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Ludwig Mies renamed himself as part of his transformation from a tradesman's son to an architect working with Berlin's cultural elite, adding "van der" and his mother's maiden name "Rohe" [7] [8] and using the Dutch "van der", because the German form "von" was a nobiliary particle legally restricted to those of German nobility lineage. [9]
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's curtain wall is one of the most important aspects of his architectural design. Mies first began prototyping the curtain wall in his high-rise residential building designs along Chicago's lakeshore, achieving the look of a curtain wall at 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments. He finally perfected the curtain wall at 900 ...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto are other historical figures who contributed to the popularity of the cantilever chair. With the creation of his Wassily Chair in 1925, Marcel Breuer holds the distinction of first using bent and polished tubular steel as both a supporting framework and a decorative element for furniture.
Building by Mies van der Rohe in the Weissenhof Estate (1927) 1914 exhibition poster "Weißenhof chair", by Mies van der Rohe with canework upholstery by Lilly Reich [1] (ca. 1927) The Deutscher Werkbund ( German: [ˈdɔʏtʃɐ ˈvɛʁkbʊnt] ; lit.
The Weissenhof chair (also called MR 10 or MR 20) is a chair designed by the German architect and designer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in 1927. This first, springy cantilever chair was shown at the Weissenhofsiedlung Exhibition in 1927. It was made of 25 mm steel tube and with a wicker framework proposed by Lilly Reich. The MR20 version has forearms.
Mies van der Rohe and Hans and Wassili Luckhardt demonstrate a more functional and objective approach. Rudolf Steiner designs second Goetheanum after first was destroyed by fire in 1922. Work commences 1924 and is completed in 1928. Michel de Klerk dies. 1924. Germany adopts the Dawes plan. Architects more inclined to produce low-cost housing ...
Farnsworth House. In order to achieve an abstract goal, architects often plan outside the needs of their clients. The Chicago physician Edith Farnsworth, who commissioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1945 to design a weekend house in which she could retreat for relaxation, was not impressed by the purism of her Farnsworth House, which cost her a lot of money, and expressed herself to the ...
Hunstanton school, likely inspired by Mies van der Rohe's 1946 Alumni Memorial Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, United States, is notable as the first completed building in the world to carry the title of "new brutalist" by its architects. [22] [23] At the time, it was described as "the most truly modern building in ...