Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York City

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, 1958, 375 Park Avenue, New York City

Note: In the video we call Le Corbusier a French architect, but he was born in Swizerland and became a French citizen in 1930.

Additional resources

Mark Lamster, “A Personal Stamp on the Skyline” in The New York Times, April 3, 2013

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Cite this page as: Dr. Matthew A. Postal and Dr. Steven Zucker, "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York City," in Smarthistory, November 25, 2015, accessed February 26, 2021, https://smarthistory.org/ludwig-mies-van-der-rohe-seagram-building-new-york-city/.