Mies van der rohe

MIESvan der Rohe1886-1969

Born on March 27, 1886in Aachen, Germany

A a c h e nGERMANY

became both architect and educator in Berlin1905-37

Trained in Bruno Paul Office (Architect & Furniture Design)1905-07

As employee in Peter Behrens office1908-11

As Director of Bauhaus School of Design1930-33

“… I believe that architecture has little or nothing to do with

True architecture is always objective and is the expression

the invention of interesting of forms or with personal inclinations.

of the inner structure of our time,from which it stems.”

interesting of formspersonal inclinations

GLASSSkyscraper On a Prismatic Plan

Competition Project, 1919Glass high-rise on a prismatic plan,charcoal drawingAt Friedrichstrasse Railway Station in Berlin

Office skyscraper / a 20-storey steel skeletonEncased in glass

GLASSSkyscraper On a Polygonal Plan

Project, 1920-21

Studies of light reflectionsExploit the potential of materials + technology

“My ideas guide my hand, and my hand shows whether my idea is any good.”

REINFORCEDCONCRETEOffice Building

Project, 1922

Cantilevered concrete slabs Leaving the interior free and uncluttered

4 m. 4 m.

Flexibility in the layout of the offices

Country HouseCONCRETE

Project, 1924

As if it had been cast in a single mould. The play of forms between the house, the garden and the natural setting.

Country HouseBRICK

The bearing walls Connect the interior and exterior

Flow of space from one room to the next No corridors

Basic unit of the brick

Project, 1923

B R I C KWORK

We do not know form.We know only problems of structure.

Form is not the objective, it is the result of our work.

for Karl LiebknechtMONUMENTand Rosa Luxemburg

Berlin, 1926

Guben, 1925-1926WOLF HOUSE

“We do not know form - we know only problems of structure Form is not the objective; it is the result of our work...

Form as a goal is Formalism, and that is something we reject…”

Guben, 1925-1926WOLF HOUSE

Krefeld, 1928LANGE&ESTERSHOUSE

The World Exhibition

GERMANBarcelona, 1928-29Pavilion Flexible Plan

The need for light + air + verdure


GERMANBarcelona, 1928-29Pavilion

B a u k u n s tB a u - Building - the static & law-conforming element

Strict intellectual orderK u n s t - Art - the free & creative element

Operate within a clear structure



Mies first developed non-bearing walls

pool

pool

1983-86reconstructionPavilionClear & Visible Structure

Matched to the purpose of the building and the nature of materials

1983-86reconstructionPavilion

1x1 m. module

1983-86reconstructionPavilionHoney-colored golden onyx

1983-86reconstructionPavilionAntigue-green Tinian MarbleFrosted glass

1983-86reconstructionPavilionA figure of a dancer by Georg Kolbe


Chromium Plated Covers

1983-86reconstructionPavilionMaterial + Structure + Space --> Transcendent Unity

Everything was subordinated to the whole

Brno, Czechoslovakia

TUGENDHATHOUSE1928-30

Brno, 1928-30TUGENDHATHOUSE

Freely Floating Space


Reconstruction 1983-85


Furniture for Tugendhat House 1930


1938 Mr.&Mrs.Tugendhat left the house1939 Was taken over - design studio1944 Was damaged by the bomb1945 Red Army Soldiers moved in1960s the issues of reconstruction

1983-85 Reconstruction

sittingFURNITUREF O R


Cantilever Chair, 1927


Barcelona Chair, 1929Furniture for the Barcelona pavilion

High-Quality flat bars of spring steel


MR Armchair1932 onwards


Shell Chair of Plastic, 1946

“I did not try to make a structure in a mass.”

Verner Panton1926-98

Stacking Chair, 1960

Moved to the U.S1937

HOUSEFARNSWORTH

a single roomglass housePlano, Illinois, 1945-50

HOUSEFARNSWORTH Not the past, not the future

Only the present can be subjected to form.

HOUSEFARNSWORTH

… I had never known till then what splendid colours nature can display ...

HOUSEFARNSWORTH

1938 As director of School of Architectureat the Armour Institute (AIT)

Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)Initial Design for the Campus Project

Architecture & DesignCROWN HALLBuilding, IIT1952-56

Architecture & DesignCROWN HALLBuilding, IIT


Post & Beam carry the roof

Architecture & DesignCROWN HALLBuilding, IITFree of internal column

Flexibility of arrangementin the interior

APARTMENTSPROMONTORYChicago, 1946-49

Steel-and-Glass VersionReinforced Concrete Version

22-storey framed apartment tower

APARTMENTSPROMONTORYChicago, 1946-4922-storey framed apartment tower

Reinforced concrete columns are stepped backprogressively towards the upper storeys

APARTMENTS860 LAKE SHORE DRIVE

Chicago, 1948-51


Chicago, 1948-511 9 6 3 1 9 8 3


Chicago, 1948-51

BUILDINGSEAGRAMNew York, 1954-58


Rough sketch of the open space


The more a building was pared to its essential structural and functional elements


The more a building was pared to its essential structural and functional elements

The less superfluous imagery is usedThe more a building expresses its structure and formis

BUILDINGBACARDISantiago de Cuba, 1957-59

GALLERYBerlin, 1962-68NATIONAL

MIES van derRohe1886-1969

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