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...Towers by architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, SOM, Marcel Breuer and Gio Ponti, and brutalist suburban campuses, have had mixed fates....
...Slamming modernist icons such as Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe will only deepen the scorn. “You ought to have more respect,” says one architect....
...While it’s home to the legendary CN Tower (once the tallest freestanding structure in the world until it was usurped by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2007) and a few glossy black Mies van der Rohe skyscrapers...
...I have Mies van der Rohe and Hans Wegner chairs; architects often like uniformity but I like to experiment with different styles....
...In contrast, Mies van der Rohe’s attitude towards collaboration was this: “when an idea is good and it is a clear idea — then it should only come from one man.”...
...I advised its owner, Tilman Fertitta, on the acquisition of works by Frank Stella and Alex Katz. In the Museum District there is Hotel ZaZa, with its spectacular skyline views....
...His best-known project, arguably, was an attempt to bring Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to late 1960s London, with a tower beside Mansion House. The project crashed in a reaction against modernism....
...One Waldorf regular over the years was Phyllis Lambert, architect, client for the nearby Seagram Building by Mies van der Rohe and founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal....
...Frank Gehry might be best-known as the architect behind the Guggenheim in Bilbao, but he also designed a little house in suburban Santa Monica....
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...His industrialised Fagus Factory of 1914 had predicted a frank functionalism but with highly faceted glass walls (crystals of the right-angled sort)....
...Milton Keynes was to be an eclectic fusion of cultural and aesthetic influences: mysticism and Mies van der Rohe, psychedelia and Stonehenge, suburbia and pop art....
...I have several architectural heroes, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Eduardo Souto de Moura – I love his work on the Santa Maria do Bouro convent....
...Mostly it seems to be a horizon hovering over Mies van der Rohe. There’s a lot of history left out. Couldn’t it have equally been Make History New?...
...Still, I knew that RFR Holding, new owners of the Seagram Building designed by Mies van der Rohe, wanted to attract a younger crowd, especially in the evening....
...Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and the rest were profoundly affected by the German publication of Wright’s oeuvre in 1910, even though Wright himself was, by then, out of fashion at home....
...Her good friend Frank Gehry even said after her death that she had become “one of the guys”. In 2007, Hadid said to me “If I was a man, do you think I would be called a diva?...
...High and low, black and white, multimedia and multicultural, confront each other across Frank Gehry’s playful, sail-like post-modern building....
...An architectural sketch or drawing by Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe, by Palladio or Wren is an artefact imbued with the spirit of its maker....
...My architectural ambition was fuelled around the age of 14 by a passion for drawing, reading about Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier — and careers advice against it....
...The invention of the skyscrapers, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe . . . This biennial is an ode to the city’s past and an echo to our future.”...
...Ernest Hemingway lived here, just around the corner from arguably Chicago’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright....
...Think of Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier or Oscar Niemeyer. The exceptions have been architects who have grouped together....
...The big names are present too: Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Aldo Rossi....
...The next big move forward came after the war with SOM’s Lever House (1952) and then Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building (1958), both in New York....
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