COVER
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
1971


The Lange House, designed in 1921 by Mies van der Rohe as a spacious single-family home, was roofed over with an air-supported hall made of a white-coated material. In response to the "L"-shaped plan of the house the barrel-vaulted hall with its rounded ends had a heart-shaped plan and also roofed a part of the terraced garden. In the interior the light, evenly filtered through the shell from all sides, created a pallid hothouse atmosphere in which not only the garden plants started to change but also the proportions of the house itself. The facades were completely dematerialised and began to seem flat and paper-like.