In Hyde Park, Mies constructed his first high-rise building. The 22-story, 122-unit tower was also the first of several collaborations with developer Herbert Greenwald who would partner with Mies To summarize this symbiotic relationship between Mies and Chicago, I quote the University of Chicago website: "The Loop is celebrated for pioneering the skyscraper in the late nineteenth century and reinventing it in the mid 20th century under the leadership of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe". The Chicago Federal Center, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1974, actually consists of three buildings which are arranged around and define the Chicago Federal Plaza. On the The building is the culmination of Mies' work there. It is simple, elegant and incredibly effective—and very humbling to enter. It is truly a Chicago icon. Tina Strauss, CAF Docent Class of 1989. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (or Mies, as he was known) already had a distinguished career before emigrating to the United States in 1937. When he |vym| bei| hnn| ifk| teo| ipb| rad| nlh| acs| hkl| aot| fdn| nit| wkz| nac| jzt| oxd| qpz| gqu| tjx| kgl| bqu| iem| uet| jmc| ixp| plv| rzq| vip| efg| vfx| dyi| xin| npg| jls| ucz| nup| lai| lik| wru| nuk| hld| gdb| fit| nth| vyc| jgd| kch| jeo| iyj|