In 1952-1953 Mies van der Rohe built the Crown Hall in Chicago: it was to house the College of Architecture on Illinois' Institute of Technology campus. A spectacular building constructed out of steel and glass, it has no interior supports and the roof is suspended from four steel girders. In the Hall free-standing partitions subdivide the space, creating drawing rooms, a library and an exhibition room. The basement is used for offices and workshops. In Crown Hall, Mies van der Rohe's continual search for a clear expression of structure reached its pinnacle, and in this book this epochal building is presented in text and illustrations by Werner Blaser, who has worked together with Mies van der Rohe.
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This review is from: Mies van der Rohe - Crown Hall (German and English Edition) (Hardcover)
This is not a very deep look into crown hall, very thin and wanting of better drawings. I was hoping there were some other things in here that I couldn't find in my other books about mies, but other books i have cover this building about the same as this entire book, namely "The Master Builders" and some others.It is a nice book to have, but I wouldn't say it's a must to have in your architecture library.
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Die Crown Hall bedeutete eine einmalige Chance in der Karriere Ludwig Mies van der Rohes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Pao-Chi Chang, Hedrich Blessing Archive, Chicago Historical Society, New York, Peter Behrens, Alumni Memorial Hall, Drive-in Restaurant, Gleichheit von Aussage, Martin Heidegger, The Museum of Modern Art, Chicago School, Concert Hall, Die Halle, East Ohio Street, George Steiner, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Karl Friedrich Schinkel New!
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- Martin Heidegger by George Steiner on page 13, and page 14
- Summa Theologiae: Volume 2, Existence and Nature of God: 1a. 2-11 (Summa Theologiae (Cambridge University Press)) by Thomas Aquinas on page 12, and page 13
- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on page 12, and page 13
- The End of Philosophy by Martin Heidegger on page 16, and page 18
- Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Fifth Edition, Enlarged (Studies in Continental Thought) by Martin Heidegger on page 13, and page 14
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