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...concrete, and in 1922 designed an office building with the continuous strip windows that are now a near cliche. He considered the room as a planning unit and concluded that it could be dispensed with, proving his contention in his famed German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. Since then, his low buildings have been characterized by a single floating roof, their spaces divided by freestanding, often movable walls that became the essential unit of his interior planning...
...Barcelona pavilion, a low-slung one-story jewel brilliantly combining such elegant materials as travertine, Tinian marble, gray glass, onyx and steel, was Mies' first major public building to demonstrate many of these concepts. It immediately established its designer as a master. The following year he replaced Walter Gropius as the director of the Dessau Bauhaus, only to close up the experimental workshop three years later in protest against Nazi restrictions. In 1938, an invitation to head the school of architecture at the Armour Institute (since renamed the Illinois Institute of Technology) led Mies to Chicago and the full...
...worried about getting gypped, wary of being misdirected or slighted, and rather homesick for America. So last week, when the Italian government notified Fielding that it had awarded him the Grand Cross of the Ordina al Merito della Repubblica, and wanted to decorate him on June 11 in Barcelona, it was in character for Temple Fielding to send regrets. He will be too busy on June 11?getting together with the givers of his college days at his 30th Princeton reunion...
Picking up a phone, he checked with the commanders of Spain's seven military districts. All but one demanded that a state of emergency be declared-and the one exception, Barcelona's leader, said he would accept nothing less than a return to full military rule. Armed with this information, Carrero consulted the three military ministers and proceeded to draw up the emergency decree. Bypassing the Cabinet's liberals, Carrero then went directly to Franco and convinced the generalissimo that the declaration was vital. Next day, at the regular weekly Cabinet meeting, Franco ordered that the decree...
...universities became prime areas of concern for the military, and in mid-January two separate incidents heightened their fears. In Barcelona, students tried to hurl the university's rector from his office window...