Elina Avila Blog 8

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library was completed in 1972 and is known to have been Rohe’s last building. As one can see, the building is also designed in a modernistic way within the type of glass, steel, and brick building. However, it looks vastly different due to how much taller it is than the College of Architecture in Chicago. This is not one of the nicer buildings of his that I enjoyed seeing. However, it is interesting to me because it is similar to the building at IIT in Chicago, which I did like. This one has more buildings, but still utilizes the same approach. It has large windows, but due to the many windows it has, the window size seems less impressive. Nonetheless, a seemingly nice building.

References:

https://farnsworthhouse.org/ 

https://www.dwell.com/article/ludwig-mies-van-der-rohe-architect-19dd30ba

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