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

project architect with Thomas Phifer and Partners; Ron Johnson, a structural engineer at SOM; and Edward Windhorst, Mies van der Rohe’s biographer.

So why was Mies van der Rohe, world-famous architect ... Stunningly, Mies said yes. The bowling alley project never got far, but Cantor had other ideas. Suburban living and the automobile were the ...

Wanting to raise money to maintain two modernist landmarks—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House ... and designers donated works of art to a project and book called Modern Views ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a giant of 20th century architecture ... They launched a six-month rehab project, designed by New York-based James Mohn, before moving in. Renovations included re ...

Phifer was already working on an IU campus building project, the Ferguson International Center, when his firm was approached about reviving the Mies design. (Van der Rohe’s grandson Dirk Lohan ...

already housed two masterpieces from the early European career of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: the twin project consisting of Haus Esters and Haus Lange, which date from 1927-1930. Those two projects ...

Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House ... but carried his bitterness about the project to his grave. After commissioning several technical surveys, the trust has posted a feasibility study by ...

Mies van der Rohe’s gas station on Nun’s Island outside ... they did not recreate everything that Mies had intended for the project. The gas station conversion was completed in the spirit ...

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).