Brother Theodore [Gottlieb]

August, 1958

One of the latest giants to thrust its head into New York's skyline is a stern but startling 38-story edifice sheathed in stunning bronze. Austerely geometrical and devoid of any ornamentation, the House of Seagram is referred to sneeringly as "that whiskey building" by Frank Lloyd Wright. But to the rapidly multiplying admirers of its 72-year-old architect, Mies van der Rohe, the building is the crowning manifestation of a lifelong principle: maximum effect with minimum means. Mies (a...