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Mies van der Rohe - Key Architecture We feature the major designs by this celebrated architect: Barcelona Pavilion, Spain Farnsworth House, USA 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, USA Tugendhat Villa, Czech Republic Mies van der Rohe Gas Station, Nun’s Island, Montréal, Quebec, Canada Les architectes FABG photograph : Steve Montpetit Mies van der Rohe Gas Station 21 Feb - Nun’s Island is part of the Hochelaga archipelago located immediately southwest of Montreal. It’s urbanization followed the opening of the Champlain bridge in 1962 under an ambitious master plan carried out by Metropolitan Structures, a real estate giant who had built numerous projects in Chicago with the collaboration of Mies van der Rohe. Mies van der Rohe - News Chicago architect Gene Summers, 83, dies. Gene was an assistant to Mies. He was later dean of IIT’s College of Architecture, from 1989 to 1993. Gene worked with Mies van der Rohe on such celebrated projects as the Seagram Building in New York and the Chicago Federal Center. Born in 1928 in San Antonio, Texas, he received his bachelor’s degree from Texas A & M University in 1949 and his master’s in 1951 from IIT, where he studied under Mies van der Rohe. From 1950 until 1966, he served as a project architect in the Mies van der Rohe office. Gene Summers was later partner in charge of design at C.F. Murphy Associates, where he was the chief architect of McCormick Place, completed in 1971. Mies van der Rohe - Buildings Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain 1929; reconstructed 1983-86 The Barcelona Pavilion is probably the most famous and respected Ludwig Mies van der Rohe building. Other key buildings by Mies include the Farnsworth House, the Tugendhat House in the Czech Republic, Crown Hall at IIT and Lake Shore Apartments in Chicago. Barcelona Pavilion photograph © Adrian Welch Barcelona Pavilion The building is also known as the ´German Pavilion´ or 'Mies van der Rohe Pavilion'. Mies van der Rohe was interested in developing free flowing space and this is done using walls as planes in isolation, joined by sliding elements or glass. Thus the wall is expressed as a single element with space flowing around it. The majority of the building is constructed out of cream-coloured travertine which gives the architecture a luxurious feel and aids the perception of spaciousness. Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, USA 1950 image © gm+ad architects Farnsworth House Modern house design by Mies van der Rohe for Dr. Edith Farnsworth: she sold the home in 1972 to Lord Palumbo - beautiful floating planes, a famous example of Modern architecture. 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1951 photo : William Zbaren Lake Shore Drive Apartments Exposed steel and glass apartment towers, classic Mies van der Rohe architecture. Apparently no other building by Mies van der Rohe had as immediate or strong an impact on his American contemporaries, and the influence of these structures was to pervade much of modern architecture. Tugendhat House, Brno, Czech Republic 1930 photograph © Adrian Welch Tugendhat house The Tugendhat House is - for me - one of the best buildings I've visited. With its floor-to-soffit glazing that electronically slid into the walls below to the key entertaining spaces, its beautiful use of materials and tightly-controlled plan the house is a joy. The red onyx wall is orientated orthogonally but also with an eye to the sunsets: it glows a deep red colour with speckles of black and white where the onyx contains other stones and small holes. Mies van der Rohe emigrated to the USA in 1938 Another key building by Mies van der Rohe is the Seagram Building in New York: Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue, New York 1954-58 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect; Philip Johnson, architect Philip Johnson became an associate for Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building in 1955: he worked on interiors such as the Four Seasons Restaurant. Seagram Building Buildings by Mies van der Rohe in America Crown Hall + IIT Masterplan, Chicago, Illinois 1940- Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois 1950 Lake Shore Apartments, Chicago, Illinois 1951 Seagram Building, New York 1958 Farnsworth House image © gm+ad architects Mies van der Rohe Buildings in the USA open to the public Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, Plano, Illinois, USA 1950 Mies van der Rohe, architect Crown Hall - IIT, 3360 South State St, Chicago, Illinois 1940- Mies van der Rohe with Pace Associates & C. F. Murphy Associates College of Architecture building, Illinois Institute of Technology IIT Masterplan 1940 Mies van der Rohe, architect Illinois Institute of Technology - Website: www.iit.edu Building close by: New Student Center by Rem Koolhaas / Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10152 1958 Mies van der Rohe, architect with Philip Johnson, architect Details & proportions influenced by Lake Shore Drive in Chicago Open to the public: Seagram Gallery + Four Seasons Restaurant Tours: every Tue, 3 pm Seagram Building - Contact: +1 212 572 7000 Illinois Institute of Technology Buildings Mies van der Rohe Building in the USA not open to the public 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago, Illinois 1948-51 Other Mies van der Rohe Buildings Mies van der Rohe buildings listed chronologically: Wolf House, Guben, Germany/Poland 1926 Hermann Lange House, Krefeld, Germany 1928 Josef Esters House, Krefeld, Germany 1930 Karl Lemke House - Landhaus Lemke, Berlin, Germany 1932/33 Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto, Canada 1967 Mellon Hall of Science, Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania, USA 1968 Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany 1968 IBM Building, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1971 Chicago Federal Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1974 National Gallery Building, Berlin: photo © Adrian Welch Mies van der Rohe Architecture Mies van der Rohe buildings listed alphabetically: Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain Chicago Federal Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA Crown Hall + IIT Masterplan, Chicago, Illinois, USA Farnsworth House, Plano, USA IBM Building, Chicago, USA Lake Shore Apartments, Chicago, Illinois, USA Landhaus Lemke, Berlin, Germany Mellon Hall of Science, Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania, USA Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany Seagram Building, New York, USA Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto, Canada Weissenhof apartment house, Stuttgart, Germany The Caroline Wiess Law Building, MFAH, Texas, USA photo © MFAH Mies van der Rohe building : Museum of Fine Arts Houston Mies van der Rohe building photos welcome at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Mies van der Rohe Awards Mies van der Rohe architect - Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 1959 Barcelona Pavilion photograph © Adrian Welch Mies van der Rohe architect National Gallery Berlin, Germany photograph © Adrian Welch Mies van der Rohe building Barcelona Pavilion photos

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Mies van der Rohe originally based in Germany, but the architect spent most of his career in the United States. Celebrated International Style architect

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