The Architectural design work of Mies van der Rohe.

1. Mies van der Rohe
1886-1969

2. Mies van der Rohe
1886-1969

3. “Less is more”
Mies van der Rohe

4. Barcelona Pavilion
1929 International Exhibition
Barcelona, Spain

12. The Farnsworth House
The Glass HouseMies van der Rohe
Philip Johnson

13. The Farnsworth House
 Deisnged and Constructed by Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe in 1945-51
 Located 55 miles outside of downtown Chicago
 Designed for Dr. Edith Farnsworth for weekend
retreats
 http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/

14. “All of the paraphernalia of traditional living –
rooms, walls, doors, interior trim, loose
furniture, pictures on walls, even personal
possessions – have been virtually abolished in a
puritanical vision of simplified, transcendental
existence.”
- Maritz Vandenburg

23. The Glass House
 Deisnged by Philip Johnson 1945-48
 Furniture by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
 Located in New Canaan, Connecticut
 http://theglasshouse.org/

24. • Philip Johnson lived in the Glass House from 1949
until he died in 2005
• Original design has stayed to present day
• Most of the furnishings came from the furniture in
Johnsons New York apartment. The rest was
designed by Mies specifically for the Glass House.

27. Seagram
Building
New York
1958

33. Crown Hall
Illinois Institute of
Technology
Chicago
1956

35. “God is in the details”
Mies van der Rohe

39. Mies utilized a grid as his underlying
principle for the campus, and this was
added to and built upon by his
successors.
A 24-foot square grid invisibly overlays the
campus to guide its order. Then, by sliding
the building volumes beyond one another
rather than aligning them, Mies created
variety of experiences