"This publication follows the symposium ... held on September 26, 1992 in the Council Chamber of Toronto City Hall to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Toronto-Dominion Centre"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
New Mies / Detlef Mertins -- Punching through the clouds : notes on the place of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in the North American Oeuvre of Mies / Phyllis Lambert -- Mies's skyscraper "project" : towards the redemption of technical structure / Detlef Mertins -- A world in itself : architecture and technology / Fritz Neumeyer -- Mies and movement : military logistics and molecular regimes / Sanford Kwinter -- The receding horizon of Mies : work of the Cranbrook Architecture Studio / Dan Hoffman -- Renouncing autistic words / Ben Nicholson -- The grid, the /cloud/, and the detail / Rosalind Krauss -- Mies van der Rohe and minimalism / Ignasi de Solá-Morales Rubió -- Looking for "the public" in Mies van der Rohe's concept for the Toronto-Dominion Centre / George Baird -- Almost nothing : Heidegger and Mies / Rebecca Comay -- Mies not / Beatriz Colomina. What's so funny : modern jokes and modern architecture / Brian Boigon -- Odysseus and the oarsmen, or Mies's abstraction once again / K. Michael Hays.
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