Word: rohe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend: a sweeping return to the 1930s, with its love of overstuffed furniture (one possible source of inspiration: late night replays on TV of the '30s movies) and the bright chrome chairs, tables and settees initiated by such Bauhaus architect-designers as Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe; there was even a revival of the laminated blond wood chairs made popular by Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto in the 1940s. What made the trend significant is that such furniture comes not from the avantgarde, relatively low-volume makers such as Knoll Associates and Herman Miller, but from mass manufacturers...
...granite-sheathed fagade of Manhattan's new Whitney Museum of American Art. Even in a time that has seen museum design change from the Roman palazzos favored by turn-of-the-century architects to the spiraling extravaganza of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim, and Mies van der Rohe's austere glass cube for Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, the $6,000,000 Whitney, designed by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton Smith, was the event and talk of the evening...
Today's buildings often present sleek, bland exteriors which give the impression that about all that could be going on inside is the manufacture of ice cubes. In the hands of a master such as Chicago's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (TIME, Feb. 11), glass-and-steel space containers can be very high style indeed, but too often the result is anonymity and monotony. To work their way out of this impasse, some architects now think that they have found the solution right in the heart of the building itself. They are designing buildings that 1) make...
...Added Chicago Architect Harry Weese: "Mies continues to be our conscience, but who listens to his conscience these days?" With his 80th birthday approaching and an exhibition of his drawings on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the world's greatest living architect, took time last week to affirm that he, for one, still heeded his conscience, that his faith in his own first principles was as firm as ever...
...Mies van der Rohe and Philip John son theorize that '"less is more." If their design for the Kennedy memorial [Dec. 24] is constructed, they will prove that "something can be nothing...