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He was equally demanding of the building's occupants. Each day, as darkness falls, all the ceiling lights in the Seagram offices automatically turn on at a set intensity, so that the building will stand against Manhattan's evening skyline just as Mies planned that it should. Similarly...
The Most Good. "At its best, architecture touches and expresses the very innermost structure of the civilization from which it springs," Mies said. "I have tried to make an architecture for a technological society. I have wanted to keep everything reasonable and clear -to have an architecture that anybody can...
In one sense, Mies was in a state of momentary eclipse at his death. His lessons by now have been so absorbed into architectural thought that the young have often felt impatient at the Mies formulas, the "less is more," the implicitly arrogant demand to produce something more spare, more...
Austere Standard. Mies' vocabulary is one of yes and no, of the perfect and the imperfect. There is little room for adjectives or adverbs, and in the face of this unrelenting demand, lesser architects boggle or, refusing the challenge completely, invent a different vocabulary of their own.
Mies' death closed one of architecture's more glorious chapters. Along with Frank Lloyd Wright, the arch individualist who pioneered an organic approach to space, Le Corbusier, the daring gambler with expressive form, and Walter Gropius, the dogged exponent of functionalism-all dead now-he had shaped the...