Author(s): Noah Resnick
The following short essay is a rumination on the poeticbalance between Alfred Caldwell’s flowing landscapeand Mies Van der Rohe’s crisp architectonics displayedin their brilliant Lafayette Park project in Detroit. Itfocuses on one small, enigmatic drawing found onthe Planting Plan within the original ConstructionDocuments set from 1958.
Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne
ISBN
978-1-944214-08-1
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