TenerifearchitectFernando Menisclaims to havedevelopedanewconstructiontechnique, demonstratedby this concert hall in Poland featuring facetedsurfacesof crushed brickandconcrete.
Mies's large drawings of his crystalline visions of faceted and curved glass skyscrapers of 1921 and 1922 were quickly followed by studies for brick and concrete country houses, prescient and perfect in their assured abstraction.