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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]
The Mies van der Rohe Foundation is a non-profit public entity created with the aim of reconstructing the German Pavilion that the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and designer Lilly Reich created for the Barcelona International Exposition (1929). [1] The temporary pavilion was demolished in 1930 after the exposition finished.
The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is a prize given biennially by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, [1] 'to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe'.
When he was given the opportunity to design Crown Hall in 1950, Mies deviated from the norm and built a totally different structure which no one had seen before. Widely regarded as one of Mies van der Rohe's masterpieces, Crown Hall, completed in 1956, is one of the most architecturally significant buildings of the 20th century Modernist movement.
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.
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin: Mies van der Rohe. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz / Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2011. ISBN 9783775731454; Bénédicte Savoy & Philippa Sissis (Hrsg.): Die Berliner Museumsinsel: Impressionen internationaler Besucher (1830–1990). Eine Anthologie. Böhlau, Wien/Köln/Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20991-9.
Mies van der Rohe Society raised more than $1 million to restore the chapel by the end of the summer in 2013. [8] [2] Donna Robertson, Dean of Architecture at the time, assisted in the restoration project, which began in 2008. Restoration was set for "roof replacement, repairs and replacement of exterior glass and steel, reconstruction of ...
The Brno chair (model number MR50) is a modernist cantilever chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in 1929-1930 for the bedroom of the Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic. The design was based on similar chairs created by Mies van der Rohe working with Lilly Reich , such as the MR20 chair with wicker seat from 1927; all ...