The Mies Van Der Rohe Archive
Subtitle: Alumni Memorial Hall, Field House Building, Gymnasium, Natatorium, & Other Buildings & Projects (G)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780824059941
Subjects: Architectural structure & design; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists; United States; Catalogues raisonnâes; Individual Architects Of The 20th Century; Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig,; Architecture; Europe; General; Architecture / General; Architectural Drawing; 1886-1969; 20th century; Catalogs; Catalogues raisonnes
First sentence: (Project 4501) In the several years between the completion of the Minerals and Metals Research Building (4910) in 1943 and that of Alumni Memorial Hall (originally known as the Navy Building) in 1946, Mies had time to modify and refine the details used in the earlier work, particularly those involving the secondary structure of the curtain wall (wide flange, channel, glass and brick) and the primary steel-skeleton structure.