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Tag Archives: Modern Movement

Barcelona Pavilion – Less is Definitely More

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Karen Blaylock
The Pavilion seen across The Main Pool

As a precocious 17 year-old, intent on studying architecture, what could be more appropriate for me, than asking for a book on Mies van der Rohe as a school prize? I became a devotee, and when Mies died in 1969, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, Spain | Tagged Barcelona, Catalonia, Catelonia, Mies van der Rohe, Modern Movement, Spain

De la Warr Pavilion – An Ocean Liner at last Grounded in a Landscape

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Karen Blaylock

For some years, I lived in the delightfully quaint hill town of Rye, with its mix of black-tarred timber warehouses, steep cobbled streets and half-timbered cottages; an island rising out of the Romney Marshes, that mysterious landscape of big skies, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Chermayeff, Mendelsohn, Modern Movement, Sussex, West Sussex

Mien Ruys’s Gardens for the People

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Karen Blaylock

Whilst staying in Amsterdam at one of those late 17th century canal-side houses, I mentioned to my friends that I was going to see Mien Ruys’s garden at Overijssel the following day. Imagine my surprise when they said they thought … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, Netherlands | Tagged Holland, Modern Movement, Netherlands

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