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William J. Mitchell, professor of architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA, yesterday confirmed his acceptance of Harvard's offer, effective next fall. He is slated to teach and conduct research in the areas of architectural design, design theory and computer applications in architecture.
A member of the UCLA faculty since 1970, Mitchell has published several books and reports, including "Computer Graphics for Architects and Designers" and "Computer Aided Architectural Design." The latter is regarded as the definitive text on the subject.
Mies, meanwhile, was taking the logic of the empty architectural box to its unnatural extreme in the U.S. His campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology is a grove of steel ectoskeletons, essentially giant one-room buildings. The Farnsworth House (1951), a planar H-beam box floating over a floodplain...
The MOMA exhibit does show off Mies' absolute strengths. Like Sir Isaiah Berlin's hedgehog, he had one big idea, and he thought it all the way through. No architect since has done work of such internal coherence. The openness of buildings like Farnsworth is bracing. His best designs have...
Moreover, at MOMA one does not see any work of Mies' legion of followers, the modern architects who have remade and ravaged downtowns from Los Angeles to Riyadh. Mies was personally taciturn, but his vision was evangelical. He claimed that he had the answer, that his modern style was an...