Rectangle ensembles

Liudmila Konstantinova at Saatchi Gallery, London 2012:

A poster found in Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2012:

Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Floor plan of Richard Meier's 1985 Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt-am-Main:

Pattern on the carpet inside the museum:

The ramp

Arrived at Berlin today, after 4 hours on a fast ICE train.  Haven't had time to visit any places yet.  In fact, most galleries are closed on Mondays anyway.  I've got my next two weeks in Berlin.  So there's no need to hurry.  Maybe I'll just write something from yesterday.

Like Le Corbusier, the ramp is a major element in many of Richard Meier's designs - both elegant and functional.  His 1985 Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt:

Meier's squares vs Ungers's squares

It's been an architecture day for me in Frankfurt.  I spent most of my day just visiting two signature buildings by two of my favourite architects.  I stayed for three hours in each of these two museums, not quite distracted by their exhibits but totally obsessed by the ubiquitous square in their design language.

Richard Meier's 1985 Museum für Angewandte Kunst:

O.M. Ungers's 1984 Deutsches Architekturmuseum:

Meier Frankfurt

Richard Meier is one of my favourite architects.  I love not only his designs but also his axonometric drawings.  I visited his Museum für Angewandte Kunst when I travelled to Germany the first time in 2005.

Meier's 1985 Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt-am-Main:

Image from Richard Meier Works and Projects, Editorial Gustavo Gili 1997