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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...
...times. A case in point is the latest John F. Kennedy memorial, this one to be raised by a Dallas citizens' committee three blocks from where the President was gunned down. To design it, Dallas called in Manhattan Architect Philip Johnson, 59, codesigner, with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, of Park Avenue's Seagram Building...
...hall, which drew 520 entries from 42 countries. Five distinguished judges, including the late Eero Saarinen, finally gave the nod to Helsinki's Viljo Revell, and for good reason. Architecture was then struggling free from the glass and steel web of anonymous buildings popularized by Mies van der Rohe. With the inspiration of Le Corbusier's massive concrete government buildings in Chandigarh and Niemeyer's skyward-lofting Brasilia, architects at last felt free to conceive of civic structures as needing neither to be placed under a dome or strait-laced into an office-building suit. Revell...