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Architecture and society Architecture Michigan Detroit Farnsworth House (Plano, Ill.) Farnsworth, Edith Lafayette Park (Detroit, Mich.) Buildings, structures, etc Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 1886-1969 Parks Michigan Detroit History 20th century Planned communities Michigan Detroit United States Urban landscape architecture Michigan Detroit History 20th centuryFilter By Authors
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Summary: "In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time--unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, whose discoveries put her in contention for the Nobel Prize, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.9773 BEASummary: Lafayette Park, an affordable middle-class residential area in downtown Detroit, is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the world. Today, it is one of Detroit's most racially integrated and economically stable neighborhoods, although it is surrounded by evidence of a city in financial distress. Through interviews with and essays by residents;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolis Books 2012