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 ...

Mies’s own grandson, Dirk Lohan, a distinguished Chicago architect who worked for Mies in the early 1960s, told me, “In all my years of working for Mies and understanding all his projects, I’ve never ...

Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the subject of today’s Google Doodle icon, was famous for his dictum “Less is more” and his minimalism design style.. The architect, who was often known ...

It’s not every day you stumble upon the plans for a long-lost, never-built structure by a legendary architect like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but that’s just about what happened at Indiana ...

The glass-and-steel elevated structure—called the Mies van der Rohe Building—opened in February. A public open house is scheduled 4 to 5 p.m. on April 8. The building is a new structure with a ...

Mies van der Rohe, famed architect, designed this home for a fraternity. Plans from 1950s were shelved, unearthed decades later; work almost complete on what will be part of Indiana University’s ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe realized his skyscraper vision in the 21-story Promontory Apartments. “It will have no outside ornamentation,” the Tribune noted when the project was announced in 1947.

Edith Farnsworth said she never quite felt at home in her “glass cage” designed by famed architect Mies Van Der Rohe. David Dunlap The final cost of the house, tallied in 1951, came to $79,000 ...

When Ludwig Mies van der Rohe left his native Germany for Chicago in 1938, the world of modern architecture was forever changed. In Chicago, the prolific architect crafted the master plan for the ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe receives an homage in today’s Google Doodle. The German-born modernist architect would have turned 126 today. The doodle -- a drawing of a rectangular glass and steel ...