LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

(1886-1969)

PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED TO

KAMAL BHATIA AR: CHANDRAKALA KESARWANI
B.ARCH III YEAR
DELHI TECHICAL CAMPUS,
GGSIPU
 INTRODUCTION
• Ludwig Mies van der rohe was born on March 27, 1886 in Aachen, Germany.
• Mies van der rohe was a German architect and educator, is widely acknowledged as
one of the 20th century's greatest architects.
• He had no formal training in Architecture.
• In 1908 he began working for the architect Peter Behrens.
• Despite of a formal college-level education He opened
his own office in berlin in 1912.
• Later on he succeeded Walter Gropius as Bauhaus
Director.
• Migrated to US and taught architecture at the
Illinois institute of technology.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
• Made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior
spaces.
• Simple rectangular Forms, Open,flexible plans and multi-functional spaces.
• Widespread use of glass to bring the outside in.
• By emphasizing open space and revealing the industrial materials used in
construction, he helped define modern architecture.
• He is often associated with the aphorisms "less is more“
and "God is in the details”.

Martin Luther
King Jr.
Memorial
Library

Interior of
Neue
Nationalgaleri
e museum in
Berlin,
Germany
FAMOUS WORKS
RIEHL HOUSE (1907) THE BARCELONA PAVILION
(1929)

• Located in Potsdam, Germany. • Located in Barcelona, Spain.

• The interior space pulled inspiration • Mies united advanced materials with a fluid
from English cottages and Japanese open plan, which together endowed the space
architecture with an unprecedented modern elegance
FAMOUS WORKS
The Seagram Building (1954 –
THE CROWN HALL (1950 - 1958)
1956)

• Located in Illinois Institute of

Technology, Chicago, IL, USA . • Located in new york.

• Only steel and glass in its exterior • Designed with modernist ideas with an
design emphasis on the steel frame structure,
curtain wall, and rational floor
FARNSWORTH HOUSE
1946 - 1951
• Located in Plano, IL, USA

• Its is a small small weekend retreat on the bank of fox river.

• It is one of the most famous examples of modernist domestic architecture

and was considered unprecedented in its day .

• It is composed of eight exterior

steel columns with a single room
Subdivided by partitions and
completely enclosed in glass.
 Use of large glass panels, which also brings the scenic
beauty and nature inside the house and makes it a more
natural experience.

The one-story Farnsworth house with its isolated site

allowed a degree of transparency and simplicity which
minimize the boundary between man and the
natural world.
The single-story house consists of eight I-shaped steel
columns that support the roof and floor frameworks, and
therefore are both structural and expressive.