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The Architect · Caleb · Chicago

S.R. Crown Hall

Bronzeville · Modern Architecture · Free

This is Mies's clearest built sentence. One room, no interior columns, structure hung entirely outside. Pilgrimage.

Mies van der Rohe's 1956 architecture school — a single column-free glass room hung from four exterior steel plate girders.

— Caleb, The Architect
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