Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

When you Google something today, you’ll see a line drawing of Crown Hall.  Bravo, Google! Crown Hall is the Architecture building at the Illinois Institute of Technology, designed in the mid 1950’s by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was born on this day in 1886.  The building often houses architecture exhibits and art events.  [...]

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Less Is More, Less Is a Bore, Mess Is More

In his biography of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Franz Schulze says that the reason Mies said “Less is more” is that he didn’t speak English very well.  That sounds like a joke.  It’s true, Mies learned English in middle age.  But Schulze may have come up with the quip out of irritation at how [...]

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