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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...
This week, at the age of 82, Mies saw his dream come true, although from a distance. In West Berlin, the $6,250,000 new National Gallery, which he designed (and for which he laid the cornerstone in 1965), officially opened to the public. Ailing and confined to a wheelchair...
Hanging Walls. Among modern architects, Mies has always been considered the great classicist. It is thus no surprise that the Berlin museum bears a marked resemblance to a classical temple set upon a giant podium of granite-covered concrete. The podium, or semi-basement, is occupied by the burgeoning permanent...
For a time last week, rumors raced through Europe that the Soviets might straighten out a few more ideological frontiers while they were at it in Czechoslovakia. Pravda ominously charged that both Rumania's Ceausescu and Yugoslavia's Tito were siding with the "reactionaries" in the Prague regime. But both...
Nor does the U.S. lack for architects of ability, vision and daring. True, compared with many other professions, they form a thin line. There are only 29,000 registered architects in the U.S., compared with 315,000 lawyers, 315,000 doctors, 275,000 engineers, and they still have too little...