Lafayette Park
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
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Date
1963Description
General view, depicting low-rise housing with high-rise behind; The Lafayette Park development is a large park and complex of apartments and housing cooperatives just east of downtown Detroit, Michigan. The area is part of the Mies van der Rohe Residential District listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The 78-acre urban renewal project was originally called the Gratiot Park Development. Planned by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Alfred Caldwell it includes a landscaped, 19-acre park with no through traffic, in which these and other low-rise apartment buildings are sited. The apartment buildings of Lafayette Park are classic examples of Mies' International Style, with their simplicity, clean proportions, and cladding of tinted glass and aluminum. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 1/25/2008)
Type of Work
housing project; park (recreation area); apartment houseSubject
architectural exteriors, contemporary (1960 to present), City planning, Housing, urban renewal, Modernist, International Style (modern European architecture style)
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