Word: rohe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in Paris, and promptly set out on an architectural tour of Europe. They swept through Holland, then went to Berlin, where Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe were working. To this day, Mies refers to 1930 as "the year of the American invasion," for the enthusiasm of the young visitors was almost overwhelming. Two years later, with the blessings of Director Alfred Barr Jr. of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, they organized an exhibition of modern architecture that in its way was as important as the Armory Show had been 19 years earlier. Thereafter...
...tallest apartment houses ever built will start rising this summer in the heart of Chicago's downtown area, north of the Loop. Architect Bertrand Goldberg, 46, a onetime student of Mies van der Rohe. devotes the first 18 floors of his pair of circular towers to a spiral ramp for automobiles, and the top 40 stories to pie-shaped apartments, each with its own balcony. Called Marina City, the project will fill a 3.1-acre plot, now occupied by a railroad siding bordering on the Chicago River hard by the famed Wrigley Building, will include drydock storage space...
Most bright new comets in the architectural sky soon settle into orbit around such suns as the late Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago's Mies van der Rohe or France's Le Corbusier. It is a rare one that grows to be a force in his own right. For architectural stargazers, the most exciting new arrival is crew-cut Paul Rudolph, 41, who two years ago was appointed chairman of Yale's department of architecture, and is already beginning to collect a few satellites...