“The Way We Live Now, Modernist Ideologies at Work”, 2015
Curator: James Voorhies (lives and works in U.S.) Description: Modern architecture had high aspirations—no less than a radical change in the structure of society, or so was the hope of modernist architects. Figures such as Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Adolf Loos pursued ideals of progress, rationality, and purity in their architecture, design, […]
Josiah McElheny, Bruno Taut’s Monument to Socialist Spirituality (After Mies van der Rohe), 2009
Artist: Josiah McElheny (born 1966 in Boston, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Hand-blown and molded glass modules, wood, and hardware. Description: “The exhibition’s centerpiece is an eight-foot tall sculpture based on Mies van der Rohe’s earliest model of a glass-clad skyscraper. Mies’s model, as depicted in a series of photographs […]
