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With the help of contemporary technological and material developments, he sought a strippeddown purity to architecture, showcased by the likes of the seagram building and farnsworth house. Along with alvar aalto, le corbusier, walter gropius and frank lloyd wright, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture mies was the last director of the. He was active in germany, from 1908 to 1938, when he moved to usa and where he was until his death. By emphasizing open space and revealing the industrial materials used in construction, he helped define modern architecture. Download as ppt, pdf, txt or read online from scribd. As a leading modernist architect and furniture designer, mies elevated industrialage materials to an art form. March 27, 1886 august 17, 1969 was a germanamerican architect. His steelframed buildings with largescale glazing, like the seagram building. Beginning and ending in berlin, from the pre1914 houses for the intelligentsia to the final masterpiece of 1968, the neue nationalgalerie, this essay records the stages of a distinguished career from the bauhaus to chicago, detroit, montreal and to new york, with the famous seagram. It was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught.

He received his first commission to design a house for the. He was also considerate a master of the modern movement, since the 50s, and he was one of the fathers of this movement with walter gropius, le. The everlasting human utopia of reaching the sky with buildings started to. It is easy to tell that the collages are mies work at a glance. This version by warner blaser has a better quality layout, at a higher price and larger format but keeps the contents to the essence. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Subsequently, in 1930, he created the brno and mr collections for the tugendhat house in brno, czechoslovakia.