to Mies' buildings, you also start to see just how much care and attention he paid to small details and materials. some might consider it austere and clinical, but i think in a hectic world filled with chaos and information overload, his designs now more than ever are an expression of contemplative and meditative spaces that are increasingly lacking

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the irony is, to your point, we did have a neo-classical revival to an extent in the form of Post Modernism. the Harold Washington Library is a great example of this. unfortunately, a lot of the other designs that came out of that style didnt use the same level of craftsmanship, or they substituted concrete instead of using real brick. as a result, a lot of them have not aged that well and just come of looking kind of poorly executed and cheap.

u/jjlew080 · 2 pointsr/chicago

I'm going to assume you have this book, or have seen it, but if not, its a must have. Lost Chicago

u/bettorworse · 2 pointsr/chicago

Lost Chicago is a good book. It looks like you can get the hardcover for 98 cents! (Probably $28 shipping cost)

u/dronebro · 1 pointr/chicago

I'd recommend taking this book out from the library:

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Chicago-David-Garrard-Lowe/dp/0226494322

its just incredibly sad the history and beauty we've thrown in the garbage