Space

Konstantin Rozhdestvensky - Suprematist Landscape (Cosmic Apparatus) - 1935

Mies van der Rohe - Glass Skyscraper Project - Elevation study - 1922

Herbert Bayer - Segesta - 1924

Projection

Mies van der Rohe - Brick Country House - 1924

František Kupka - Plan Minuscule - 1930s

Saul Bass - Film titles for The Man with the Golden Arm - 1955

A World of Artifices

"You will find yourself once again, where all is factitious and mechanical, reduction and construction: another world inside the world; a world fabricated, rigged, engineered, a world of artifices, of distortion, of adaptation, of fiction, of vanity, a world that has sense or value only for man, who is its architect."

Luigi Pirandello, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, 1926

Piet Mondrian - Composition no.10 in black and white (pier and ocean) - 1915

Theo Van Doesburg - Landscape Study for Composition XII - 1918

Mies van der Rohe - Brick Country House - 1914

Austere, Mechanical, Clearcut and Bare

"Most of us cannot state our position, and we use adjectives which in themselves do not explain what we mean, but which, for a group for a certain time, by a kind of tacit convention become the "porters" or "bearers" of the complex new attitude which we all recognize that we have in company, but which we cannot describe or analyze. At the present time you get this change shown in the value given to certain adjectives. Instead of epithets like graceful, beautiful, etc. you get epithets like austere, mechanical, clearcut and bare, used to express admiration." 

T.E. Hulme, Modern Art and its philosophy, in Speculations, 1924

Hans Hollein - Alles ist Architektur - 1968

via Sock Studio

Mies Van Der Rohe - Group of three court houses - 1938

Duilio Cambellotti - Plaster model of stage set for the theban cycle at the Roman theatre - 1924.

"But this wholly dynamic way of looking at things is repugnant to the reflective consciousness, because the latter delights in clean cut distinctions, which are easily expressed in words, and in things with well-defined outlines, like those which are perceived in space"

Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An essay on the 
Immediate Data of Consciousness, 1889

The Eyes of Big Children

"Roses and dreams,
Debased by poets,
will unfold
in a new light
for the delight of our eyes
the eyes of big children."

Vladimir Mayakovski, The 150,000,000, 1919-1920, 

quoted in ‘Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist,’ John Berger, 1997

Jean-Leon Gerome - Phryne revealed before the areopagus - 1861

George Kolbe - Der Morgen - 1925,
(in the reconstructed Mies Van der Rohe German Pavillon, 1929 in Barcelonna.)

Jihad

"The image of the Reichsminister for Propaganda and Enlightenment, 

Joseph Goebbels, encouraging Mies van de Rohe to tender for prestigious 

regime projects encourages us to 'revisit' the whole subject of Nazism's 

famed jihad against modernism."
Roger Griffin, Modernism and Fascism, The Sense of Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler, 2007

 Mies van der Rohe - Reischsbank Proposal - 1933

Walter Gropius - Reichsbank Proposal - 1933

Heinrich Wolff - Reichsbank - 1934 - by Gary Catchen

Frozen Music

"Architecture in general is frozen music"
Friedrich Von Schelling, Philosophy of Art, 1802

Mies Van der Rohe - Barcelonna Pavillon - 1928/29

Luis Barragan and Andre Casillas - Stable, Horse pool and House - 1967/69 -

 by Renee Burri

Ibarra Rosano Design Architects - Winter Residence - 2005 - 
by Bill Timmerman

 Niall McLaughlin Architect - House at Goleen - 

via Snake Ranch