Professor Dietrich Neumann brought students in his seminar on Modern Architecture to NYC to visit the buildings they studied all semester. Here, the class stands in front of the Seagram Building. The Seagram Building is a skyscraper at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd and 53rd Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe along with Philip Johnson, Ely Jacques Kahn, and Robert Allan Jacobs, the high-rise tower is 515 feet tall with 38 stories. 

Students in the course learned about the "classic" period of European and American modern architecture from the turn of the century to the 1950s. The course familiarized students with both the established canon of masterpieces by among many others, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and LeCorbusier, and yet counterbalanced this approach with information about new building materials, changing conditions of architectural production, and the "mechanisms of fame."