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Source Collection
Alan Karchmer collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
24_30.B
Description
Richland School, 5440 Rich Road, Memphis, Tennessee. Built in 1956. Architects: Roy Harrover and Associates. Photographer: Alan Karchmer. © Alan Karchmer.
With his dictum "Less is more," Mies van der Rohe introduced minimalism and the expression of structural purity into the corpus of American architecture. Miesian structures are rectangular with the utmost regularity and precision in plan, elevation, and detail. This efficiency often borders on sterility. The structures are modular in plan and elevation. Rigorous distinction between 'skin' and structure allows clean expansive glass curtain walls.
Date Created
2021
Date
undated
Recommended Citation
"Richland School, Memphis" (2021). Images. 119.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-karchmera2/119
Keywords
Architecture--Tennessee--Memphis.
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