As we continue our Bauhaus 100 series, celebrating 100 years of the hugely influential school, we profile the modernism pioneer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, simply Mies to ...

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).

Mies began to develop this style through the 1920s, combining the functionalist industrial concerns of his modernist contemporaries and an aesthetic drive toward minimal intersecting planes ...

Phyllis Lambert, who persuaded her father to make his Seagram Building a paragon of modern architecture, has written a new book, “Building Seagram.” “Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies,” a new ...

Much of the production of modern architecture on the American ... The German Pavilion was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1929 for the German representation at the International Exhibition ...

So why was Mies van der Rohe, world-famous architect ... in the old papers and archives of the Art Institute of Chicago and New York’s Museum of Modern Art Mies Archive for clues. During that search, ...

Among this cohort is also Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose vision of industrial modernism helped define the look of postwar urban America. His signature materials — high-tensile steel ...

How did modern architecture develop to its present ... every direction the field has taken over the last century. Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time (Yale University Press: $75)(Yale ...

Thus Mies van der Rohe stated during interview with the Bauwelt magazine in 1964. He did, however, produce a wealth of collages and montages. These spatial compositions are some of the most ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) was a pioneering architect of the 20th Century, ... Mies served as the director of the Bauhaus, a seminal school in modern architecture, design, and art, ...