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...night it is a giant, glowing shaft punctuating the Manhattan skyline (see color page). It is the definitive statement of what a skyscraper can be by the architect whom most purists hail as the master of glass-and-steel design: Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 71 (TIME, June...
Search for the Man. Mies van der Rohe's chance to build his first Manhattan skyscraper came through a young woman who is neither a corporation executive nor a professional architect, but has a personal interest in both Seagram's and architecture. Mrs. Phyllis Bronfman Lambert, 31, daughter of Seagram President Samuel Bronfman, was living in Europe in 1954 when she saw a magazine story about the building her father proposed to build. "I was boiling with fury," she recalls. "I wrote him that he wanted a really fine building, and he was lucky to be living...
Accent of Emptiness. Mies van der Rohe believes that "structure is spiritual"; his aim is to express the skyscraper's essential steel cage as dramatically as possible and with a maximum of economy. In the Seagram building, he did this with deceptive simplicity. To avoid the stairstep building plan that Manhattan architects have overused to meet zoning requirements (the tower must be only 25% of the site area), Mies sacrificed valuable Park Avenue frontage, threw open a wide plaza. This gave him an opportunity to create an accent of emptiness, at the same time gave his building a dramatic...
...crewcut, hard-driving Gordon Bunshaft, 48, the insurance company rapidly discovered it was dealing with a stubborn, topflight designer, with a no-nonsense approach. Architect Bunshaft, who keeps one eye cocked on Corbusier's concern with related forms, the other on Mies van der Rohe's precise, modular construction, had already put up some of the best in glass, aluminum and steel that the U.S. can boast today...
...discussion groups on the past and future of U.S. architecture. Looking back over the past 100 years, a photographic exhibit of some 200 black-and-white photographs singled out 65 high points of U.S. building, from Richard Upjohn's 1853 Victorian Wyman Villa to Mies van der Rohe's glass-and-steel Crown Hall, built last year at the Illinois Institute of Technology (TIME, July 2). Looking to the future, the A.I.A. also presented its annual awards to 20 contemporary architects. The top winner: Architect Eliot Noyes. 46, for his own Connecticut house (opposite), which also...