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Collection Guide: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
13.05.2025
Collection Guide: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe13.05.2025
– 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,…
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project
30.08.2022
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project30.08.2022
…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…
Mies van der Rohe: Neue Stadt
22.07.2016
Mies van der Rohe: Neue Stadt22.07.2016
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…
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
…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…
Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion (2005)
16.03.2021
Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion (2005)16.03.2021
…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…
Mies: The Horizon
14.06.2020
Mies: The Horizon14.06.2020
…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…
Mies: The Berlin Building Expostition (1974)
25.06.2020
Mies: The Berlin Building Expostition (1974)25.06.2020
…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…
Drawing London – 13 & 14 September 2025 – Exhibition Guide
13.09.2025
Drawing London – 13 & 14 September 2025 – Exhibition Guide13.09.2025
…Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Photographs for the Mansion House, 30 January 1985. Colour photographs, 300 x 405 mm. Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1:1250 scale…
Mies: The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective
24.10.2016
Mies: The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective24.10.2016
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…
Spring Open Weekend 5 & 6 April 2024 – Drawing Clusters
02.04.2025
Spring Open Weekend 5 & 6 April 2024 – Drawing Clusters02.04.2025
…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 model of…
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
…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…
On Collage — Exhibition Guide
08.02.2026
On Collage — Exhibition Guide08.02.2026
…Matter Collection (identifiable from the white labels on the sleeves) Copper plan chest 1077 Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, competition project for Alexanderplatz, 1928. 1088 Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe,…
Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam
24.01.2022
Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam24.01.2022
…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…
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…
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…
Buffington & Mies: Skyscrapers on Paper
31.01.2025
Buffington & Mies: Skyscrapers on Paper31.01.2025
…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,…
In the Archive: Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo
05.02.2024
In the Archive: Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo05.02.2024
…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…
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,…
Tradition and Modernity, Continuity and Critique
04.03.2021
Tradition and Modernity, Continuity and Critique04.03.2021
…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…
Writing Prize 2020: Architectural Apparitions
07.01.2021
Writing Prize 2020: Architectural Apparitions07.01.2021
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…
Arrows
19.01.2026
Arrows19.01.2026
…contrary, in the projects of the Futurists, in the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe or Le Corbusier, and in the writings of De Stijl, movement is omnipresent. Absent,…
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…
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