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At G.M. and in his other work, Saarinen readily acknowledges a number of his father's influences: a sense of spaciousness and orderliness, the complementing of existing structures, the use of bodies of water to provide focal points, resistance to a set style, a fondness for expressive materials. But...
Saarinen readily admits Mies's crystallizing influence on his work. "Mies was a mature influence," he says. "He puts clamps on the problem." But Saarinen is no blind follower of any style. "When you do a job like this," he says of the G.M. Center, "your mind goes back...
¶ Philip C. Johnson of New York, a Mies van der Rohe purist, for a glass-paneled luxury house (owned by TV-man Richard Hodgson) in New Canaan, Conn.
Lost at Sea. For the opening night, visited by 2,500 guests, a once drab ground-floor gallery of Paris' Musee National d'Art Moderne had been transformed into a gleaming room swimming in diffused light and housing what was unquestionably the hit of the show: a handsome...
On Chicago's lakeside Gold Coast last week, builders broke ground for a pair of "glass cities." Designed by Modernist Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the project consists of two 29-story skyscrapers on one site, four 28-story structures about a mile away. The six buildings, clad...