January 2020

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is one of the most well known architects of the 20th century to be shaped by and to shape the Modernist tradition. Through the Deutscher Werkbund, Mies met and worked with other young architects who would become famous Modernists: Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier. This generation of young German designers was deeply influenced by the collapse of the old European order at the end of World War I and developed a style that rejected all the old truisms of architecture in favor of a radically…