Mies' favorite Mieses

From a TIME magazine interview:
(published around 1966)

Mies singled out from a lifetime's work his half-dozen favorite buildings. In order, they are:

> Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall, a single glass-walled room, measuring 120 ft. by 220 ft. and spanned by four huge trusses. The structure simply encloses an envelope of space; the functions within can be changed by shifting movable partitions.

> The Chicago Federal Center, still under construction, and Mies's largest complex of high-and low-rise buildings.

> Manhattan's Seagram Building, the skyscraper city's most tranquil and most costly tower.

> Chicago's 860 Lake Shore Drive apartments, his dramatic demonstration of open planning for tall apartment living behind all-glass facades.

>The project for a Chicago Convention Hall where 50,000 people could gather in unobstructed space beneath a gigantic trussed roof 720 ft. square.

> The German Pavilion (since destroyed) in Barcelona's 1929 International Exposition, a jewel-case structure employing the open planning first developed by Frank Lloyd Wright that combined the richness of bronze, chrome, steel and glass with free-standing walls.

Read the interview.