Word: rohe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laboratories had jumped from 72? to $2.25 a dozen. The biggest expenses: more buildings and higher faculty salaries. The University of Washington has started a $20 million building program-to complete the upper campus in "collegiate Gothic," the lower campus in modernistic glass-&-brick. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is building a functional $15 million Illinois Institute of Technology in a tumbledown neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. CalTech needs $5,000,000 just to maintain the new telescope on Palomar Mountain...
Most U.S. modernists still revere and follow in basic principles the European pioneers of the early '20s-Gropius, Oud, Le Corbusier, Miës van der Rohe. But younger architects no longer make a fetish of pure functionalism (following Le Corbusier's dictum "a house is a machine for living") and the ruthless exclusion of all ornament. While they pay close attention to the purposes of their buildings and are inclined to let structural forms speak for themselves, they are concerned about the grace of their designs. All this can be clearly seen in three of the book...