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"There is need for economic policies which will help to develop all underdeveloped countries. In the Communist countries developments are achieved through a system of forced labor akin to slavery. Living standards are kept very low and the people are forced to work very hard. In this way, railroads, power...
Fiery discontent ripped Brazil's violent politics wide open last week. After months of strikes, army and air force threats, ceaseless newspaper attacks and congressional roars for the impeachment of President Getulio Vargas, the proud old (71) Gaucho who had ruled Brazil for 18 of the past 24 years...
Mies himself has no such worries; he does not live in one of his own glass houses, but in a fusty, 30-year-old building on the North Side. There, in upholstered comfort, he smokes cigars at a furious rate (twelve to 24 daily) and thinks about the architecture of...
*Born Ludwig Mies, he appended his mother's maiden name to give himself a more resounding last name.
Fried Residents. The essence of Mies's architectural philosophy is in his famous and sometimes derided phrase, "Less is more." This means, he says, having "the greatest effect with the least means." Some of the best examples of the less-is-more approach are among the buildings Mies has...