Two projects, the apartment building project in Dessau and the Törten row housing also in Dessau, fall in that category, but developing worker housing was not the first priority of Gropius nor Mies.

Pei's designs echoed the work of Mies van der Rohe in the beginning of his career as also shown in his own weekend-house in Katonah in 1952.

Completing the Seagram Building with Mies also decisively marked a shift in Johnson's career.

His work also reflects the influences of other designers such as Mies Van der Rohe and, in some instances, Frank Lloyd Wright and Luis Barragán ( without the colour ).

He is also known for coining the maxim " Less is a bore " a postmodern antidote to Mies van der Rohe's famous modernist dictum " Less is more ".

Before leaving the Academy, Jacobsen also travelled to Germany, where he became acquainted with the rationalist architecture of Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.

Messerschmitt, and its executive Willy Messerschmitt also occupied the famed Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in the 1920's ; the Messerschmidt aircraft factory office and the Gestapo occupied the property during the war.

Mies also designed all of the furniture ( two types of armchair designed for the building, the Tugendhat chair and the Brno chair, are still in production ).

The interiors of these spaces were also designed by Mies and included his signature broad planes of rich, unadorned wood panelling, freestanding cabinets as partitions, wood slab desks, and some of his furniture pieces, such as the Barcelona chair, Barcelona ottoman, and Brno chair.

However, Mies had severe time constraints — he had to design the Barcelona Pavilion in less than a year — and was also dealing with uncertain economic conditions.

The sculpture also ties into the highly reflective materials Mies used — he chose the place where these optical effects would have the strongest impact ; the building offers multiple views of Alba.

Other critics also note the presence of Mies van der Rohe's spirit in the architecture.

Lots of designer furniture was also used, notably Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's 258-type couch, Harry Bertoia's Diamond-type armchair, Yrjö Kukkapuro's Karusseli-type armchair,

Beyond the functionality of a building, Mies van der Rohe also highlighted the building's most distinguishing aesthetic features.

Reflecting upon the weekend house also led Mies to a form of expression that approached the building style of the Far East.

Conversely, he also much admired the work of Mies van der Rohe with their precise and refined detailing of industrial materials.

They also connected to a new cafeteria in a renovated 1953 Commons building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Such publicity also made it into the popular press: in the post-war era Time magazine occasionally featured architects on its front cover-for instance, in addition to Le Corbusier, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

In 1982 he also entered a competition for an addition to the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, built to a design by Mies van der Rohe.

330 North Wabash ( formerly IBM Plaza also known as IBM Building and to be renamed AMA Plaza ) is a skyscraper in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, at 330 N. Wabash Avenue, designed by famed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( who died in 1969 before construction began ).

Mies has a second nature reserve, Les Crénées, on the lakeshore, which is also private property, but not accessible to the public.

Like many other avant-garde architects of the day, Mies based his own architectural theories and principles on his own personal re-combination of ideas developed by many other thinkers and designers who had pondered the flaws of the traditional design styles.

The design theories of Adolf Loos found resonance with Mies, particularly the ideas of eradication of the superficial and unnecessary, replacing elaborate applied ornament with the straightforward display of materials and forms.

More than perhaps any other practising pioneer of modernism, Mies mined the writings of philosophers and thinkers for ideas that were relevant to his architectural mission.

Due to their faithful following of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe ’ s ideas, Frank Lloyd Wright nicknamed them " The Three Blind Mies ".

The De Stijl influence on architecture remained considerable long after 1931 ; Mies van der Rohe was among the most important proponents of its ideas.

Peter Behrens was a pioneer in everything he did in the first half of the 20th century and his ideas were spread around the world by his students, especially by Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.

The archive consists of about nineteen thousand drawings and prints, one thousand of which are by the designer and architect Lilly Reich ( 1885 – 1947 ), Mies van der Rohe's close collaborator from 1927 to 1937 ; of written documents ( primarily, the business correspondence ) covering nearly the entire career of the architect ; of photographs of buildings, models, and furniture ; and of audiotapes, books, and periodicals.

Mies never communicated with Edith, nor spoke about their rumored relationship again.

While interviewing Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Van Der Rohe asked about Frank Lloyd Wright whom Nelson was embarrassed to say, he did not know much about.

When asked about the possible inspiration of Mies van der Rohe's buildings in America, GMW project architect Robert Smith explained instead that the form of the building came from the surrounding context.

In particular, he wrote books about Le Corbusier, Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and artistic theory.

In Mies about 393 or ( 26. 2 %) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 439 or ( 29. 3 %) have completed additional higher education ( either university or a Fachhochschule ).

Mies halted the school's manufacture of goods so that the school could focus on teaching.

Mies, like many of his post-World War I contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras.

Mies pursued an ambitious lifelong mission to create a new architectural language that could be used to represent the new era of technology and production.

Mies played a significant role as an educator, believing his architectural language could be learned, then applied to design any type of modern building.

Mies placed great importance on education of architects who could carry on his design principles.

Mies had hoped his architecture would serve as a universal model that could be easily imitated, but the aesthetic power of his best buildings proved impossible to match, instead resulting mostly in drab and uninspired structures rejected by the general public.

As the style hit its stride in the highly-developed postwar work of Mies van der Rohe, the tenets of 1950s modernism became so strict that even accomplished architects like Edward Durrell Stone and Eero Saarinen could be ridiculed and effectively ostracized for departing from the aesthetic rules.

During 1951 – 1952, Mies ' designed the steel, glass, and brick McCormick House, located in Elmhurst, Illinois ( 15 miles west of the Chicago Loop ), for real-estate developer Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. A one story adaptation of the exterior curtain wall of his famous 860 – 880 Lake Shore Drive towers, it served as a prototype for an unbuilt series of speculative houses to be constructed in Melrose Park, Illinois.

Mies was given carte blanche in the large commission, and the university grew fast enough during and after World War II to allow much of the new plan to be realized.

A building's structural elements should be visible, Mies thought.

Mies would have preferred the steel frame to be visible to all ; however, American building codes required that all structural steel be covered in a fireproof material, usually concrete, because improperly protected steel columns or beams may soften and fail in confined fires.

Originally intended to be the site of an office tower designed by Mies van der Rohe in the manner of the Seagram Building NYC, that scheme was aborted following one of the great architectural and planning show-downs of the 1970s.

In 2001, the Chicago Park District, which owns the structure, faced substantial criticism when it announced plans to alter the stadium by architect Dirk Lohan, the grandson of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, of the Chicago-based architecture firm of Lohan Associates in a joint venture with architect Benjamin T. Wood of the Boston-based architecture firm Wood & Zapata ; it was announced that the stadium's interior would be demolished and reconstructed while the exterior would be preserved.

Mies wanted this building to become " an ideal zone of tranquillity " for the weary visitor, who should be invited into the pavilion on the way to the next attraction.

Mies developed the design in time for it to be included in an exhibit on his work at MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1947.

Mies found the large open exhibit halls of the turn of the century to be very much in character with his sense of the industrial era.

The notion of a single room that can be freely used or zoned in any way, with flexibility to accommodate changing uses, free of interior supports, enclosed in glass and supported by a minimum of structural framing located at the exterior, is the architectural ideal that defines Mies ' American career.

Mies accepted the problems of industrial society as facts to be dealt with, and offered his idealized vision of how technology can be made beautiful and can support the individual.

Eichler homes are from a branch of Modernist architecture that has come to be known as " California Modern ," and typically feature glass walls, post-and-beam construction, and open floorplans in a style indebted to Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe.

In the commune of Mies, but not in the village centre, can be found a number of businesses mostly along the Route Suisse, which follows the lake, including restaurants, lake facilities, boat builders, and garages.

Lake Point Tower is much taller than van der Rohe ’ s original project, more regular in form, and its exterior glass curtain wall is tinted ; however, the building owes much of its innovative design to the van der Rohe original-and because of the design's origins, many in Chicago still consider Lake Point Tower to be a Mies van der Rohe building, albeit executed by two of his protégés.

In architecture, the International Style of uniformly rectangular, unornamented chrome, concrete, and glass buildings, as pioneered by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus, and Le Corbusier, are thought to be an expression of the austerity associated with high modernism.