Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park Detroit

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Lafayette Park, an affordable middle-class residential area in downtown Detroit, is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the world. Today, it is one of Detroit’s most racially integrated and economically stable neighborhoods, although it is surrounded by evidence of a city in financial distress. Through interviews with and essays by residents; reproductions of archival material; and new photographs by Karin Jobst, Vasco Roma, and Corine Vermeulen, and previously unpublished photographs by documentary filmmaker Janine Debanné, Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies examines the way that Lafayette Park residents confront and interact with this unique modernist environment.

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Cite: Diego Hernández. "Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park Detroit" 26 Nov 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/292394/thanks-for-the-view-mr-mies-lafayette-park-detroit> ISSN 0719-8884

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