With the exception of some historical photographs from the Chicago History Museum and IIT's archives, the images you see on MiesSociety.org are licensed under Creative Commons. Because there are no house plans with a Creative Commons license we cannot present them on this website. We have been in talks with the Museum of Modern Art, which holds Mies' personal archive of drawings and building plans, with the hope of that they will share their extensive collection with the general public.
Similarly, we could not find photographs of certain buildings, like the Bacardi Office Complex, that were licensed under Creative Commons and therefore could not feature them on this imagery-driven site. MiesSociety.org is dependent upon photographers- both professional and nonprofessional- who make their work free. If you have photographs that we could feature, please upload them to Flickr with the tag #mies-van-der-rohe. When you work is presented on the site we will credit you as the photographer and provide a link to your website.
We realize the online archive we've created is unfinished but we are excited to see it grow through collaboration and goodwill. You can find more information about Creative Commons on their website, http://creativecommons.org/
- The Simple.Honest.Work team, designers and developers of MiesSociety.org
Very satisfactory response. I may be able to get some photos of the Bacardi Office Complex, and if so, then I will certainly make them available to your team.
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It is a nice website, but I was a little disappointed to find no plans of the houses, especially the lesser known ones.
Also, where is the Bacardi office complex??
PS-It's in Tultitlán, State of Mexico (just north of Mexico City) and was completed in 1961.
Hello Raskol44,
With the exception of some historical photographs from the Chicago History Museum and IIT's archives, the images you see on MiesSociety.org are licensed under Creative Commons. Because there are no house plans with a Creative Commons license we cannot present them on this website. We have been in talks with the Museum of Modern Art, which holds Mies' personal archive of drawings and building plans, with the hope of that they will share their extensive collection with the general public.
Similarly, we could not find photographs of certain buildings, like the Bacardi Office Complex, that were licensed under Creative Commons and therefore could not feature them on this imagery-driven site. MiesSociety.org is dependent upon photographers- both professional and nonprofessional- who make their work free. If you have photographs that we could feature, please upload them to Flickr with the tag #mies-van-der-rohe. When you work is presented on the site we will credit you as the photographer and provide a link to your website.
We realize the online archive we've created is unfinished but we are excited to see it grow through collaboration and goodwill. You can find more information about Creative Commons on their website, http://creativecommons.org/
- The Simple.Honest.Work team, designers and developers of MiesSociety.org
Very satisfactory response. I may be able to get some photos of the Bacardi Office Complex, and if so, then I will certainly make them available to your team.
...really?
ok... so, my socks weren't knocked off.
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