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But the drawing boards hold greater changes. Beginning in early 1963, Chicago will build a 32-story, $67 million Civic Center. Using his familiar materials of glass and steel, Chicago Architect Mies van der Rohe has designed a 30-story. $50 million U.S. Courthouse and Federal Office Building. Starting from...
As a whole, Chicago's new buildings reflect the influence of Mies van der Rohe's cleanly sculpted rectangles and squares. Although a few architects are fretful ("We're going to have a fantastic glut of office space and apartments"), most are convinced that Chicago is growing...
Morse (age: 30) plays J. Pierpont Finch, a lad who is eager to score on the inside, instead of scouring the outside, of the Mies van der Rohe palace that houses the World Wide Wickets Co. Finch enters the mail room armed with apple-cheeked guile and a handbook to...
Less Was More . . . The first part of the book deals with the old masters-Sullivan, Ferret, Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Finland's Alvar Aalto. Some readers may question Jones's conclusion that Wright and not Le Corbusier was the greatest architect of their generation...
Yet Wright and Le Corbusier are not the pivotal figures of the book; instead, they are Mies van der Rohe and to a lesser degree Walter Gropius. Mies, declaring the doctrine of "less is more," gave modern architecture its greatest discipline and refinement-the spareness visible in glass and metal...