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Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, a study of his work
Title: Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, a study of his work
Category: Arts & Humanities / Artists
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Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, a study of his work
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohen was born in Aachen, Germany, in 1886, and lived all the way through to 1969. He was considered a pioneer of glass skyscrapers. He also liked to design tubular-steel furniture, like his famous "Barcelona chair", used in the Barcelona Pavilion, another of his great works. He became a professor of architecture in Chicago, where he designed two glass apartment towers on Lake Shore Drive, around 1956.
His greatest work is considered to be …showed first 75 words of 669 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 669 total…Speech upon receiving the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects,] Journal of the AmericanArchitects 33" (June 1965): 90-91, found in the internet)
"We are not at the end, but at the beginning of an epoch; an epoch which will be guided by a new spirit, which will be driven by new forces, new technological, sociological and economic forces, and which will have new tools and new materials. For this reason we will have a new architecture."
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