40 years ago, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe passed away

Chicago (USA)/Prague - In Chicago, where he lived for many years, on August 17, 1969, at the age of 83, the renowned architect and one of the most significant representatives of functionalism Ludwig Mies van der Rohe passed away. He came from the German city of Aachen from a stonemason family and worked as a construction worker from the age of 15.
    He actually learned architecture only by staying in the studios of leading architects. He initially spent time with Bruno Paul, later working with Peter Behrens. In 1913 he became independent, and after the rise of fascism, he emigrated in 1937 and just the following year became the head of the Department of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
    While he was initially still influenced by classicism, in the 1920s he leaned towards the methods of the De Stijl group and functionalism. Among his most famous buildings are, for example, the residential block in the Weissenhof estate near Stuttgart, the German Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Barcelona, the New National Gallery in Berlin, the building of the Faculty of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, or the Seagram Building in New York. A prime example of his architectural art in the Czech Republic is the Tugendhat villa in Brno, which was included as the eleventh Czech monument on the UNESCO World Heritage List in December 2001.
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