We trudged to the MoMA Mies in Berlin exhibition, jostled with the crowds, and have filed the following report. The exhibition is part of the revitalization of Mies underway now for the past decade after his fall from grace in the 1970s and 1980s.The MoMA event is matched, if not surpassed, by the Whitney exhibition Mies in America which we will duly report on once we have recovered from the MoMA trek. And, then, there is the Columbia School of Architecture symposium "Mies, In Effect" scheduled for September 8, 2001. That is to say, all will be revealed in due time.
Outside the Box: Mies and Mies Not
Our correspondent's review of Mies in America (at the Whitney Museum of American Art)
Levitating Architecture
Below you will find links to two reviews of The Summer of Mies filed by HM (His Majesty?) at The New York Times (login required) ... And see Paul Goldberger's recent piece in The New Yorker on Mies (at MoMA and The Whitney) and Robert Venturi (at the Philadelphia Museum of Art). Plus, don't miss Carter Wiseman, in Art News, on "Why Mies? And Why Now?" ...
Btw, Goldberger seems more interested, in his review, in the anti-Miesian games of Robert Venturi than the Real Thing. He presents Venturi as the answer to the perennial architectural quest for the Absolute; i.e., Venturi's embrace of Mannerism and incertitude versus Mies' acclaimed perfection of the ideal (classical) image of architecture.
Anyway, as long as the object of architecture is the architectural object, we object ...
The Editors
OUTTAKES
Herbert Muschamp 1 (The New York Times, 06/22/01)
Herbert Muschamp 2 (The New York Times, 07/08/01)
Paul Goldberger (The New Yorker, 07/02/01)
Carter Wiseman (Art News, 07/01)
