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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Lake Shore Drive Apartments. Chicago

- October 7, 2009. 08:25

Living on top: the tower

Between 1945 and 1951, Mies van der Rohe built two 26-storey towers on the banks of Lake Michigan in Chicago. These two towers, numbers 860 and 880 on Lake Shore Drive, are two identical prisms, the direct result of an attempt to give shape to an idea, that of the glass skyscraper. With these two buildings, the progress of American technology can be identified with an architecture based on strict constructive principles, on slenderness and transparency.

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God, money and details

Javier Mozas - October 2, 2008. 16:10

In the Students’ Center of the IIT (published in a+t 23. New Materiality I), Rem Koolhaas has hacked off the rosy cheeks of Mies, soiling the candor of Augustinian truth with abject materials. In an interview he states that here he doesn’t use a wide range of materials. In the end, he says, he uses a limited palette, just like Mies.
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Archived in: Javier Mozas Mies van der Rohe Chicago OMA a+t 23. New Materiality I

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MIES-OMA. IIT Chicago

- October 2, 2008. 12:45

IIT Chicago, published in New Materiality I

In his first project in America, Mies puts his Puritan philosophy to practice (see The moral condition of materials, by Javier Mozas) and, adapting to the urban grid of Chicago, he lays out a campus split into two by the elevated tracks of the Chicago L.
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Archived in: The City Civic Facilities Javier Arpa Koolhaas, Rem Mies van der Rohe Chicago OMA a+t 23. New Materiality I

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Miestakes

- May 29, 2008. 17:44

Article written by Rem Koolhaas, published in a+t 23. New Materiality I

Trouble. According to statistics, a student and his or her parents decide, within five seconds of arrival, whether to apply to a given university or not.
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Archived in: Civic Facilities Koolhaas, Rem Mies van der Rohe Chicago Rem Koolhaas a+t 23. New Materiality I

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The Architecture of Value Engineering

- May 27, 2008. 15:54

Article written by Aaron Betsky

The new Student Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology marks the transition from the era of “God is in the detail” to that of “No money, no details”. From Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s fetishism about the appearance of construction and its absolute relationship to the modulation of spatial relations we have arrived at Rem Koolhaas’ desire to make buildings that are appropriate and critical condensers of existing technologies and social relations into spaces so complex that they cannot be defined in static terms and planes that graphically represent those enabling conditions.
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Archived in: Civic Facilities Koolhaas, Rem Mies van der Rohe Aaron Betsky Chicago a+t 23. New Materiality I

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