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It is easy to throw stones at the glass houses of Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. To traditionalists, who want their living and working places to combine comfort and beauty, Mies's stark, steel-ribbed structures seem as sterile-and ominous-as a steer's skeleton burned...
Since he settled in the U.S. in 1938, after shutting down Germany's famed Bauhaus rather than submit to the cultural dictates of the Nazis, Mies has led his crusade from Chicago. As director of architecture for the Illinois Institute of Technology, he has passed along his revolutionary theories...
Skin & Bones. Mies has designed for Illinois Tech a striking, one-story glass-and-steel box, in which his theories are given full expression. The new building, to be ready next summer, achieves Mies's "universal space" by having a 120-ft. by 220-ft. area completely free of...
Mies is not ashamed of girders or any other structural element that is usually hidden. In his prewar European constructions, as in his later skin & bones designs in the U.S., he seems bent on showing the skeleton of the building. This stems from his contention that modern architecture should be...
As in most big business today, the firm's triumphs are the result of group effort. Louis Skidmore, 55, and his cofounder, Nathaniel A. Owings, 49, were both trained in the Beaux Arts ("best things of the past") tradition, but quickly looked beyond it. With John Merrill, 55, and...