Mies: The Window Framed.

Fabrications | December 1, 2008| | Copyright

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Many years ago, on visiting a retrospective show of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's drawings and full-size models in the Museum of Modern Art, this author was astonished at how formative was the tectonic of column/wall for the German architect's work. One consequence of this encounter was an essay where an attempt was made to associate Mies's experimentation with the tectonic of column and wall with Leon Battista Alberti's discourse on the same subject. (1) Though well received, the essay stopped short of making a speculative ...

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