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

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 ...

The renovated exterior of Kacek Hall, which was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Is seen at the Illinois ... doubles and triples) pinwheel around a social lounge and shared bathroom area ...

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 ...

Half a century after his death, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe remains one of the most influential architects of the modern era. He radically changed the way we think about skyscrapers, pioneering 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I never create an image when I want to build a house.“ Thus Mies van der Rohe stated during interview with the Bauwelt magazine in 1964. He did, however, produce a wealth of collages and montages.

BROKEN GLASS Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece By Alex Beam The case that animates “Broken Glass” isn’t a legal thriller with turncoat mobsters ...

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).