Rediscovering plans for a nearly unknown, never-realized Ludwig Mies van der Rohe building seems improbable. “It’s like finding a Rembrandt in a desk drawer,” says one of the architect’s ...

More than 50 years after its construction, the single-largest collection of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe‘s built work is now a national landmark. The National Park Service on Tuesday designated ...

The new book Almost Nothing sheds new light on Dr. Edith Farnsworth, the Chicago doctor who commissioned architect Mies van ...

The snoop from suburbia got one thing right: The older man was, indeed, a celebrated designer of buildings: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose fame had preceded his arrival two years earlier in the ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a giant of 20th century architecture whose hard-edged modern buildings dot the map of Chicago, lived in a building that was definitely not miesian. From 1940, three years ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has been dead for more than half a century. Yet on the campus of the Indiana University (IU), the German-born architect—whose works are among modernism’s most ...

The German Pavilion was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1929 for the German representation at the International Exhibition in Barcelona held on Montjuic that same year. The Pavilion was ...

Perhaps the most influential architect that has worked in Chicago to date, Mies van der Rohe is the subject a new study by two Chicago authors. Rising along the Chicago River at 330 N. Wabash ...

In August 2015, I started working on planning and design at Indiana University. Soon after I began, I was told that the famous modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe had designed a fraternity ...

One such artist, whose work so defined his time that it’s impossible to imagine certain decades and cityscapes without his influence, was the German master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 – 1969).