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  • Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Named Among Top Artistic Breakthroughs in Chicago History

    Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Named Among Top Artistic Breakthroughs in Chicago History

    Chicago Magazine selected Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and László Moholy-Nagy as two of the most important artistic breakthroughs in Chicago history in the September article "Chicago's Top 40 Artistic Breakthroughs," recognizing Mies' design of campus master plan Illinois Institute of Technology and especially S. R. Crown Hall as the beginning of "a second golden age for Chicago architecture," and Moholy-Nagy's founding of the New Bauhaus, which became the IIT Institute of Design.

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