Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the founders of modern architecture and the last director of the Bauhaus during its period in Dessau and Berlin was born in Aachen as well.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

For instance: the pottery shop was discontinued when the school moved from Weimar to Dessau, even though it had been an important revenue source ; when Mies van der Rohe took over the school in 1930, he transformed it into a private school, and would not allow any supporters of Hannes Meyer to attend it.

Mies was appointed in 1930, and immediately interviewed each student, dismissing those that he deemed uncommitted.

When Hitler's chief engineer, Fritz Todt, began opening the new autobahn ( highways ) in 1935, many of the bridges and service stations were " bold examples of modernism " – among those submitting designs was Mies van der Rohe.

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.

" Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition " at the Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, in 1988 was the first comprehensive presentation of the Dutch architect's original works ever held in the U. S. The highlight of a celebratory “ Rietveld Year ” in Utrecht, the exhibition “ Rietveld ’ s Universe ” opened at the Centraal Museum and compared him and his work with famous contemporaries like Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( born as Maria Ludwig Michael Mies ; March 27, 1886, Aachen – August 17, 1969, Chicago ) was a German-American architect.

He is commonly referred to, and was addressed, as Mies, his surname.

A physically imposing, deliberative, and reticent man, Ludwig Mies renamed himself as part of his rapid transformation from a tradesman's son to an architect working with Berlin's cultural elite, adding " van der " and his mother's surname " Rohe ", using the Dutch " van der ", rather than the German form " von " which was legally restricted to those of genuine aristocratic lineage.

While continuing his traditional neoclassical design practice Mies began to develop visionary projects that, though mostly unbuilt, rocketed him to fame as an architect capable of giving form that was in harmony with the spirit of the emerging modern society.

Mies ' modernist thinking was influenced by many of the design and art movements of the day.

Like other architects who viewed the Wasmuth Portfolio and its associated exhibit, Mies was enthralled with the free-flowing spaces of inter-connected rooms which encompass their outdoor surroundings as demonstrated by the open floor plans of the American Prairie Style work of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Mies ' architecture was guided by principles at a high level of abstraction, and his own generalized descriptions of those principles intentionally leave much room for interpretation.

By 1933, however, the continued operation of the school was untenable ( it was raided by the Gestapo in April ), and in July of that year, Mies and the faculty voted to close the Bauhaus.

Mies settled in Chicago, Illinois where he was appointed head of the architecture school at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology ( later renamed Illinois Institute of Technology – IIT ).

Mies designed a series of four middle-income high-rise apartment buildings for developer Herb Greenwald: the 860 – 880 ( which was built between 1949 and 1951 ) and 900 – 910 Lake Shore Drive towers on Chicago's Lakefront.

Mies was chosen by the daughter of the client, Phyllis Bronfman Lambert, who has become a noted architectural figure and patron in her own right.

Mies ' design included a bronze curtain wall with external H-shaped mullions that were exaggerated in depth beyond what was structurally necessary.

But while Mies ' work had enormous influence and critical recognition, his approach failed to sustain a creative force as a style after his death and was eclipsed by the new wave of Post Modernism by the 1980s.

The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Archive, an administratively independent section of the Museum of Modern Art's department of architecture and design, was established in 1968 by the museum's trustees.

Still another influential affiliation of architects was the group Der Ring ( The Ring ) established by ten architects in Berlin in 1923-24, including: Otto Bartning, Peter Behrens, Hugo Häring, Erich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Bruno Taut and Max Taut.

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius ( May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969 ) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.

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.

Though Mies had emphasized his wish to complete the campus he had begun, commissions from the late 50s onward were given to Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill ( SOM ), prompting Mies to never return to the campus that had changed architecture the world over.

By the late 1960s, campus addition projects were given to SOM's Myron Goldsmith, who had worked with Mies during his education at IIT and thus was able to design several new buildings to harmonize well with the original campus.

As Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was given " virtually a free hand to create Toronto-Dominion Centre ," the complex, as a whole and in its details, is a classic example of his unique take on the International style, and represents the end the evolution of Mies ' North American period, which began with his 1957 Seagram Building in New York City.

After World War I, Mies began, while still designing traditional neoclassical homes, a parallel experimental effort.

In 1928 Johnson met with architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was at the time designing the German Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition.

The house's close proximity to the tree, some ten feet, led to a feeling of oneness with nature, which was integral to the design aesthetic that Mies was going for in designing the house.

The chair is almost completely hand-laboured, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's signature is stamped into each chair.

Mies appointed no new faculty other than his close confidant Lilly Reich.

In late 1932, Mies rented a derelict factory in Berlin to use as the new Bauhaus with his own money.

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.

The house is an embodiment of Mies ' mature vision of modern architecture for the new technological age: a single unencumbered space within a minimal " skin and bones " framework, a clearly understandable arrangement of architectural parts.

Mies designed modern furniture pieces using new industrial technologies that have become popular classics, such as the Barcelona chair and table, the Brno chair, and the Tugendhat chair.

The new design of dark steel and glass, by Gene Summers of C. F. Murphy and Associates ( and formerly of Mies van der Rohe's office ) contrasted markedly with the white look of the structure that had burned down.

The visual simplicity and conceptual clarity that were the hallmarks of Modernism as an artistic movement formed a powerful toolset for a new generation of graphic designers whose logos embodied Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ’ s dictum, " Less is more.

The first new buildings on Main Campus since the " completion " of the Mies Campus in the early 1970s were finished in 2003 — Rem Koolhaas's McCormick Tribune Campus Center and Helmut Jahn's State Street Village.

From 1943 to 1957, several new Mies buildings rose across campus, including the S. R.

SOM architect Walter Netsch designed a few buildings, including the new library that Mies had wished to create, all of them similar to Mies's style.

The beverage company Joseph Seagram and Sons had recently completed their new building on Park Avenue, designed by architects Mies Van der Rohe and Philip Johnson.

Mies wanted to use architecture as a tool to help reconcile the individual spirit with the new mass society in which he exists.

The development of new technical and aesthetic possibilities helped Mies van der Rohe to create a solid foundation for his architecture.

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

The municipality was part of the Nyon District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Mies became part of the new district of Nyon.