The timing for the celebration and reappraisal of Mies's work could not be better.
In standards, as Mies Van Der Rohe said about modern architecture, less is more.
Their in-situ bathroom suites feature curtains, paintings, vintage lighting and Mies van der Rohe chairs.
"People who move into the Mies buildings aren't looking for glitz, " says Gail Missner with Coldwell Banker.
Something that hasn't changed since Mies' day: So much glass creates an unusually high heating and cooling load.
To see its real design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, just look down the block between 52nd and 53rd Streets.
In fact, the headquarters of our last campaign was in a building based on a design by Mies van der Rohe.
Mies is bound up both with the preservation effort and with a competition that aptly reflects his immense influence on the city.
Americans didn't need to concern themselves with the architectural intricacies separating Gropius the polemicist from Mies the poet, let alone Le Corbusier the theoretician.
We use Power Ball technology to pick a potential Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Jonas Salk, Mies van der Rohe or Igor Sikorsky (all immigrants).
As Philip Johnson designed his glass home, Mies van der Rohe was contemporaneously at work on his glass-walled Farnsworth House, situated outside Chicago.
The designs draw upon the work and aesthetic principles of the famed architect who was a contemporary of Mies Van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.
Mies left us a series of 20th-century masterpieces, a revolution in the building art and a sea of imitators' glass boxes that remain conspicuously unloved.
The metal and leather headphones have a timeless look, like a piece of high-end furniture designed by Le Corbusier or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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In his most famous structure, the 1958 Seagram building (for which the ever-industrious Philip Johnson did the interior spaces), Mies' lyricism is given epic form.
Like all great works of architecture, Mies's buildings elevate human experience.
That Brno house changed my understanding of Mies and architecture forever.
At times it seemed that Mies's influence would fade into sepia.
And in 1995 a famous interior by Mies was summarily demolished.
Mies considered the coining of Bauhaus to be Gropius' greatest achievement.
He furnished the house with icons such as the original black glass table Mies made for the German Pavilion of the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain.
Helmed by chef Mark McEwan, the Bymark serves important people important food in a financial district outfitted with grand facades by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and I.
What came to be known as the "Bauhaus diaspora" can readily be seen in New York City, where Mies designed the Seagram building and Breuer the Whitney Museum.
L. Mencken, movie director Mike Nichols, New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs, pharmaceutical entrepreneur Charles Pfizer, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, slugger Babe Ruth, cartoonist Charles M.
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There's no curator to tell him that his collections don't fit in with Mies' minimalist style, and he doesn't have to contend with picky nonprofit rules on private use.
Designed by Los Angeles-based architect Linda Taalman of Taalman Koch Architecture, the home reminded him of Berlin's New National Gallery, which was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
The undying image of dissent was Stanley Tigerman's wickedly revisionist collage of Mies van der Rohe's iconic modernist Crown Hall upended as it slides down into the ocean to a watery grave.
Mies's large drawings of his crystalline visions of faceted and curved glass skyscrapers of 1921 and 1922 were quickly followed by studies for brick and concrete country houses, prescient and perfect in their assured abstraction.
Lambert, the architect daughter of the Seagram Co. founder Samuel Bronfman, was responsible, with Philip Johnson, for Mies's only commission in New York, the 1958 Seagram Building on Park Avenue, still the city's finest modernist building.
Take a look at what happened in Chicago to the 50-year-old twin steel-frame apartment towers designed by none other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , one of the most famous architects of the 20th century.
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