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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's life was well timed. He was born at the right moment (100 years ago next month) and in the right place (prosperous middle Europe) to lead the radical transformation of architecture during the 1920s and '30s. He left his native Germany just ahead of...
What may be the year's most attractive new suburban campus serves students of hamburger merchandising. It is McDonald's training school and lodge at Oak Brook, Ill. The low-slung, palatial brick-concrete-and -limestone structures were designed by FCL Associates, the successor firm of Modern Master Mies van...
For Meier, 50, who recently won the commission to design a new $100 million-plus arts and humanities complex for the J. Paul Getty Trust, the problems posed by the tableware project were part of the attraction. Says he: "I was interested in objects that could be mass-produced and...
Aalto was crazy about wood. His enthusiasm grew out of a national aesthetic. Finns take an intense, quasi-mystical pleasure in their forested countryside, and timber is the country's economic mainstay. The hard, featureless blond birch that Aalto favored had been standard material for Finnish domestic objects. But...
The Manhattan-based Meier, 50, is an unrepentant modernist, an outstanding exponent of rational, functional architecture in the tradition of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. "I am often labeled a disciple of Le Corbusier," Meier says. "Sure, I think he was the greatest architect of the century. But...