Arguably Mies’ American masterpiece. Designed with Philip Johnson, this Park Avenue tower is modernism fully manifest: a bronze-toned curtain wall, perfectly proportioned structure, and a public plaza ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, simply Mies to the entire world of design, is one of architecture's most towering figures. Whether it is his gnomic statements – "less is more" and "God is in the ...

Mies van der Rohe's work was dismissed by the Nazis in Germany (his work was rejected as not 'German' in character), so he moved to the US in 1937, where he created what many believe to be his ...

Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe peers between two large models of ultra-modern apartment buildings he designed for Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, 1956. Frank Scherschel—The LIFE Picture ...

“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.

This success paved Mies van der Rohe's path designing the Barcelona Pavilion, but on an expedited time frame. With only one year, he completed one of the most influential pieces of modern ...

Researchers discovered a treasure trove of Mies van der Rohe's projects in Indianapolis that never got off the ground. ... the titan of modern design and architecture who was born in Germany in 1886 ...

Mies Villa, Jostled by History, Is in a Race Against Time. Article on plight of Togendhat Villa, house built in 1930 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Brno, in what is now the Czech Republic, for ...

Indiana University ’s (IU) Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design is about to gain a brand new building designed by Mies van der Rohe.Originally planned for IU’s Bloomington campus in ...