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Born in Nuremberg, Jahn studied architecture in Munich and came to this country in 1966 to do postgraduate work at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the citadel of Mies van der Rohe's bare and square architectural puritanism. Jahn joined the firm of C.F. Murphy in 1967 and became its chief designer in 1973. The firm changed its name to Murphy/Jahn eight years later...
...where a range of goods and services is on sale. Texaco's familiar star is given new prominence by being displayed in white on a red circle against a black background. The company's black, white and red service stations have a clean, nononsense, Mies van der Rohe look. The only adornments are deadpan signs reminding customers to turn off their engines, check the oil and, with gas sales dropping because of fuel-efficient engines, urging them to get a car wash, snacks or cigarettes. To date, 94 new Texaco stations have been built and more than...
...after working for various architects in Ireland and England, Roche decided to study under Glass-Box Master Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology. After a year, Roche began bumming around the U.S. His not-so-taciturn fellow Irishman, Yale Art Historian Vincent Scully, contends that this was the time when Roche "was bowled over by the bigness and power of American industrial architecture...
...staff offices. It was conceived in the Pilgrim and Puritan tradition of early New England churches, but its form is traditional only in that the white-trimmed gray clapboard and spire convey a sense of historic continuity. The architecture is closer to the modern simplicity of Mies van der Rohe than the baroque intricacy of Sir Christopher Wren...
...when the building boom started after the war, Gropius, Le Corbusier and epigones Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Phillip Johnson dominated the profession. So Americans yielded to the wishes of their architectural betters. We had just created the American century, transformed the post-war world into an American plaything, our private domain...