“It must be understood that all architecture is bound up with its on time” (roth 519) A quote by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe which in a stroke summarizes a large portion of the debate held throughout the explorations unit.
Through out the unit we see designers and architects struggling to create what is modern.
And although the designers and ever looking forward creating new methods and a new design language it appears that no matter how hard they try an observer can still make links back to the classical world.
In no structure is this more obvious that the farnsworth house.
The architect has created a space unlike any seen prior using new materials and methods of designing. Also lack ornamentation allows the materials themselves to become decoration. However an essence of symmetrically, proportion, unification and a liner axis can be easily seen. Through a gesture of reduction and stylization the farnsworth house still embodies the spirit of classical Greece and Rome.
This manifestation of modernism can also be related to art. In Roy Lichtenstein’s piece titled rain forest a single stylized tree is depicted. Although it speaks a very different language than actual rainforest seen in a natural landscape there are still similar elements that connect the two both aesthetically and
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