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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Pioneer of modern architecture and last director of the Bauhaus.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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He died on August 17, 1969.[1] People often called him Mies, which was his surname.[1]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Maria Ludwig Michael Mies
Citizenship
Germany (1886–1944), United States (1944–1969)
Born
27 March 1886
Birthplace
Aachen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died
17 August 1969
Place of death
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Children
4

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Mies renamed himself by adding "van der" and his mother's maiden name "Rohe" to transform from a tradesman's son to an architect working with Berlin's cultural elite.[2] He married Adele Auguste Bruhn in 1913, and they separated in 1918 after having three daughters.[3] In the 1930s, Mies was the last director of the Bauhaus, and after Nazism's rise he emigrated to the United States in 1937 or 1938.[4] In 1944, he became a US citizen.[5]

He designed the 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments between 1948 and 1951, which came to define postwar US Modernism.[6] Before relocating to Berlin and starting work at interior designer Bruno Paul's firm, Mies gained experience in his father's stone carving shop and at several local design firms.[7] Between 1908 and 1912, Mies apprenticed at Peter Behrens's studio, which launched his architectural career.[7] For the Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus, Mies created both the master plan and new structures, among them S.R. Crown Hall.[8]

What the cited sources add

The Chicago Federal Center Plaza unifies Mies's complex of three buildings of varying scales: the mid-rise Everett McKinley Dirksen Building, the high-rise John C. Kluczynski Building, and the single-story Post Office building.[9] From 1959 through 1974, the firms Schmidt, Garden & Erickson; C.F. Murphy Associates; and A. Epstein & Sons were among the associated architects involved with the complex.[9] Rediscovered in 2013, this design was used by the university to construct a building that was completed and opened by June 2022.[10][11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Mies van der Rohe Dies at 83; Leader of Modern Architecture", The New York Times, August 17, 1969 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Haubrich, "Die Moderne ist Geschichte", Die Welt, July 18, 2001; "Ludwieg Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969)", designboom.com; Adams, "Do Italian last names beginning with "de," "del," or "della" indicate nobility?", The Straight Dope, April 6, 1990; "Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe", Architectuul.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Schulze, "Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition", University of Chicago Press; "In Memoriam", Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, February 1960, p. 32 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dyckhoff, "Mies and the Nazis", the Guardian, November 30, 2002 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Trevor Homer, "Born in the USA: The American Book of Origins", Skyhorse Publishing, December 13, 2013, p. 167– (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century", Yale University Press, 2012, p. 201 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Frank N. Magill, "The 20th Century Go-N: Dictionary of World Biography", Routledge, March 5, 2014, p. 2520; Frank N. Magill, "The 20th Century Go-N: Dictionary of World Biography", Routledge, March 5, 2014, p. 2520; Jean-Louis Cohen, "Mies Van Der Rohe", Taylor & Francis, 1996, p. 13; Jean-Louis Cohen, "Mies Van Der Rohe", Taylor & Francis, 1996, p. 15 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Serrano Avilés, "Mies van der Rohe's Illinois Institute of Technology: Analysis and History of a Compositive Development", 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "Chicago Federal Center Plaza". facts only, no text reused. tclf.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "IU dedicates rediscovered Mies van der Rohe design, now under construction"; "Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design Mies van der Rohe Building" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  11. "Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design Mies van der Rohe Building". facts only, no text reused. cpf.iu.edu

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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