To begin with, Mies
Van de Rohe has said this famous motto – “Less is more”. It became the symbolic motto of Modernist
Architecture. It is remarkably unornamented, practical, and functional.
Seagram Building is a
steel structure, glass and concrete edifice with non-structural I-beams wrapped
around it vertically. There are a few ‘betrayal’ mistakes of an ideal
modernistic principle that Mies had made in this building:
1. Decoration in steel I-beams: Decoration = Ornament = Crime!
According
to Loos’s “Ornament and Crime”, this is obviously count as a crime because it
just stick there covering up the concrete columns that hid the spectacle
structure (for a modernist…). The steel I-beams do not perform a functional
matter. Instead it is an exaggerated portion of the hidden beams. Doubling the
amount of steel beams are not exactly what “Less is more” is about. That would
end up a great amount of money needed, and source too. Loos would drop his jaw
over how modernist cost less in this case (the Seagram building were the world
most expensive skyscraper at that time). These I-beams are just a new form of
ornament for modernism style, which may look very non-bourgeois, very plain. In
the other hand, Mies needed to respect Bauhaus principle of disclosure of
structural basis. This expression of structure is quite important in Bauhaus
style.
2. Brass-colored glass walls: Despite the Bauhaus style, the brass-colored glass walls were a representative symbol of a distiller company; whiskey-like color. As one of the importances of Bauhaus style is honest material, which artificial color and paint are not very appreciative, these glass walls absolutely failed this principle.
Korapin A.
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