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Instead of throwing that aluminum beer can in the bin, you might consider wearing it. Or so suggest the curators of "The Adventures of Aluminium, Jewellery to Jets," at London's Design Museum through Jan. 19, which polishes up the familiar stuff. Today a symbol of our throwaway culture, aluminum...
Over the past century, the clean lines of modern architecture have been making their way fitfully into churches. In a way they have been lending their validity to religion, at least in the eyes of secularized society. Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn all designed great and very...
The show at MOMA, which was organized by architecture curator Terence Riley and Barry Bergdoll, a Columbia University art professor, tries to reconcile Mies with some of his critics by arguing that he was far more preoccupied than most people realize with fitting even his starkest designs to the natural...
Mies was a man with his share of contradictions. All his life he combined the bearing and wardrobe of a bourgeois with a merciless intellectual radicalism. This may be why, with his constant cigar, he could look at times like Mephistopheles in a Brechtian update of Faust. Like Wright, he...
To an even less high-minded generation of developers and builders, Mies' elegant minimalism was simply a green light to throw up thousands of hasty glass cartons in every city and suburban office park. What we learned from those is that mediocre Modernism looks even worse than mediocre Victorian. There...