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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at Drawing Matter
13.05.2025

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at Drawing Matter13.05.2025

– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg

…108 mm. DMC 2691.14. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Model for Weissenhof Estate, Stuttgart, Germany, 1925. Silver gelatin print, 145 × 228 mm. DMC 2691.12. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,…

theoretical & imaginary domestic urban form sketch plan DMC section research guide elevation collection guide presentation

Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project
30.08.2022

Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project30.08.2022

– Landry Smith

…Mies loved perhaps long-span buildings better than tall buildings. – Gene Summers Mies van der Rohe’s exploration of universal space and the potentials of clear-span construction began during the war…

projection (axonometric isometric) civic & municipal domestic

Mies van der Rohe: Clarity as the Aim
17.04.2024

Mies van der Rohe: Clarity as the Aim17.04.2024

– Carlos Martí Arís

…Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Notes Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, ‘The New Time’, in Fritz Neumeyer, The Artless Word: Mies van der Rohe on the Building Art (Cambridge: MIT…

plan DMC sketch

Mies van der Rohe: Neue Stadt
22.07.2016

Mies van der Rohe: Neue Stadt22.07.2016

– Markus Lähteenmäki

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Neue Stadt, c.1925. Photomontage, 144 × 120 mm. DMC 2688. In the photographs most often reproduced of the Glass Skyscraper by Ludwig Mies van…

publication theoretical & imaginary DMC

Hans van der Laan’s Instruments of Thought: Proportion, Architecture, Analogy (2025)
16.05.2025

Hans van der Laan’s Instruments of Thought: Proportion, Architecture, Analogy (2025)16.05.2025

– C.M. Howell

…Technology, where Mies Van der Rohe helped to inaugurate a similar programme.[12,13] The difference of a pedagogy formed Van der Laan’s theory is, once again, the three-dimensional character of his…

elevation projection (axonometric isometric) presentation

Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion (2005)
16.03.2021

Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion (2005)16.03.2021

– George Dodds

…and Marco Frascari. Robin Evans, ‘Mies van der Rohe’s Paradoxical Symmetries,’ AA Files, Vol. 19 (Spring, 1990): 63–4. Evans, ‘Mies van der Rohe’s Paradoxical Symmetries,’ 63. Evans, ‘Mies van der…

exhibition

Mies: The Horizon
14.06.2020

Mies: The Horizon14.06.2020

– Robin Evans

…had been promoted to greatness. But what I saw in the reconstruction was a building that ate ideas. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), German Pavilion for the 1929 International…

exhibition design culture exhibition

Mies: The Berlin Building Expostition (1974)
25.06.2020

Mies: The Berlin Building Expostition (1974)25.06.2020

– Philip Johnson

…rent shop windows in order even to be talked about. What is surprising, especially to an American, is that Mies van der Rohe was chosen to direct this section; the…

exhibition design presentation exhibition DMC

Mies: The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective
24.10.2016

Mies: The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective24.10.2016

– Desley Luscombe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Courthouse study, c.1935. Pen and India ink on wove paper, laid on board, 215 × 298 mm. DMC 2052. What is compelling about the…

DMC sketch projection (axonometric isometric) domestic

Diagrams: Hans van der Heijden in Conversation with Richard Hall
05.05.2021

Diagrams: Hans van der Heijden in Conversation with Richard Hall05.05.2021

– Richard Hall

…van Dijk, ‘Het onderwijzersmodernisme’, Archis 6. (1990), 8-12. See: https://hvdha.com/en/diagram-of-the-house/ Karin Templin, Street Architecture: Work by Hans van der Heijden (Amsterdam: Hans van der Heijden Architect, 2018). Lutherhof at Staringplein…

projection (axonometric isometric) concept & diagram housing

Spring Open Weekend 5 & 6 April 2024 – Drawing Clusters
02.04.2025

Spring Open Weekend 5 & 6 April 2024 – Drawing Clusters02.04.2025

…van der Rohe, Glass Skyscraper model, Germany, 1922. Early silver gelatin print on matte paper. Photograph by Curt Rehbein. Mies 2961.3 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (et. al), early study…

Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam
24.01.2022

Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam24.01.2022

– Michael Young

…of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Although there are important differences in the approaches to these representations over his career, there is a consistency to the stance regarding the seam…

presentation

Architectural Anxiety
28.09.2011

Architectural Anxiety28.09.2011

– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg

…finally refused consent by Anthony Crosland, then environment secretary, overturning the recommendation of the planning inspector at appeal. Marchionni and Mies Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Glass Skyscraper Project…

elevation projection (axonometric isometric) topographic/cartographic DMC presentation art practice landscape public space sketch work on paper (series)

Disegno: Mastery and Uncertainty
19.01.2018

Disegno: Mastery and Uncertainty19.01.2018

…a coupling of photo-collages by Mies van der Rohe tells a story of beginnings and endings, or before and after, that in a way summarises his long career. Peter Märkli,…

Displaced Persons
03.10.2012

Displaced Persons03.10.2012

– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg

…similar feeling of uncertainty about the figures used to render Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s proposal to redesign the interior of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Neue Wache in Berlin as a…

urban form education public space theatre section interior DMC exhibition design work on paper (series) health & leisure memorial & monument

Buffington & Mies: Skyscrapers on Paper
31.01.2025

Buffington & Mies: Skyscrapers on Paper31.01.2025

– Niall Hobhouse

…extremes of temperature, and in the method of cross-bracing against the elevator core. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Glass Skyscraper Project (no intended site known), c.1922. Silver gelatin print,…

model section patent presentation construction drawing DMC

In the Archive: Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo
05.02.2024

In the Archive: Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo05.02.2024

– Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo

…of narrative difference, we arrived at Mies van Der Rohe’s project for the Mansion House Square. Model pictures, striking for their toy-like and playful qualities, suggested a big contrast to…

in the archive (project)

The Changing Metropolis 1900–1930s
26.11.2013

The Changing Metropolis 1900–1930s26.11.2013

– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg

…Burnham used the roof, with its finials, elevator shaft and water tower, as a landmarking feature. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Photomontage for an office building for Stuttgart’s Hindenburgplatz,…

work on paper (series) DMC projection (axonometric isometric) topographic/cartographic commerce culture urban form public space

Tradition and Modernity, Continuity and Critique
04.03.2021

Tradition and Modernity, Continuity and Critique04.03.2021

– Rebecca Siefert

…Mies van der Rohe, Reichsbank Extension Berlin, 1933. Silver gelatin print, 110 × 153 mm. DMC 2690. The grid has served as ‘the image of an absolute beginning’, as Rosalind…

theoretical & imaginary urban form DMC

Writing Prize 2020: Architectural Apparitions
07.01.2021

Writing Prize 2020: Architectural Apparitions07.01.2021

– Anahat Chandra

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper, 1921. Photomontage, 1400 × 1000 mm. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. Some dreams are never meant to see the light of day. Like a wild…

memorial & monument drawing matter writing prize 2020 Extracts: Women Writing Architecture

Parataxis
28.12.2017

Parataxis28.12.2017

– Matthew Wells

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Hubbe House, 1934–1935. Silver photostat, 212 × 301 mm. DMC 2877.5. ‘Whatever elements that may come to hand or that are selected from the…

plan projection (axonometric isometric) publication DMC

Simplification
06.05.2011

Simplification06.05.2011

– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg

…— a skyscraper with no real weight or corners — are not just buildings represented by thin black lines and crossmarks, but buildings composed of them. Ludwig Mies van der…

elevation projection (axonometric isometric) concept & diagram theoretical & imaginary work on paper (series) sketch DMC plan section

The Iterative Power of Architecture’s Absence
07.04.2022

The Iterative Power of Architecture’s Absence07.04.2022

– Peter Sealy

…Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen – Seven Rooms (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009). From the Drawing Matter Collection: two urban insertions Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), competition entry showing urban…

competition exhibition design DMC theoretical & imaginary housing religion urban form

In the Archive: Petit, Lebas, Fontaine, Le Corbusier and Kolář
04.10.2022

In the Archive: Petit, Lebas, Fontaine, Le Corbusier and Kolář04.10.2022

– Raphael Haque

…1052.2.21), Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (DMC 1853) and Jiří Kolář (DMC 1489r). Lebas’ nineteenth century studies of Rome, contained in an eighty-three-page…

DMC in the archive (project)

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