Today marks 130 years since the birth of German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. In honor of this tremendously influential figure, we're shining some light into the lesser known facts about ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) was a pioneering architect of the 20th Century, known for his role in developing the modernist architectural movement. His philosophy of "less is more ...

A group of women, including Edith Farnsworth, picnic in coastal Maine in the summer of 1926. Pictured from left are Mary “Polly” Porter, Alicia Rosenbaum, Dorothy Blake, Farnsworth, Dodo Blake and ...

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 ...

The snoop from suburbia got one thing right: The older man was, indeed, a celebrated designer of buildings: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose fame had preceded his arrival two years earlier in the ...

Perhaps the most influential architect that has worked in Chicago to date, Mies van der Rohe is the subject a new study by two Chicago authors. Rising along the Chicago River at 330 N. Wabash ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...