ARCHITECTURE FOR COMFORT—MIES VAN DER ROHE.

ARCHITECTURE FOR COMFORT—MIES VAN DER ROHE. An obituary in the Wall Street Journal (March 10) for Bruce Graham, who designed the Hancok Building and the Sears Tower in Chicago, included a story about Mies van der Rohe, an architect I greatly admire. Graham said that he had once asked Mies why he didn’t move into 860 Lake Shore Drive, a landmark Chicago apartment skyscraper that Mies designed. (Here and here are some photos of the building.) Mies said: “There’s no place to put the furniture. I was born in a little village in Germany. I can dream and imagine this new world, but I can’t live in it.”