3. As a teen, Tim worked with the famous urban activist Richard Nickel, who led efforts to save Chicago landmarks.
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4. When Tim was around 11 or 12, he heard a great Louis Sullivan building was going to be torn down & replaced by a van der Rohe building.
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5. So Tim went to the offices of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Amazingly, he was let into see the modernist architect.
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6. Van der Rohe was an old German guy, bull dog face, smoking a cigar.
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7. Tim gave an impassioned speech about how important Louis Sullivan was and how van der Rohe, an architect himself should treasure history
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8. Van der Rohe heard out Tim's speech. Spent a moment quietly reflecting, sucking on his cigar.
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9. Then van der Rohe said, "Young man, I hope one day you'll love my building as much as the one we're going to destroy."
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10. One post-script: Tim now lives in an apartment building designed by Mies van der Rohe. It's a pretty nice building, actually.
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11. Another post-script: Tim and Richard Nickel worked hard to salvage architectural fixtures from buildings they couldn't save.
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12. Nickel died in one of those reclamation efforts, when part of building landed on him (my memory is fuzzy on details, so could be wrong)
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13. When you go to the Art Institute of Chicago, the amazing holdings on architecture history are in large part stuff Tim saved.
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