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It is significant that two of the six contemporary churches pictured are Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod churches. We have been aptly described as the most conservative in doctrine and the most progressive in architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe notwithstanding, it is not technology that is building these houses of...
Temples on Human Scale. The new churches first of all bear witness that congregations today are determined to reassert their place in a highly secular century. "This is not a great cathedral-building age, like the Middle Ages." Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe says, "Today...
If the drama was drowned by the farce, what turned out was, still, highly entertaining and colorful. The stage was fully used for magnificent and flourishing movement while the costumes and set added a fine array of color. Carol Lee Dixon's setting in the style of Mies van der...
But Johnson had come to believe that "the duty of the artist is to strain against existing style." Goethe's stern commandment-"the pilaster is a lie"-was no longer a sufficient rallying cry as it had been for Mies's generation, and the man who had done...
High up in his office in Manhattan's Seagram Building, which he helped Mies build. Johnson is apt to feel a bit wistful about the old days. "Of course I'm nostalgic for the old period of battle when we all fought for the International Style. Everyone hates...