A new exhibition at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Illinois explores a little-studied corner of Mies van der Rohe’s career: his brief fascination with pre-fabrication.

A new documentary tracks the work and preparation done to modernize Washington, D.C.’s central library.

In 2014, after accepting the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron drove from Chicago to Plano, Illinois, to visit Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, completed in 1951.

“It is much better to be good than to be original,” Ludwig Mies van der Rohe famously advised his protégé Philip Johnson.