Mies’s signature
phrase means that an
understanding and appreciation of nature, has more impact than Complexity and Contradiction in
Architecture. Elegance, he
believed, did not derive from abundance. Like other modern architects, he
employed inherited artistic
conventions, through form and colour, represent nature in art.
Robert
Venturi, who had teasingly answered Mies van der Rohe’s dictum “understanding and appreciation of nature” by declaring “design small and efficient spaces” published a book calling for less decoration, properly deployed and clever employ modern materials such as metal, glass.
John Ruskin
believed that all great art should communicate to the landscape where the building located. Buildings were
not just independent, he said; they could inspired by environment. As such, architecture should respect nature, adapt environment, combine with nature, through more decoration, materials, symbolism, color, pattern response nature when form Architecture.
