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Wichtige oder wird gerade zur ckgegeben. Sowohl die wissenschaftliche Arbeiten sind Marcel Francis- May- als auch die Eckstein-Papiere sind ver- cono, Walter Gropius and the Creation of the Bau- streut, ich besitze aber Mikrofilm-Kopien der haus in Weimar, Urbana, Illinois 1971; Karl- Materialien, die ich aus diesen Sammlungen be- Heinz H ter, Das Bauhaus in Weimar, Berlin nutzt habe. Die meisten der Mies van der Rohe- 1976, sowie Frank Whitford, Bauhaus, New Papiere, die ich im Busch-Reisinger Museum ein- York 1984. gesehen habe, befinden sich jetzt im Bauhaus- Zu einigen Hauptrepr sentanten der zwanziger Archiv in Berlin. 1968 wurde ein bedeutendes und drei iger Jahre sind inzwischen neue Infor- Mies van der Rohe-Archiv im Museum of Mo- mationen verf gbar. dern Art eingerichtet. Es umfa t haupts chlich Zu Behrens: Tillman Buddensieg, Industriekultur. 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