Mies in America.(artist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)(Brief Article)

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK

In appraising its acknowledged masters, architectural history is usually content with a single version: Wright the troubled genius, Le Corbusier the painter in planner's clothing, Gropius the ideologue who lacked an artist's chops. Among the twentieth century's Big Four, only Ludwig Mies van der Rohe persists in multiple. As the architectural historian Joan Ockman observes, "We have proliferated a dizzying array of Mieses--a European Mies, an American Mies; a classicizing Mies, an expressionist Mies; an Adorno-critical Mies, a ...

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