Rationalizations for simplification are still current,
however, though subtler than the early arguments. They are
expansions of Mies van der Rohe's magnificent paradox,
"less is more." Paul Rudolph has clearly stated the implications
of Mies' point of view: "All problems can never be
solved. . . . Indeed it is a characteristic of the twentieth
century that architects are highly selective in determining
which problems they want to solve. Mies, for instance,
makes wonderful buildings only because he ignores many
aspects of a building. If he solved more problems, his buildings would be far less potent