On View Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 49

Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, and Rudolph Schindler, emigrated to the United States. These innovators formed the faculties of American architectural schools, most notably at Harvard University and the Illinois Institute of Technology. Modernism was held as truth by the generations of students they trained. Emerging in the 1960s and ’70s, these young designers felt they had arrived at a place beyond style. Modernism was the pure and true mode in which to design everything from typography to furniture to architecture. When architects, those removed by several generations from the birth of modernism, came to maturity as designers—Frank Gehry, Charles Moore, Ettore Sott- OnV i e w Ma g a z i n e . c om • O c t o b e r /D e c e m b e r 2015 49