Chicagoist: IIT: Get a "Better" Architect

architect

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:25:19 -0600

Really, I get a little pissed off when other architects get on people for saying anything remotely critical of oh dear god all gods Mies. "what, architectural geniuses, Mies van der Rohe, Rem Koolhaas and Helmut Jahn won't cut it?" in other words, "you don't think Jesus, oh I mean Mies, Rem or Helmut are worthy enough for you? Then you must be a tasteless uncultured philistine who will go to architecture hell when you die" Mies is just another architect and not everybody likes is boring crap. Get it Straight! Famous Architects are NOT Gods In your Holy Architecture Church, Mies may be God but to everybody else he is Joe Schmoe.

chicagoguy

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:24:26 -0600

Having attended IIT, I will jump off the bandwagon and defend Mies for depressing the many years I was there with his bleak, dark and very right-angular design of how life should be if earth lacked green trees, green grass, curves and anything to evoke pleasurable emotions and happy thoughts

Navin

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:45:39 -0600

The dead trees & gray sky give it the impression that you're in post-war Eastern Europe, and your potato crop has failed & all you have to survive on is right angles & mathematics. Ha, yeah all bandwagon and say that made me laugh. Nice one.

spookhatespuppies

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:17:59 -0600

+1 to Rocketslide

mojowen

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:12:40 -0600

I mean there's nothing like the loving embrace of right angles to get you through the hard winter...

mike_thoms

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:06:33 -0600

I wonder how many of the other 19 schools on that list have several buildings designed by world-famous, well-respected and similarly-hyphenated architects. I think that's the reason why IIT doesn't belong on the list. Does it look like Pepperdine in the middle of the winter? not really, but what in chicago really does? Our great architecture is just one of the things that gets us through the cold, gray, winters and keeps us from fleeing to warmer climates.

matty

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:02:28 -0600

"The dead trees & gray sky give it the impression that you're in post-war Eastern Europe, and your potato crop has failed & all you have to survive on is right angles & mathematics. A little Mies goes a long way." best post ever. hahhaahaha.

rocketslide

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:54:53 -0600

IIT does have some cool buildings, but if you've ever seen the campus in the winter, you will understand why it made this list. The dead trees & gray sky give it the impression that you're in post-war Eastern Europe, and your potato crop has failed & all you have to survive on is right angles & mathematics. A little Mies goes a long way.