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Guns & Discipline. The wonder is that Africa's military revolution was so long in coming. The stage had long been set for change, and the armies were the only force capable of bringing it about. Opposition politicians were either exiled, imprisoned, scared or bought off, and labor unions were...
Form, Not Function. To prove that his precisely disciplined structures are in tune with a scientific, technological and industrial society-and can range from everyday prose to high poetry-Mies singled out from a lifetime's work his half-dozen favorite buildings. In order, they are:
> The Chicago Federal Center, still under construction, and Mies's largest complex of high-and low-rise buildings.
The Right Track. For Mies, such buildings give ample proof of the diversity possible within the unity of a strict structural discipline, one that he has applied to everything from a skyscraper to a chair (the chair, he confessed, was more difficult). "I have tried to make an architecture for...
As Mies admits, by now almost everyone has tried, and results are mixed indeed. But he believes that architects should continue, and with more discipline: "You certainly will see the difference in the finished buildings, between the greater and the lesser talents. But at least they would be on the...