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Search for the Man. Mies van der Rohe's chance to build his first Manhattan skyscraper came through a young woman who is neither a corporation executive nor a professional architect, but has a personal interest in both Seagram's and architecture. Mrs. Phyllis Bronfman Lambert, 31, daughter...
Phyllis was promptly invited to come home and find a good architect. "I didn't think of anything else for 2½ months," she says. She went to see a friend on the staff of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, was sent down the hall to Architect...
Johnson drew up a list of the top dozen U.S. architects Phyllis might visit. Interviewing each in turn, she asked a basic question: "Given the problem of an office building in New York, who is going to make the greatest contribution?" When she discovered "everybody seemed to be talking in...
Her father invited Mies to come to Manhattan, signed him up for the building. There were some anxious hours when it developed that Chicago's Mies had no license to practice in New York, did not have the high-school education required for a license, and refused to take...
Accent of Emptiness. Mies van der Rohe believes that "structure is spiritual"; his aim is to express the skyscraper's essential steel cage as dramatically as possible and with a maximum of economy. In the Seagram building, he did this with deceptive simplicity. To avoid the stairstep building plan...