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    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a pioneering German-American architect known for developing the International Style of architecture. Though he lacked formal training, his early commissions and work for influential architect Peter Behrens connected him with leaders of the modernist movement. Notable for his maxim that "less is more," Mies designed sleek glass and steel buildings featuring open floor plans and an honest display of structural elements. His Barcelona Pavilion of 1929 exemplified his approach through its use of free-standing steel columns to achieve both spatial integration and subdivision.

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    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a pioneering German-American architect known for developing the International Style of architecture. Though he lacked formal training, his early commissions and work for influential architect Peter Behrens connected him with leaders of the modernist movement. Notable for his maxim that "less is more," Mies designed sleek glass and steel buildings featuring open floor plans and an honest display of structural elements. His Barcelona Pavilion of 1929 exemplified his approach through its use of free-standing steel columns to achieve both spatial integration and subdivision.

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    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a pioneering German-American architect known for developing the International Style of architecture. Though he lacked formal training, his early commissions and work for influential architect Peter Behrens connected him with leaders of the modernist movement. Notable for his maxim that "less is more," Mies designed sleek glass and steel buildings featuring open floor plans and an honest display of structural elements. His Barcelona Pavilion of 1929 exemplified his approach through its use of free-standing steel columns to achieve both spatial integration and subdivision.

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    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a pioneering German-American architect known for developing the International Style of architecture. Though he lacked formal training, his early commissions and work for influential architect Peter Behrens connected him with leaders of the modernist movement. Notable for his maxim that "less is more," Mies designed sleek glass and steel buildings featuring open floor plans and an honest display of structural elements. His Barcelona Pavilion of 1929 exemplified his approach through its use of free-standing steel columns to achieve both spatial integration and subdivision.

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    MIES VAN DER ROHE

    [BORN:MARCH 27,1886 GERMANY]


    HOW MIES VAN DER ROHE BECOME FAMOUS?

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe helped his father on various construction sites but didn’t receive any formal
    architectural training. Mies’s first commission, a suburban house, so impressed architect Peter
    Behrens that he offered the 21-year-old a job. Through Behrens, Mies made significant contacts that
    would later lead to academic roles and large-scale projects.

    WHY IS MIES VAN DER ROHE SO FAMOUS?

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-born American architect whose rectilinear forms, crafted in
    elegant simplicity, epitomized the International Style and exemplified his famous principle that “less is
    more.” He went further than anyone else regarding structural honesty, making the actual supports of
    his buildings their dominant architectural features.

    EARLY WORK AND INFLUENCE:

    In 1905, at the age of 19, Mies went to work for an architect in Berlin, but he soon left his job to become
    an apprentice with Bruno Paul, a leading furniture designer who worked in the Art Nouveau style of the
    period.

    After 2 years he received his first commission of suburban house. After knowing his work Peter Berhens
    Germany most progressive architect offered a job for 21 years old Van der Rohe at his office where
    Walter Grophius and Le Corbusier was just starting.

    Mies established ties with this association of artists and craftsmen. These ideas motivated the “modern”
    movement in architecture that would soon culminate in the so-called International Style of modern
    architecture.

    WORK AFTER WORLD WAR-01:

    During World War I Mies served as an enlisted man, building bridges and roads in the Balkans. When
    he returned to Berlin in 1918, the fall of the German monarchy and the birth of the democratic Weimar
    Republic helped inspire a prodigious burst of new creativity among modernist artists and architects.

    During that time Architecture, painting and sculpture according to manifesto of Bauhaus gave different
    expression in buildings. Mies’s most important work of these years remained on paper and are in display
    of New York Museum.

    The Friedrichstrasse Office Building (1919) was one of the first proposals for an all steel-and-glass
    building and established the Miesian principle of “skin and bones construction.”

    HIS WORKS VILLA TUNGDHET:

    Mies used the same design principle of the free plan and fluid space that he used at Barcelona.
    Conceptually, however, the dualistic play of columns and planes was replaced by an investigation of
    space as simultaneously integrated and subdivided. The spatial freedom and structural rigour of the
    Barcelona Pavilion was achieved by Mies’ employing, for the first time, a repetitive order of free-standing
    steel columns. The pavilion was an aesthetic exercise that had limited practical functions. For the Villa
    Tugendhat, designed over the same period, Mies had to address the diverse and complex requirements
    of a dwelling.

    ABOUT BUILDING:
    In this buildings he tries to play with slope and and façade of the buildings. Use of different materials to
    give architectural language.

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