Fifty Years of Detail: Fifty Years of the Aesthetics of Construction

At first glance, the world still seemed to be in order in 1961, the year in which DETAIL was founded. The all-prevailing International Style continued its triumphal advance, and Mies van der Rohe, then 75 years old, was revered by architects throughout the world as a father figure. Nonetheless, ever greater cracks began to manifest themselves in this seemingly intact...