Word: rohe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, with its glassed front wall, "a manifesto" in itself, and harked to Ferret's belief that "decoration always hides an error in construction." At Behrens' studio, Jeanneret was apprenticed with the self-effacing son of a poor masonry contractor in Aachen. His name: Mies van der Rohe, who is now the U.S. mas ter of the spare glass-and-steel skyscraper. At length Jeanneret opened an office in Paris "in a beastly little street, seventh floor, over a yard, in the servant's room...
...significant that two of the six contemporary churches pictured are Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod churches. We have been aptly described as the most conservative in doctrine and the most progressive in architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe notwithstanding, it is not technology that is building these houses of worship, but it is devoted followers of Christ putting technology to work for the kingdom...
Temples on Human Scale. The new churches first of all bear witness that congregations today are determined to reassert their place in a highly secular century. "This is not a great cathedral-building age, like the Middle Ages." Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe says, "Today, if you tried to build a cathedral, you would succeed only in building a big church. Not religion but technology is the controlling spirit...
...drama was drowned by the farce, what turned out was, still, highly entertaining and colorful. The stage was fully used for magnificent and flourishing movement while the costumes and set added a fine array of color. Carol Lee Dixon's setting in the style of Mies van der Rohe offered tremendous variety in its simple starkness. Quite frank and open, it consisted simply of a scaffold structure with spotlights and a variety of drapery appended. The lighting, by Allen Klein, was certainly dramatic enough but often failed to adequately illuminate the actors. Harriet Kaufman Levi's costumes, however, are without...
...first houses proved beyond a doubt that he was indeed the devoted disciple of Mies van der Rohe. But for all their austerity of line, there was a special elegance that was Johnson's own. His famous private houses, like the Rockefeller guest house in Manhattan and his own glass house in New Canaan, Conn., were graced with pavilions, pools and inner courts. Simplicity and luxury went together, and the houses lent themselves to both casualness and ceremony...