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Temples on Human Scale. The new churches first of all bear witness that congregations today are determined to reassert their place in a highly secular century. "This is not a great cathedral-building age, like the Middle Ages." Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe says, "Today, if you tried to build a cathedral, you would succeed only in building a big church. Not religion but technology is the controlling spirit...
...drama was drowned by the farce, what turned out was, still, highly entertaining and colorful. The stage was fully used for magnificent and flourishing movement while the costumes and set added a fine array of color. Carol Lee Dixon's setting in the style of Mies van der Rohe offered tremendous variety in its simple starkness. Quite frank and open, it consisted simply of a scaffold structure with spotlights and a variety of drapery appended. The lighting, by Allen Klein, was certainly dramatic enough but often failed to adequately illuminate the actors. Harriet Kaufman Levi's costumes, however, are without...
...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...
...first houses proved beyond a doubt that he was indeed the devoted disciple of Mies van der Rohe. But for all their austerity of line, there was a special elegance that was Johnson's own. His famous private houses, like the Rockefeller guest house in Manhattan and his own glass house in New Canaan, Conn., were graced with pavilions, pools and inner courts. Simplicity and luxury went together, and the houses lent themselves to both casualness and ceremony...
...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...