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After nearly 70 years, a forgotten, unbuilt design by the pioneering architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe comes to life on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus.
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 ...
The McCormick House, designed by Mies van der Rohe, has been disconnected from the Elmhurst Art Museum, restoring it as a free-standing house.
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 ...
In 1952, an IU fraternity hired Mies, a pioneer of modernist architecture, to design a residence building near the intersection of 3rd Street and Indiana Avenue south of Dunn’s Woods. The ...
New book revisits Mies van der Rohe’s groundbreaking Farnsworth House The 270-page coffee table book also brings to the fore Dr. Edith Farnsworth, the wealthy kidney specialist who commissioned ...
Knoll Reissues Mies van der Rohe's Famed Tugendhat Chair: Originally designed in 1929, the Tugendhat Chair combines the comfort of a lounge chair with an elegant, minimalistic form.
One of the great figures of 20th century architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is known for his ‘less is more’ approach. Now, his legacy is expanding — in furniture, unveiled at Salone del ...
With Dirk Denison Architects and Gilbane Building Company, the Illinois Institute of Technology has recently completed a $70 million housing project that has restored three Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ...
But the MLK Jr. building, originally designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened in 1972, serves as the system’s central library, a 426,000-square-foot Modernist jewel in the heart of downtown, ...
In “Broken Glass,” Alex Beam revisits the saga of the Farnsworth House — a tale of modernism, a broken heart and a transparent house with too few closets.