Ludwig Mies van der Rohe numele la natere: Maria Ludwig Michael Mies, n. 27 martie 1886 d.

. 17 august 1969, a fost un arhitect german, unul dintre cei mai influeni arhiteci ai secolului XX. Mies van der Rohe, alturi de Walter Gropius i Le Corbusier, este considerat ca unul dintre pionierii, dar i maetrii arhitecturii moderne. Ca muli alii dintre contemporanii si postbelici, a cutat s genereze un stil arhitectural care ar fi reprezentativ pentru timpurile moderne, aidoma cum, la rndul lor, stilurile gotic, renascentist i baroc fuseser reprezentative pentru timpurile lor. Rezultatul creaiei sale arhitecturale este unul din stilurile cele mai influente ale secolului XX, marcat de claritate i simplitate. Cldirile din epoca maturitii creaiei sale artistice utilizez materiale moderne, aa cum ar fi oelul industrial i sticla plan, cu ajutorul crora a definit spaii i suprafee elegante i n acelai timp austere. Arhitectul german, mai ales n perioada american a creaiei sale, a dezvoltat pn la simplitatea maxim, specific doar maetrilor, utilizarea produselor industriale de serie (oelul, sticla, betonul armat, metale i aliaje dure), iniiat de Gropius i el n perioada lor numit Bauhaus, pentru a crea o arhitectur esenializat, cu o mare putere de sugestie. Mies van der Rohe a numit acest stil arhitectural propus de el arhitectur piele i oase. Alii au numit-o mai puin este mai mult, conform less is more / Weniger ist mehr. n sfrit, alii au denumit-o Dumnezeu este n detalii, conform God is in the details / Gott steckt im Detail. Mies a fost ucenic n atelierul de lucrri n piatr al propriului su tat, apoi a lucrat la diverse firme locale de design niante de a se muta la Berlin, unde a lucrat la firma de decorri interioare a lui Bruno Paul. i-a nceput cariera arhitectural ca ucenic n studioul lui Peter Behrens, ntre 1908 i1912, unde a luat contact cu teoriile designului contemporan lui, privite din perspectiva ansamblului cultural german. n ciuda lipsei sale de educaie ntr-un colegiu sau universitate, talentul su a fost rapid recunoscut, primind frecvent comenzi personale. Fiind fizic impozant, deliberativ i reticent, n 1922 Mies s-a renumit, ca o parte a rapidei sale transformri din fiu de comerciant ntr-un arhitect i designer care se adresa elitei Berlinului, adugndu-i la numele de familie cuvintele nobiliare van der Rohe, deci numindu-se de acum ncolo Mies van der Rohe. i-a nceput cariera independent profesional proiectnd pentru clasa mijlocie nstrit case n bun stil german tradiional. n aceast perioad a vieii sale admira proporiile largi i volumetria cubic simpl a lucrrilor arhitectului Karl Friedrich Schinkel, care produsese la nceputul secolului al XIX-lea numeroase cldiri n stil prusian neoclasic. n acelai timp, dispreuia fis eclectismul, respectiv clasicismul aglomerat i eterogen al perioadei de trecere dintre secolele al XIX-lea i al XX-lea. Wikipedia. Cunoscut drept Mies, arhitectul a plecat din Aachen, Germania, la vrsta de 19 ani i a creat prima sa cldire, Casa Riehl, la 21 de ani. El s-a aflat n spatele designului a numeroase case din Germania, dup care i-a ndreptat atenia spre mobil, n special scaune i mese. Ultima sa cas construit n Germania a fost Casa Lemke din Berlin. El a emigrat apoi n SUA, unde ia continuat munca. A devenit eful Institutului Armour - cunoscut acum drept Institutul de Tehnologie din Illinois - n 1938. Mies a creat mai multe cldiri din campus. Apartamentele Promontory din Chicago au reprezentat primul bloc nalt creat de Mies, urmat apoi de Apartamentele Lake Shore. Casa sa 50x50 a fost unul din proiectele sale celebre, create drept o soluie la construcia masiv de case, ns nu a fost niciodat construit. Imaginea folosit de Google drept logo ne prezint designul SR Crown Hall de la Institutul de Tehnologie din Illinois, terminat n 1956. Descris drept o oper de art, este creat doar din oel i sticl, n exterior. Cldirea a fost avariat cnd un aparat folosit pentru uscarea betonului a explodat, distrucnd aproape jumtate din primul etaj i cauznd daune de 100.000 de dolari. n 1956 a fost terminat.

Cotidianu

LUCRARI
Early career in Berlin (1907-1938) 1907 Riehl House Residential Home, Potsdam, Germany 1911 Perl House Residential Home, Zehlendorf 1913 Werner House Residential Home, Zehlendorf 1917 Urbig House Residential Home, Potsdam 1922 Kempner House Residential Home, Charlottenburg 1922 Eichstaedt House Residential Home, Wannsee 1922 Feldmann House Residential Home, Wilmersdorf 1926 Mosler House Residential Home, Babelsberg 1927 Weissenhof Estate Housing Exhibition coordinated by Mies and with a contribution by him, Stuttgart 1928 Haus Lange and Haus Esters Residential Home and an art museum, Krefeld 1929 Barcelona Pavilion World's Fair Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain 1930 Villa Tugendhat Residential Home, Brno, Czech Republic, designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001 1932 Lemke House Residential Home, Weissensee 1946 Farnsworth House Residential Home, Plano, Illinois 1949 The Promontory Apartments Residential Apartment Complex, Chicago 1949-51 Lake Shore Drive Apartments Residential Apartment Towers, Chicago 1954 Cullinan Hall Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1950-56 Crown Hall College of Architecture, and other buildings, at the Illinois Institute of Technology 1957 Commonwealth Promenade Apartments Residential Apartment Complex, Chicago (1957)[11] 1958 Seagram Building Office Tower, New York City 1958 Caroline Weiss Law Building, Museum of Fine Art, Houston 1959 Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments Residential Apartment Complex, Newark, New Jersey 1959 Lafayette Park Residential Development, Detroit, Michigan.[12] 1958-61 Bacardi Office Building Office Building, Mexico City 1962 Tourelle-Sur-Rive Residential apartment complex of three towers, Nuns' Island, Montreal, Canada 1962 One Charles Center Office Tower, Baltimore, Maryland 1964 Chicago Federal Center 1960-64 Dirksen Federal Building Office Tower, Chicago United States Post Office Loop Station General Post Office, Chicago 1964 Highfield House Condominium, 4000 North Charles Condominium Apartments, Baltimore, Maryland 1965 University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Chicago, IL 1965 Richard King Mellon Hall Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 1965 Meredith Hall College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Drake University, Des Moines, IA 1967 Westmount Square Office & Residential Tower Complex, Westmount, Canada 1967 One Illinois Center Office Tower, Chicago 1968 Neue Nationalgalerie Modern Art Museum, Berlin, Germany 1965-68 Brown Pavilion, Museum of Fine Art, Houston 1967-69 Toronto-Dominion Centre Office Tower Complex, Toronto, Canada 1969 Filling station Nuns' Island, Montreal, Canada (closed) 1972 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library District of Columbia Public Library, Washington, D.C. 1973 American Life Building Louisville, Kentucky (completed after Mies's death by Bruno Conterato) 1973 IBM Plaza Office Tower, Chicago (completed post-mortem)

ENG
Mies designed modern furniture pieces using new industrial technologies that have become popular classics, such as the Barcelona chair and table, the Brno chair, and the Tugendhat chair. Mies played a significant role as an educator, believing his architectural language could be learned, then applied to design any type of modern building. He set up a new education at the department of architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago replacing the traditional Ecole des Beaux-Art curriculum by a three-step-education beginning with crafts of drawing and construction leading to planning skills and finishing with theory of architecture (compare Vitruvius: firmitas, utilitas, venustas). Mies pursued an ambitious lifelong mission to create a new architectural language that could be used to represent the new era of technology and production. He saw a need for an architecture expressive of and in harmony with his epoch, just as Gothic architecture was for an era of spiritualism. He applied a disciplined design process using rational thought to achieve his spiritual goals. He believed that the configuration and arrangement of every architectural element, particularly including the character of enclosed space, must contribute to a unified expression. The self-educated Mies painstakingly studied the great philosophers and thinkers, past and present, to enhance his own understanding of the character and essential qualities of the technological times he lived in. More than perhaps any other practising pioneer of modernism, Mies mined the writings of philosophers and thinkers for ideas that were relevant to his architectural mission. Mies' architecture was guided by principles at a high level of abstraction, and his own generalized descriptions of those principles intentionally leave much room for interpretation. Yet his buildings are executed as objects of beauty and craftsmanship, and seem very direct and simple when viewed in person.