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Succeeding generations will know Mies' name, and perhaps even apply it to the epoch. Mies laid down a fundamental creed of honest structure. Skin-and-bones architecture, he called it. Born in 1886 in Aachen, Germany, he received no formal architectural education. But he learned from his father, a master stonemason, to value the particular heft and quality of pure materials. One of his first jobs consisted of designing stucco ornaments for a local architect-"full-size details of Louis XIV in the morning, Renaissance in the afternoon." The experience left him with a lasting disdain for the falseness...
...years and will be divided into two main phases: 1) an effort to show that the damage was indeed caused by thalidomide; and 2) an attempt to prove that Grünenthal's executives were knowingly responsible and negligent. Last week, in a courtroom in Alsdorf, near Aachen, the prosecution moved deep into Phase...
...graduated from an Essen Gymnasium at 17, then dutifully went off to Munich, and later Aachen, to study engineering. Only once did he rebel against his father, by marrying blonde, once-divorced Anneliese Bahr...
...obscure German nobleman named Rudolf of Habsburg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1273 when an assemblage at Aachen shouted "Fiat...
...imported scholarly monks and artisans from Italy, Spain, Ireland and England to convert Aachen into St. Augustine's Civitas Dei, the divine city, in the barbarian heartland of Europe. He encouraged one monk, Alcuin, to make script more readable; Carolingian minuscule is still the foundation for the text type used in present-day printing. He built an octagonal chapel that still stands in Aachen, along the lines of the mosaic-coated San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. He even stole marble columns from Ravenna to make his church more authentic...