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Good modern architects have something which good U. S. communities want. This encouraging fact appeared two years ago in the appointment of Bauhaus-Founder Walter Gropius, professor in Harvard's architectural department, last year in the opening of Chicago's New Bauhaus. This week it appeared again when...
* And also site of Mies van der Robe's famed hillside house, the Chartres of modern architecture.
To the U. S. man-in-the-street 15 years ago, the name Frank Lloyd Wright meant, if anything, the builder of a hotel in Tokyo which by some engineering magic withstood the great earthquake of 1923. To the U. S. man-in-the-subway, his name was associated with...
Relinquished by Gropius in 1928, the Bauhaus was directed successively by Functionalist Hannes Meyer and by Mies van der Rohe, a German architect famed for the elegance he has added to functionalism. In 1932 the school in Dessau had to be closed because an unfriendly Nazi Government would no longer...
Modern architecture in Europe has reached a definition of style through the work of three leaders, Le Corbusiner in Paris, Ouid in Rotterdam, and Mies Van der Rohe in Berlin. In the last decade their style has become international. The design depends principally upon the function which the building is...