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It was enough to make an old patriarch sorrow for his erring sons. In FORTUNE last month, Manhattan Architect Philip Johnson, a onetime disciple, had said: "This is still a period of disintegration in all the arts. There's no particular advantage to chaos, but that's where...
In modern architecture today, as Mies sees it, there are two vying ten dencies: "One has a structural basis, and you may call it the more objective. The other [Le Corbusier's] has a plastic basis, which you could call emotional. You cannot mix them. Architecture is not a...
Clarity or Boredom. In Mies's view, the new language began to be spoken about 1900, and it was first articulated not by architects but by engineers: "The most important idea in modern architecture is the skeletal idea developed right here in Chicago." In fact, it was photographs of...
It is also a philosophy that has inspired countless imitators and led to the charge that such stripped-down structures add up to monotony. Not so for Mies: "Some people say that what I do is 'cold.' That is ridiculous. You can say that a glass of milk...
Sir: Mies van der Rohe and Philip John son theorize that '"less is more." If their design for the Kennedy memorial [Dec. 24] is constructed, they will prove that "something can be nothing."