Editing Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (section)

===860–880 Lake Shore Drive===
{{Main|860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments}}
[[File:860-880 Lake Shore Drive.jpg|thumb|[[860–880 Lake Shore Drive]], Chicago, Illinois (1949–1951)]]
The [[860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments]] were built between 1948 and 1951 and came to define postwar US Modernism. These towers, with façades of steel and glass, were radical departures from the typical residential brick apartment buildings.<ref>{{cite book | author1=Matthew Lasner |title=High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2012 |page=201 |isbn= 9780300269345 }}</ref>

Mies designed a series of four middle-income high-rise apartment buildings for developer Herbert Greenwald. The towers were simple rectangular boxes with a non-hierarchical wall enclosure, raised on stilts above a glass-enclosed lobby. The lobby is set back from the perimeter columns, which were exposed around the perimeter of the building above, creating a modern [[colonnade]]. This configuration created a feeling of light, openness, and freedom of movement at the ground level that became the prototype for countless new [[high rise]]s designed both by Mies's office and his followers.

Updated Mies apartment that was featured on the "Living with Mies Tour":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du_UuTKvPkw&t=35s]