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 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 ...

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 ...

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 high priest of curtain-wall modernism, German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is one of those towering talents about whom no facts seem hidden. Since his death in 1969, at age 83 ...

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 ...

Among this cohort is also Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose vision of industrial modernism helped define the look of postwar urban America. His signature materials — high-tensile steel ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Mies van der Rohe (left) visits the Farnsworth House construction site with project supervisor Myron Goldsmith. The photograph was taken by Chicago architect ...