Mies van der Rohe's drowning!

in honour of london design week, i thought i'd post this. after all the rain and flooding in the us midwest, mies van der rohe's farnsworth house is under a metre of water. tragedy.

this is what it's supposed to look like:

it's a shame it's not under 3 metres of water.
then i wouldn't have to look at any of it.

oh. come. on. the farnsworth house is argueably the single most important piece of residential architecture from the 20th century. it's an important piece of our cultural heritage. wether or not you'd like to live there, you can at least appreciate its importance, and the tragedy that it's now suffered this damage.

beautiful? practical?

Teddy, your mercian was a tragedy, this on the other hand? Even the mona lisas falling apart.

sorry.
4 metres of water.
"single most important piece of residential architecture".....whatever floats your boat. (no pun intended).

sigh. heathens...

sigh. architects...

it looks like a porch without the house...

it's not damaged to the point of no return is it? I'd thought Prouve is arguably more important, especially his beautiful kit house.

Amazing house. I hope it's not too damaged. Kind of ironic that even on stilts it got flooded though.

Mies van der Rows da Boat

A very sad sight.

My vote for single most important of 20th C goes to Fallingwater

This got wiped out the other day too.....

such a shame.

A very sad sight.

My vote for single most important of 20th C goes to Fallingwater

now it would be a shame to see that go.

My vote for single most important of 20th C goes to Fallingwater

What for proving you have to have an amazing amount of money and/or access to land, preferably in acres of secluded woodland or a wild forest replete with cliffs and waterfalls to have a home like that?

The first guy should have built a treehouse, or away from a floodplain.

My vote for single most important of 20th C goes to Fallingwater

What for proving you have to have an amazing amount of money and/or access to land, preferably in acres of secluded woodland or a wild forest replete with cliffs and waterfalls to have a home like that?

The first guy should have built a treehouse, or away from a floodplain.

Now now, don't bring the end-of-civilisation thread attitude over here!

It might be because I feel it was possibly the first successful attempt at organically integrating a modern design into a landscape. More likely it is because it was the first building I ever saw that really made me think "wow" - when I saw it when I was eleven - and it swung my ambitions towards architecture (not that they stayed there).

As always, just my tuppence.

:)

tom thought you were more of a tent/tree house man myself... temporary structures that leave no trace ftw. IMO these guys/girls that insist that they have to leave their penis/tits all over the place piss the fuck out of me.

IMO these guys/girls that insist that they have to leave their penis/tits all over the place piss the fuck out of me.

:)

Aren't you an architect, shin?

he's an artichoke

nope work for an architects...

RMP you are a pilchard

As a dutchman he should know that water always wins though.