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One has a right to expect fine detail from Mies, and the Houston museum is no letdown; every junction is the vehicle of his meticulousness, proclaiming that a millimeter's change in the thickness of a mullion flange would read as a loss. The ground-floor film and lecture...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who died four years ago at the age of 83, was by general consent one of the three grand masters of early modern architecture, along with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Mies' pure, honed elegance, as seen everywhere in his works, from his...
Until 1958, when the success of his bronze Seagram building in Manhattan changed Mies from the architects' architect to something of a general cult figure, his output of finished structures was quite small. But his final years were full of projects, the last of which is the Brown Wing...
Lofty Unconcern. Some of the impracticality of this august airport lounge is due to Mies' staff, who with the fervor of acolytes refused to "compromise" an inch on the maestro's plans. Hence the stiff lighting, the patchy services (such as an elevator too small for large-scale...
In short, it seems that Mies, like his opponent Frank Lloyd Wright in the snailly windings of the Guggenheim Museum, felt a lofty unconcern verging on arrogance toward the needs of arts other than his own. Every grand old man has a prescriptive right to his clichés. But...