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The Mies van der Rohe Foundation has launched the second edition of the Lilly Reich Grant for equality in architecture. Marking the 135th anniversary of the birth of the German designer ...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who died in Chicago last week at the ... ornaments for a local architect—”full-size details of Louis XIV in the morning, Renaissance in the afternoon.” ...
Hans Noë wore many hats—architect, sculptor, Fanelli Cafe proprietor. He was also a Holocaust survivor, and Tony Smith, ...
Among this cohort is also Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose vision of industrial modernism helped define the look of postwar urban America. His signature materials — high-tensile steel ...
Among architect, interior designer and academic Mies van der Rohe‘s many talents was an innate ability to refine an object’s form without making it feel too cold and clinical. Regarding his ...
But the MLK Jr. building, originally designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened in 1972, serves as the system’s central library, a 426,000-square-foot Modernist jewel in the heart of downtown, ...
BROKEN GLASS Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece By Alex Beam The case that animates “Broken Glass” isn’t a legal thriller with turncoat mobsters ...
Rediscovering plans for a nearly unknown, never-realized Ludwig Mies van der Rohe building seems improbable. “It’s like finding a Rembrandt in a desk drawer,” says one of the architect’s ...