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Article: Hilberseimer emerges from shadow of Mies
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 4, 1988
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During all the years that architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
reigned in Chicago, there was another Ludwig in town.
The man was Ludwig Hilberseimer, architect-planner and stubborn
visionary of remade cities.
Both Ludwigs came out of Germany's Bauhaus and worked together
at Illinois Institute of Technology, but Mies got the headlines. The
other Ludwig had such a modest public image that a new book about him
is titled In the Shadow of Mies (published by the Art Institute of
Chicago and Rizzoli International, $19.95).
Mies van der Rohe had exquisite skills. He never lacked for
fame - or blame, deserved or not, for siring the glass-box
skyscrapers that overran the downtowns of the world. ...