Transfiguration of Mies's Country House in Brick
2014
Many of Mies’s early houses, as spatial and conceptual constructs, denote a figuration of absence, yet negative figuration is absent in the Brick Country House. After 1923, he never returned to the brick bearing wall as a structural system that also defined space fluidly. This abandonment of the positive figure as an operative spatial device, and his omission of this project from the G exhibitions, constitutes the Brick Country House as the first ruin of modern architecture. This project explores that ruin.
︎︎︎ Fred & Mary Smith Gallery, Fay Jones School of Architecture.
︎︎︎ Fred & Mary Smith Gallery, Fay Jones School of Architecture.
︎︎︎ index of diagrams showing process of transformation
︎︎︎ axonometric
︎︎︎ roof plan
︎︎︎ ground floor plan
︎︎︎ mies's country house in brick. digitally redrawn.
© Paul Mosley