ABSTRACT
Some architects have accepted, or even celebrated, this emphasis by designing buildings in which movement and places are organised between strictly horizontal planes of platform and roof.
The German architect Mies van der Rohe celebrated the horizontal emphasis of human life in many of his projects. This is the plan of a ‘Fifty-byfifty’ (foot) house which he designed in 1951, but which has not been built. The house consists of a square flat roof over a paved area.
