Word: rohe
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Joining Mercedes in the frontcourt is sophomore forward Jake Rohe, one of the most improved players in the Ivy League. Rohe, after averaging only two points and two rebounds per game last season, has stepped up for the Big Red as a secondary interior option, averaging close to nine points and over six rebounds a game this season...
...glass Parthenon, like Mies van der Rohe's National Gallery in Berlin, or an elaborately "timeless" spatial event, like Louis Kahn's Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. It is not an operatic signature building, like Frank Gehry's titanium-sheathed meganautilus in Bilbao, Spain. Still less is it a feat of conspicuously externalized luxury, like Richard Meier's Getty Center, poised in marble aloofness above Los Angeles...
...Modernism itself flourished in a world that had been blown away by the physical and psychic clearance project of World War II. Postwar corporations wanted triumphant office towers that owed nothing to the rubble of the old world. And in the work of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, Modernism's great pioneers, glass and steel proved capable of being worked into something not just new but superb, beautiful enough to bear comparison with the ornate and voluptuous past. But in less capable hands, or on smaller budgets, the just-so geometry of Mies--architecture for Everyman!--became architecture...