Mies van der Bro

architectural musings and dick jokes
Happy Birthday to me, buttheads! Less is more, so don’t give me any presents. Just kidding, you can’t give me any presents because I’m dead. Bummer, huh? Thanks for the gesture though, Google. Now just fire Foster + Partners and find a new architect for the Cupertino headquarters and we’ll call it even. 

Happy Birthday to me, buttheads! Less is more, so don’t give me any presents. Just kidding, you can’t give me any presents because I’m dead. Bummer, huh?

Thanks for the gesture though, Google. Now just fire Foster + Partners and find a new architect for the Cupertino headquarters and we’ll call it even. 

For example, while we were building Aqua, the workers discovered a giant boulder under the site. We found out that there was a history behind it–that it had been moved from one site to the next. This area used to be called “The Boulder Belt” and there are boulders from the glaciers all over the place. So when people were building high-rises on Michigan Avenue, they would just roll these boulders out of the way. Then I found out that some boulders ended up becoming monuments, and others were just smashed up, and some were rolled aside. So for that chapter I decided to write a fictional history of the boulder that we’d found from its point of view.

—Jeanne Gang, ladies and gentlemen! Seriously though, throughout this whole interview, I was waiting for her and Paul Goldberger to just start fucking. Who knew books were such an aphrodisiac? Nerds…

(Source: designersandbooks.com)

So what does it mean if I kill Michael Graves in one of his own buildings? Does post-modernism become any good post-mortem? Yeah, I didn’t think so either. 

So what does it mean if I kill Michael Graves in one of his own buildings? Does post-modernism become any good post-mortem? Yeah, I didn’t think so either. 

My New Year’s resolution is to be more like H.H. Richardson and wear more druidic robes. 

Right now, this is hands down my favorite house. I love the clean lines, the extensive use of glass, the view to nature and the overall simplicity of design. 

Plus, you’d totally be able to see people doing it inside.