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Mies in America
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(...)
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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Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
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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(...)
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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exhibitions
exhibitions
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17 October 2001 to
20 January 2002
17 October 2001 to
20 January 2002
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
14 June 1995 to 14 September 1995
14 June 1995 to 14 September 1995
Title:
Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
14 June 1995 to
14 September 1995
14 June 1995 to
14 September 1995
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
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Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
Date:
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
Title:
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
16 June 1998 to
8 November 1998
16 June 1998 to
8 November 1998
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Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
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exhibitions
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A revolutionary approach to the relationship between building and landscape, which shaped them together according to peculiarly American ideals, is the subject of Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922–1932. In this exhibition, the CCA reconstructs five unbuilt, visionary projects that imagined nothing less than a new American landscape, integrating(...)
A revolutionary approach to the relationship between building and landscape, which shaped them together according to peculiarly American ideals, is the subject of Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922–1932. In this exhibition, the CCA reconstructs five unbuilt, visionary projects that imagined nothing less than a new American landscape, integrating(...)
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
18 June 1996 to 29 September 1996
18 June 1996 to 29 September 1996
Title:
Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932
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A revolutionary approach to the relationship between building and landscape, which shaped them together according to peculiarly American ideals, is the subject of Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922–1932. In this exhibition, the CCA reconstructs five unbuilt, visionary projects that imagined nothing less than a new American landscape, integrating(...)
Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932
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A revolutionary approach to the relationship between building and landscape, which shaped them together according to peculiarly American ideals, is the subject of Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922–1932. In this exhibition, the CCA reconstructs five unbuilt, visionary projects that imagined nothing less than a new American landscape, integrating(...)
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exhibitions
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Date:
18 June 1996 to
29 September 1996
18 June 1996 to
29 September 1996
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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photographs
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Reference number:
PHCON2002:0016:011:046:001
PHCON2002:0016:011:046:001
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Date:
1971-1972
1971-1972
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photographs
photographs
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1971-1972
1971-1972
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photographs
photographs
Reference number:
PHCON2002:0016:011:043:002
PHCON2002:0016:011:043:002
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Date:
1972
1972
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photographs
photographs
Date:
1972
1972
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photographs
photographs
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Reference number:
PHCON2002:0016:011:012:002
PHCON2002:0016:011:012:002
People:
Date:
1972
1972
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photographs
photographs
Date:
1972
1972
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photographs
photographs
![View of the principal and lateral façades of the Manufacturing Building, Murray Corporation of America Assembly Plant [?], Detroit, Michigan](/img-collection/E2apeh4FSZM-krCslRt7CEmZphw=/500x375/348703.jpg)
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Reference number:
PH2000:0443
PH2000:0443
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Subject:
architecture
architecture
Date:
1929
1929
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photographs
photographs
Date:
1929
1929
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Subject:
architecture
architecture
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photographs
photographs
Title:
Cemetery, South America
Cemetery, South America
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Reference number:
PHCON2002:0016:011:044:002
PHCON2002:0016:011:044:002
People:
Date:
1972
1972
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photographs
photographs
Date:
1972
1972
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photographs
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