Architecture/Photography - 4. view
Mies van der Rohe and Canada
The Phyllis Lambert Connection. As a young architecture student working in the offices of Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, Phyllis Lambert became intimately familiar with the work of the German-American Bauhaus master. She convinced her father to hire him to design the headquarters for his spirit distilling conglomerate, Seagrams. The result is one of the icons of universal Modernist architecture. Top register, left to right: Mies van der Rohe and Phyllis Lambert with a model of the Seagram Building, 1955, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, architects; Kahn & Jacobs, associate architects, 1954-58. Photographer unknown; L-R: unidentified, Samuel Bronfman, Phyllis Lambert, Frank B. Whitlock, and Michael B. Grosso inspecting 375 Park Avenue, New York, at beginning of demolition for Seagram Building. Ca 1956. Photographer unknown; Toronto Dominion Centre, Mies van der Rohe with John B. Parkin & Associates, 1963-69. Panda Associates, photographer. Bottom register, left to right: Three views of the Toronto Dominion Centre, Mies van der Rohe with John B. Parkin & Associates, 1963-69, one with John B. Parkin standing in front of the building. Panda Associates, photographer; Nuns’ Island Gas Station, Verdun, Quebec. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect 1969. Repurposed by Éric Gauthier, Fabg Architectes, 2012. Steve Montpetit, photographer; Westmount Square, Westmount Quebec. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect, with Greenspoon, Freedlander and Dunne; Plachta and Kryton, 1964-1967. Olivo Barbieri, photographer. At far right: Designer unknown, poster for: “Mies van der Rohe Centennial Exhibition,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1985. (Cynthia Bookbinder Coop) (Unless otherwise indicated, all items are digital exhibition prints courtesy of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal)
Panda Associates
Toronto Dominion Centre
(Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with John B. Parkin & Associates, 1963-69)
one with John B. Parking standing in front of the building, digital exhibition prints (CAA)
Panda Associates
Toronto Dominion Centre
(Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with John B. Parkin & Associates, 1963-69)
one with John B. Parking standing in front of the building, digital exhibition prints (CAA)
Edited by Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy, and published by Albert Langen Verlag in Munich, the Bauhausbücher Series was undoubtably the most important publishing venture of the Bauhaus, and remaines one of the most important book series on Modernism: Farkas Molnar, designer, vol. 1: Walter Gropius, Internationale Architektur, 2nd. Edition (1925); Moholy-Nagy, designer, vol. 2: Paul Klee, Pedagogisches Skizzenbuch [Pedagogical Sketchbook], 2nd Edition (1925); Moholy-Nagy, designer, vol. 3: Adolf Meyer, Ein Versuchshaus des Bauhauses [An Experimental House at the Bauhaus] (1925); Oskar Schlemmer designer; Schlemmer, Moholy-Nagy and Farkas Molnár, authors, vol. 4: Die Bühne im Bauhaus [The Bauhaus Stage] (1925); Moholy-Nagy, designer, vol. 5: Piet Mondrian, Neue Gestaltung [New Design] (1925); Moholy-Nagy, designer, Vol. 6: Theo van Doesburg, Grundbegriffe der neuen gestaltenden Kunst [Principles of Neo-Plastic Art] (1925); Moholy-Nagy, designer, vol. 7: Walter Gropius, Neue Arbeiten der Bauhauswerkstaetten [New Works of the Bauhaus Workshops] (1925); László Moholy-Nagy, designer and author, vol. 8: Malerei, Photographie, Film [Painting, Photography, Film] (1925), vol. 8, 2nd Edition: Malerie, Fotografie, Film (1927); Herbert Bayer, designer, vol. 9: Wassily Kandinsky, Punkt und Linie zu Flaeche [Point and Line to Plane], 2nd Edition (1926); Moholy-Nagy, designer, vol. 10: J. J. P. Oud, Hollaendische Architektur [Dutch Architecture] 2nd. Edition (1926); Moholy-Nagy, designer, vol. 11: Kasimir Malevich, Die gegenstandlose Welt [The Objectless World] (1927); Moholy-Nagy, designner, vol. 13: Albert Gleizes, Kubismus [Cubism[ (1928); Moholy-Nagy, designer and author, vol. 14: Von Material zu Architektur [From Material to Architecture] (1929) (with English-language facsimile showing original dust jacket design: Zurich: Lars Muller, 2019). (Oliver Botar, Antoine Holtmaat, The Salgo Trust for Education)