Word: draftsmen
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...More of Less." Famed for his insistence on precision in both design and execution, Mies insisted that the 4-ft. 7½-in. module for the building be rigorously carried throughout, allowed only a one-sixteenth-inch leeway even in the interior offices, hallways and shower rooms. Draftsmen on the job rapidly discovered that Mies's doctrine of "less is more" applies to work as well as design, spent weeks redesigning door handles, mail chutes and even fire alarms to put them in harmony with the building. To heighten the impact of Mies's austere geometry, the building...
...benighted contemporaries and their works. Of protean Pablo Picasso: "Bad for art; he desires to destroy much of the old tradition." Of the late Henri Matisse: "A good decorator; a good designer for fabrics." Of Salvador Dali, generally regarded as one of the world's best living draftsmen: "A genius of publicity. He can't draw." His jaundiced view of abstract art: "We're watching the end of it!" What's wrong with art critics? "Most of them are too superficial...
...panic. There was just a genuine interest which I don't believe existed a short time ago." Said a Los Angeles sales engineer: "Six weeks ago I'd walk into an aircraft plant and it would look as if everybody from the chief engineer to the draftsmen was taking a coffee break at once. When I made my rounds this week, the recreation rooms were empty. Everybody was working...
...itself. The paintings -grown familiar in countless art books and reproductions - no longer shock. In retrospect, some seem to be failures. But there remains an overwhelming sense of endless vitality and prolific invention. Each painting bears the visual impact and unmistakable stamp of authority of the greatest of modern draftsmen. The overall impression is of a great painter who has painted few absolute masterpieces, because he seldom lingered long enough with any one work to bring it to perfection. But even his failures are monumental - testament of a man made in a larger mold than any other artist...
Center of the household for Eero and his older sister, Eva-Lisa, always called Pipsan, was the 90-ft.-long, all-purpose studio and living room where the elder Saarinen worked with his draftsmen while his wife sculptured and sewed. Such a beehive of cultural activity was calculated either to smother or force the children. In the case of Eero and Pipsan, it forced...