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Died. Louis Skidmore, 65, co-founder (with his brother-in-law Nathaniel Owings) of the U.S.'s most uncompromisingly modern architectural firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which, beginning with Manhattan's Lever House, made stark glass-and-steel structures into the silhouette of U.S. business prestige; after a long...
For a while it seemed as if modern architecture, led by Chicago's Mies van der Rohe, had found the solution for the modern city: glass skin on steel skeletons combined functionalism and efficiency with esthetic discipline. But at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Architects in...
Street stores and Third Avenue backwaters. Probably only in Manhattan can a decorator find a Gobelin tapestry, an Early American sideboard or a Mies van der Rohe steel chair within a few blocks.
The building's clean design results in part from Saarinen's admiration of the lines of Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in Manhattan. Saarinen decided that the only way to best the master was to be even purer. He took as his clue the words...
When Picasso's 5,000-lb. array of bronze Bathers arrived in Houston last week. Museum of Fine Arts Director James Johnson Sweeney took an anxious look around the museum's Mies van der Rohe-designed Cullinan Hall, wondering where to put them. Then Sweeney, who used to...