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 world. More and more architects began to revolt against the rigid functionalism that prevailed, and in the US, there were even voices advocating a "Miesless architecture".
