What would be the legacy of the work of Mies van de Rohe? Is the true interest to be found in his avant-garde projects from the 1920s, or in the later work from the US, which might be viewed, symptomatically, as the final acceptance of the commodification of the avant-garde in postwar corporate US? Or does the glass box in fact indicate a moment—to be sure tenuous and short—of resistance, the posterity of which however harbors a multiplicity of possible continuations? In what sense, if any, could we, in the present, pick up where his work left off and shoot the arrow into the future?