The-Human-Experience-of-Mies-&-Modernism
Chicago Architecture Crash Course 12-Week Series
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37m
The International Style of Modernism, popularized by Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, was de rigeur for corporate and civic architecture in the decades after World War II. Yet many then and now found the style cold, sterile, and institutional. Part nine of our Chicago Architecture Crash Course will look at the Humanist influences on Mies's famously simple style, illuminating how it reflected a certain strain of utopianism.
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