Word: rohe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Street stores and Third Avenue backwaters. Probably only in Manhattan can a decorator find a Gobelin tapestry, an Early American sideboard or a Mies van der Rohe steel chair within a few blocks...
...building's clean design results in part from Saarinen's admiration of the lines of Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in Manhattan. Saarinen decided that the only way to best the master was to be even purer. He took as his clue the words of pioneer Skyscraper Designer Louis Sullivan, "a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line." The idea of purity so ruled his design that CBS had to buy two adjoining lots for a utility building, rather than...
When Picasso's 5,000-lb. array of bronze Bathers arrived in Houston last week. Museum of Fine Arts Director James Johnson Sweeney took an anxious look around the museum's Mies van der Rohe-designed Cullinan Hall, wondering where to put them. Then Sweeney, who used to run various museums on the East Coast, recalled that he was in Texas and quickly built a swimming pool for The Bathers' ponderous plunge...
...drawing boards hold greater changes. Beginning in early 1963, Chicago will build a 32-story, $67 million Civic Center. Using his familiar materials of glass and steel, Chicago Architect Mies van der Rohe has designed a 30-story. $50 million U.S. Courthouse and Federal Office Building. Starting from scratch, the University of Illinois will build a completely self-contained campus for its Chicago division that will eventually be used by 9,000 students...
...whole, Chicago's new buildings reflect the influence of Mies van der Rohe's cleanly sculpted rectangles and squares. Although a few architects are fretful ("We're going to have a fantastic glut of office space and apartments"), most are convinced that Chicago is growing fast enough to fill the buildings that are popping up all over town. Says William Hartmann, a vice president of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: "The boom represents the solidification of the Midwest as an industrial center and as a place to invest...