stephs essay prt 3

The Seagram Building is a skyscraper in New York City, located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan. It was designed by the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in collaboration with the American, Philip Johnson and was completed in 1958. It is 156.9 meters tall with 38 stories. It stands as one of the finest examples of the functionalist aesthetic and a masterpiece of corporate modernism. It was designed as the headquarters for the Canadian distillers Joseph E. Seagram's & Sons.

Then in 1928 Johnson met the Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was at the time designing the German Pavilion for the Barcelona exhibition of 1929. The meeting was a revelation for Johnson and formed the basis for a lifelong relationship between them as well as competition.
Johnson returned from Germany as a proselytizer for the new architecture. He Toured Europe with more understanding along with his friends, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Henry-Russell Hitchcock and examined firsthand recent trends in architecture. The three put together their discoveries at the landmark show "The International International_Style Architecture”. The show was profoundly influential and was seen as the introduction of modern architecture to the American public. It introduced such pivotal architects as Le Corbusier, Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe.

I feel that as I learned about him I found out different things about him. For instance, he was gay and that his buildings are interesting to me cause they are beautiful and they have very unique shapes.