Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

E14831

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a pioneering 20th-century German-American architect known for his minimalist “less is more” philosophy and influential modernist buildings such as the Barcelona Pavilion and the Seagram Building.

All labels observed (3)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (63)

Predicate Object
instanceOf German-American
architect
modernist architect
person
birthCountry German Empire
birthDate 1886-03-27
birthName Maria Ludwig Michael Mies
birthPlace Aachen
citizenship Germany
United States of America
coinOrPopularized phrase "God is in the details"
phrase "less is more"
deathCountry United States of America
deathDate 1969-08-17
deathPlace Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: Chicago
designed Barcelona Pavilion
Crown Hall
Farnsworth House
Neue Nationalgalerie
Seagram Building
Villa Tugendhat
directorEndYear 1933
directorOf Bauhaus
directorStartYear 1930
education apprenticeship with Peter Behrens
employer Bauhaus
Illinois Institute of Technology
famousFor minimalist architectural style
steel-and-glass skyscrapers
“less is more” philosophy
father Michael Mies
fullName Maria Ludwig Michael Mies
influenced International Style
surface form: International Style architecture

postwar modernist skyscraper design
influencedBy De Stijl
surface form: Dutch De Stijl movement

Peter Behrens
Russian Constructivism
knownAs Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
mother Amalie Rohe
movement International Style
Modernism
nationality American
German
notableWork 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments
Barcelona Pavilion
Crown Hall
Farnsworth House
Illinois Institute of Technology
surface form: Illinois Institute of Technology campus plan

Lafayette Park, Detroit
860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments
surface form: Lake Shore Drive Apartments

Neue Nationalgalerie
Seagram Building
Villa Tugendhat
occupation architect
positionHeld director of the Bauhaus
head of architecture department at Illinois Institute of Technology
relocatedTo United States of America
relocationYear 1937
spouse Adele Auguste Bruhn
styleCharacteristic exposed structural frame
extensive use of glass curtain walls
minimal ornamentation
open-plan interiors

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (102)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fritz Tugendhat patronage Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Fritz Tugendhat commissionedFrom Ludwig Mies van der Rohe