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Article: The Bauhaus: Built to Last
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- The Washington Post
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- January 21, 1995
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One of the last buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,
the great German architect who spent the last three productive
decades of his life in the United States, is the Martin Luther King
Memorial Library downtown. Nearby is an office building designed
about 20 years later by American architect Philip Johnson.
These two buildings came naturally to mind during a preview of
"The Bauhaus in America," a film to be shown twice next week at the
Hirshhorn Museum, because Johnson and Mies, as he is commonly called,
play major roles in the story the film tries to tell.
Mies was the last director of the Bauhaus, the famous Weimar
Republic-era school closed by the Nazis in 1933. Johnson was a ...