"The Bauhaus believes the machine to be our modern medium of design and seeks to come to terms with it."
Masters of World Architecture: Walter Gropius
i went to a library sale a few weeks ago, and have been poring through a modest pile of great vintage books. i got an incredible copy of the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov (ach! is the current state of the world economy some sort of Seldon Crisis?), 3 great architecture books about Eric Mendelsohn, Walter Gropius, and Eero Saarinen (haven't started this one yet!) and a pile of others yet to be explored...
Hey! are those slobots next to 1930's German architecture! i
KNEW it!
FYI, you can get a print of this image in my etsy shop:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25500472
At least, that is according to Matthew Nowicki, a twentieth century architect that was a colleague of Eero Saarinen. Like Saarinen, Nowicki died young in 1960. here is a quote that i just read from one of my library sale finds in the Eero Saarinen architecture book:
"Art tends not only to discover the truth but to exaggerate and finally distort it. And, maybe in this distortion lies the essence of art."
deep, contemplative stuff indeed. here are a couple of images of his most famous architectural piece, a pavilion at the state fairgrounds in Raliegh, NC...
