Dwell Magazine visits Detroit’s Lafayette Park; Mies van der Rohe townhouse makes cover

Dwell Magazine, a modern architecture and design magazine, came to Detroit’s Lafayette Park to check out Mies van der Rohe’s work.Excerpt:Residents Keira Alexandra and Toby Barlow are two of Lafayette Park’s
(and downtown Detroit’s) most fervent supporters. “San Francisco
doesn’t need us,” says Alexandra, a graphic designer, “but Detroit
does.” Barlow, who is the executive creative director for the Ford
account at JWT and author of the epic poem Sharp Teeth, wryly notes,
“Detroit is a blank canvas waiting for some more visionaries like Mies.
People describe it as being dangerous, but they don’t describe Malibu
as being dangerous, and it’s always on fire. That seems pretty
dangerous to me. And Arizona is always on the brink of running out of
water. That seems dangerous too.”Read the entire article here.