Yehuda safran biography of alberta williams

Safran Pedro Barreto - You came to Oporto to participate in a series of conferences on the significance of Mies today. Is Mies still a reference for architecture and architects today? If something is of value than it is for any other time, thus Mies still holds a new value for new architects.

Yehuda safran biography of alberta williams: (Alberta), LL.D. (Manitoba). F.R.S.C.,

New architects have achieved the same degree of thoughtfulness that as he did, that is above all why he arouse my attention. Pedro Barreto - In the introductory essay of the exhibition catalogue you have written a genealogy of the idea of abstraction. Yehuda Safran - This exhibition is the outcome of the book. The book is not a catalogue.

It was conceived as a independent book on Mies, as a book on the concept of Mies and an examination of the issue of abstraction. Mies participated in an environment where the issue of abstraction was very important. Alois Riehl, his first client, was the most important authority and a teacher of philosophy in Berlin who taught Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

The combination of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is indeed the formulation which gave rise to abstraction in European art and architecture, especially in the Northern countries not Latin countries. There was also the teaching of Ernst Mach, very important for Central European painters, like Kupke who was the first to make abstract paintings, he was originally Czech and very much influenced by Ernst Mach.