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This chapter investigates three spatial properties in the domestic architecture of Mies van der Rohe. All three are associated with Mies’s rejection of the type of cellular, hierarchically-structured planning found in traditional and pre-Modern housing. In its stead, Mies proposed a ‘free’ or ‘open’ plan, with only a minimum of physical divisions, as a sign of his abandonment of historic social structures.
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Ostwald, M.J., Dawes, M.J. (2018). Mies van der Rohe: Characteristics of the Free Plan. In: The Mathematics of the Modernist Villa. Mathematics and the Built Environment, vol 3. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71647-3_5
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