He collaborated with Mies on New York's finest modern skyscraper, the Seagram Building, before embarking on a series of big buildings of his own that followed the lead of the talented young architects he courted, encouraged and commissioned in a process of patronage and exploitation that kept him creatively alive, borrowing shamelessly from their work for the hedonistic dilettantism that became his personal style.
And of course, they have stirred quite the debate on the web: crass exploitation aimed to drum up controversy (and newsstand sales), or work of art that serves to raise awareness?