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Gill felt particularly qualified for his first TIME commission because lately he has been concentrating on politics, on a group of pictures to illustrate his theory that "all people are political prisoners in the sense that they are prisoners of the system into which they are born." As for himself...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the world's greatest living architect, has long been fascinated by the idea of building museums. In 1943, he outlined his concept for "a museum for a small city" in Architectural Forum. "The first problem," he said, "is to establish the museum as a...
The fledgling company employed a 19-year-old engineer named Ezekiel Straw, who would later become Governor of New Hampshire, to lay out a brand-new town. Straw produced one of the most cohesive urban designs in the country. With the millyard as the heart of town, he provided for...
Architectural Forum
Sir: In American history, great architects, such as Bulfinch, Richardson, White, Maybeck and Wright, have created a style and generally stuck with it to the end. This is not the way of Nat Owings and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. If one looks at the works of S.O.M., there is an astonishing...