Even people who hate modern architecture–all those featureless skyscrapers bunched along heartless avenues!–can have a soft spot for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the most steadfast Modernist of them all.

The art markets are always a gamble, but Sotheby's year-end sale of "Important 20th Century Design" was more heart-stopping than usual. For only the third time in memory, a work of modern architecture ...

How did modern architecture develop to its present state? Three new monographs trace that path, even if they don't cover every direction the field has taken over the last century. In Mies van der Rohe ...

Mies van der Rohe’s professional career was one of continuous exploration, endless ambition, and a tireless search for what modern architecture should be and stand for. Becoming the director of the ...

Unlike many potential reviewers of this volume, I recall vividly the hubbub that accompanied the centennial of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s (1886–1969) birth. I was a graduate student at the time under ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the world’s greatest living architect, has long been fascinated by the idea of building museums. In 1943, he outlined his concept for “a museum for a small city” in ...

Basis for the publication is the symposium "Die Wohnung unserer Zeit--Möbelentwürfe und Innenraumkonzepte von Ludwig Mie van der Rohe" (The Dwelling in our Time--Furniture Designs and Interior ...

What unites the seven finalist projects is a strong focus on the human dimension of architecture. The jury emphasized that these works illustrate how contemporary practice can balance preservation and ...

To fully appreciate the departure architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe made with his pair of residential towers at 860 and 880 N. Lake Shore Drive one must look a little farther north, where the drive ...

A modest red brick house at Oberseestr. 60 in Lichtenberg was the last project of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe before the architect emigrated to the United States in 1937. The house was built in the early ...