[Sigia-l] Less is ... whatever

[Mary Utt]

Well...a quick Google search gives the credit to Robert Browning:

http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/lessismore/ls_s_mor.html

So it may pay (but not much) to know your poets as well as your
architects. Yes, Mies apparently did actually coin "God is in the details"
and, for completeness, it was Louis Sullivan who said, "Form follows 
function."

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> Everett, Andy:
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> > Less is More was coined by Marshall McLuhan
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> If you study architecture, the coiner of "Less is more" would be known as
> Mies van der Rohe, who, BTW, is also regarded as the father of the dictum
> "God is in the details."
> 
> Ziya
> Nullius in Verba 
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