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Penn Station, 1963: Walker Evans’ Portraits of a Lost Treasure

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Spiritual simplicity was Mies' aim in designing the Illinois Tech Chapel. Maintaining the basic campus pattern, he insisted on flat-roofed rectangle but provided brick walls to give the chapel a sense of privacy and solitude. Steel mullions of the facade echo shape of the cross above the altar arts & entertainment

Mies van der Rohe and the Poetry of Purpose

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