Visiting Scholar Seminar: Paolo Amaldi
" Le Pavillon de Barcelone ou la dissociation des sens "
14 July 2005
6 November 1998
Mies in America
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
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13 March 1991 to 2 June 1991
Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure
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Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
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DR2016:0004
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Two page letter from Mies van der Rohe regarding the exterior material for the Toronto-Dominion Centre.
February 20, 1964
Lettre from Mies van der Rohe to John B. Parkin and Sidney Bregman about the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto, Canada
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DR2016:0004
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Two page letter from Mies van der Rohe regarding the exterior material for the Toronto-Dominion Centre.
ARCH273085
1978-2006
DR1994:0014:016
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- This photograph is of 19 photographic exhibition panels showing Tugendhat House (Brno, Czech Republic) [3 panels]; Pabellón Mies van der Rohe (Barcelona, Spain) [3 panels]; Promontory Apartment Building (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; 860 and 880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; model for Cantor Commercial Center Office Building (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; model for Cantor Drive-in Restaurant (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; and various Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois) buildings including the Boiler Plant [2 panels], Minerals and Metals Research Building [1 panel]; unidentified views [2 panels]; and perspective drawings for unidentified buildings [2 panels].
architecture, exhibition design
negative exposed between 1949 and 1969
View of exhibition panels showing various projects by Mies van der Rohe
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DR1994:0014:016
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- This photograph is of 19 photographic exhibition panels showing Tugendhat House (Brno, Czech Republic) [3 panels]; Pabellón Mies van der Rohe (Barcelona, Spain) [3 panels]; Promontory Apartment Building (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; 860 and 880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; model for Cantor Commercial Center Office Building (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; model for Cantor Drive-in Restaurant (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; and various Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois) buildings including the Boiler Plant [2 panels], Minerals and Metals Research Building [1 panel]; unidentified views [2 panels]; and perspective drawings for unidentified buildings [2 panels].
architecture, exhibition design
DR2002:0013:001
portrait
ca. 1940
Mies van der Rohe, Thomas Burleigh, Donald Monson, and Earl Bluestein at the Art Institute of Chicago
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DR2002:0013:001
portrait
Mies van der Rohe regardant par une fenêtre du 860 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago, Illinois
PH1986:0427
architecture, interior design, portrait
between 1952 and 1953
Mies van der Rohe regardant par une fenêtre du 860 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago, Illinois
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PH1986:0427
architecture, interior design, portrait
ARCH270815
1978-2006