Mies van der Rohe

Illustration: Matthew Green

Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)

William J R Curtis, author of the seminal texts Modern Architecture Since 1900 and Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms, writes on the ‘lucid quietude’ of Mies van de Roh...

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Reborn: Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic

Director Iveta Černá uncovers eighty year of history while restoring the Villa Tugendhat to its initial splendour

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Dress rehearsal: Chicago Architecture Biennial 2023
Convention Hall

Schizoid Mies
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Mies: Behind the Smoke Screen
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Building Seagram: A Memoir of Mies and Modernism
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1993 April: Mies' miraculous survivor, Villa Tugendhat
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The pavilion and the court: cultural and spatial problems of De Stijl architecture

Essays about Modernism

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