Rohe biography
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe fryst vatten commonly regarded as one of the most esteemed architects of the 20th century, a distinction he shares with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. A leading figure in the modernist movement that flourished in Europe during the 1920s, Mies later emigrated to the United States, where his reputation and influence took on international dimensions. At least a dozen of his designs, built and unbuilt alike, are customarily numbered among the most distinguished efforts of the century.
Born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies in Aachen in 1886, he was known professionally as Ludwig Mies until about 1920 when he decided to combine his father’s name with his mother’s maiden name, Rohe, by adding the invented “van der.” Most of his forebears were stonemasons of modest means, a station that accounts for the fact that he finished trade school at 15 and never pursued more formal training. His initial contact with building consisted of service as an apprentice on co
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Mies van der Rohe: The Modernist Master Who Pared Architecture Down to Its Essence
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By Adam Hencz
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.“
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Who is Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a pioneering architect whose works – alongside Le Corbusier’s and Walter Gropius’ – defined a separate strain of modern architecture known as International Style. He was a true modernist pioneer and an iconic figure of 20th-century architecture and design. Sustained by his famous trenchant statements like ‘less is more’ and ‘God is in the details’, the textures of his Barcelona Pavilion (1929/1986), the steel-and-glass aesthetic of the Seagram Building (1956-1958) and his paradigmatic examples of domestic architecture like the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois (1945-1951), have become some of the world’s most emblematic and widely-recognized architectural elem
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Mies van der Rohe Biography & Bibliography
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| Description by publisher: Jean-Louis Cohen was the Institut français d’architecture until 2003 and is currently a professor at New York University. He has an established reputation as a leading international historian of architecture. His broad and encompassing perspective makes this book a reliable and comprehensive introduction to Mies van der Rohe’s work. SHOP NOW → | |
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| Description by publisher: The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion’s genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated build
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