Tag: Mies van der Rohe

Rafael Pérez Evans – interview: ‘Food contains a lot of emotion’

The artist talks about growing up in a farming community in rural Spain, queer and rural shame, and the importance of reuniting living, thinking and making through a practice that disrupts
Enoc Perez – interview: ‘I’m trying to create my own little encyclopaedia of cool’

The New York-based painter discusses his new show, The Cinematic Self, at Ben Brown Fine Arts, his painterly process, the interiors that excite him, and his approach to turning 50
Book review: The revision of the modern: seeking the real narrative

Sadly, this important study was published just before the author’s untimely death earlier this year. Paul Overy was a well-recognised author dealing with 20th-century art and architecture
Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban

Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London 22 February-13 May 2007 A retrospective exhibition of the architecture of Alvar Aalto in central London is extremely timely. It is now almost ten years since the major exhibition was organised in New York…
Aalto Gathering in Finland

An important event in architectural terms took place this summer in Finland, where the 10th International Alvar Aalto Symposium took place from 28-30 July at Jyvaskyla, Alvar Aalto’s ‘home town’. Symposia have been held here on important topics, both practical…