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There are some ninety pages of text setting forth the principles of the new style, and eighty photographs of contemporary architecture which serve the purpose of references from the text and of showing good examples of the International Style, "the only genuine architectural style since the Eighteenth century." Most books...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe worked in the same office with Walter Gropius as a young man. Two years ago he followed Gropius as director of the Bauhaus. Unlike copious Gropius, who has designed innumerable buildings, van der Rohe has actually built little-possibly because of his fondness for luxurious...
The models in the exhibit of modern architecture will be prepared by well-known American architects, among whom will be Raymond Hood, Frank Lloyd Wright and Howe & Lescaze. European architects also are preparing models for display, including Le Corbusier of Paris, J. J. Oud of Poland, and Otto Haesler, Walter...
* Negro hero of a famed slavery case which helped precipitate the Civil War. Dred Scott lost his case when the Supreme Court ruled he was not a citizen but "property." * Not to be confused (by males) with D M C," manufactured by Dollfus-Mies & Cie. of France.
After this, King Albert muttered a fervent Dieu soit loué (God be praised) and dined Colonel House. Two days later, a vast worry removed from his mind, he opened the third Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in the Palais des Académies and received a rousing...