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The great architect, which Google paid tribute, was born March 27, 1886 at Aix-la-Chapelle and died August 17, 1969 in Chicago.\u00a0He gave his name to one of the most prestigious awards.<\/p>\n
Mies van der Rohe is remembered with a burly inseparable from his big cigar.\u00a0The architect who was director of the Bauhaus in Germany before going into exile in 1938 in the U.S. with the rise of Nazism, retains the large glass facades which the Seagram Building on Park Avenue opening in New York is the most perfect expression.<\/p>\n
At the turn of the century, this supporter of the extensive use of glass and steel left his name in history with his German Pavilion for the International Exhibition of 1929.<\/p>\n
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Follower of minimalism<\/strong> His career marks a decisive step when he emigrated to the United Unispour flee Nazism.\u00a0On his arrival, he already recognizes some influence as a designer.\u00a0As Director of the Bauhaus, he also won many competitions for various architectural projects.\u00a0Fan of minimalism, this purist architecture attaches particular importance to the relationship between inside and outside, so that buildings blend with the city or nature.Commissioned by Dr. Edith Farnsworth in 1945, in an area of ??24 acres along the Fox River in Illinois, the Farnsworth House is the finest example.\u00a0Mies created for her a house made entirely of glass and steel of 135 m2 where it can enjoy the scenery while indulging his poetic and musical passions.<\/p>\n A universal architecture At the time, the modernist spirit of Mies van der Rohe was not immediately perceived.\u00a0In 1981 the art critic and polemicist Tom Wolfe pointed out in From Bauhaus to Our House that to meet the building code regulations, including fire prevention, elements of steel structure had to be protected by concrete and\u00a0coated steel, compromising direct and clear expression of the structure willed by Mies van der Rohe.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The great architect, which Google paid tribute, was born March 27, 1886 at Aix-la-Chapelle and died August 17, 1969 in Chicago.\u00a0He gave his name to one of the most prestigious awards. Mies van der Rohe is remembered with a burly inseparable from his big cigar.\u00a0The architect who was director of the Bauhaus in Germany before going into exile in 1938 in the U.S. with the rise of Nazism, retains the large glass facades which the Seagram Building on Park Avenue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[93],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAfter starting out in the classic agency Peter Behrens, where he met Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, this native of Aix-la-Chapelle launches into innovative designs borrowing some ideas from Karl Friedrich Schinkel.\u00a0In 1921, the skyscraper on the all-glass Friedrichstra\u00dfe is seen as a manifest of Expressionism in architecture.\u00a0From 1912 to 1914, Mies van der Rohe worked as an architect in Berlin, before being called to serve in the army during WWI.\u00a0In 1920-1930, he played a major role in his writings and his lectures at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Its architecture is also marked by the dissociation of the envelope and structure.\u00a0During the last twenty years of his life, Mies achieved his vision comes to architecture and fine slender that to be universal, as evidenced by its recent achievements in New York and Chicago.\u00a0In charge of the department of Chicago\u2019s Armour Institute of Technology (later renamed Illinois Institute of Technology or IIT), it is redeveloping the campus.\u00a0Some of his most famous are still there including Crown Hall, home of the School of Architecture at IIT.<\/p>\n