Mies van der Rohe, Chicago apartment towers, 1951

Background– The other Saturday I was in NYC attending a day-long symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Historic Preservation program’s founding in the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia. A good share of the program assumed the climate-preserving virtue …

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