German American architect, 1886 to 1969, last director of the Bauhaus, designer of the Barcelona Pavilion, the Farnsworth House and the Seagram Building, and author of the modernist credo less is more. His steel and glass discipline, refined at the Illinois Institute of Technology after his emigration in 1938, became the language of the postwar corporate tower worldwide.
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Defining ContributionThe steel and glass language of the International Style; less is more 1 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1960.
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Closest professional partnership, 1925 to his 1937 emigration; co-credited today on the Barcelona Pavilion, its furniture, and Villa Tugendhat's interiors.
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The style is named for and defined by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe own work and dictum.
Mies is a central figure of modernist architecture
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Awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1959.
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Third and last director, 1930 to 1933.
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Third and final director of the Bauhaus, from 1930 until the school closed under Nazi pressure in 1933.
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Mies was among the architects featured in the 1932 Museum of Modern Art exhibition
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Johnson met Mies in 1928, promoted his work at MoMA, and later co-designed the Seagram Building with him.
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Ando traveled to study buildings by masters including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
With Philip Johnson, who designed the Four Seasons interiors.
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American Institute of ArchitectsAssociated With: American Institute of ArchitectsView the Source Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Wikipedia)
In Style: International Style, pioneer of modern/International Style architecture, Bauhaus directorView the Source Wikipedia: Philip Johnson
Tadao Ando (Wikipedia)
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