Ludwig Crumbs van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born the March 27th 1886 with Aachen, deceased the August 17th 1969 with Chicago) is a German Architecte .

Its true name is Ludwig Mies. In 1921, it joins in the name of his/her father that of young girl of his mother by connecting them by an artistic “van DER” and becomes Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The plans and projects of Crumbs van der Rohe are characterized by clear forms and the intensive use of the Verre, Acier and Béton. Its work poses the bases for the construction of large buildings to the frontages of glass (the Gratte-ciel).

Life

Born in Aachen, Mies van der Rohe starts by working in the family company stone masons before entering the architectural firm of Bruno Paul to Berlin. A few years later, he works with the service of Peter Behrens of 1908 to 1912. Under the influence of this last, Mies develops an approach of design based on advanced techniques of construction and the Prussian classicism. It tests also a certain sympathy to the esthetic creeds of the Russian constructivism and of the group Dutch De Stijl. It starts to carry out its innovating drawings mixing steel and glass, borrowing certain ideas from Karl Friedrich Schinkel. It is also in the workshop of Behrens that it will become acquainted with Walter Gropius, the future founder of the Bauhaus.
De 1912 to 1914, it works as architect with Berlin then, in 1914, it has to serve under the flags because of release of the First World War.

Crumbs contributes to the magazine G which is launched in July 1923. It contributes major shares to architectural philosophies of end of the year 20 and in the Thirties as a director of the project sponsored Weissenhof by the Werkbund and as director of Bauhaus. Indeed, from 1930 to 1933, it directs the school of arts Bauhaus to Dessau and Berlin. Of 1925 to its departure for the United States, it works with its partner Lilly Reich.

In front of the rise of the Nazism in Germany, Mies flees and in 1938, he emigrates with the the United States. On his arrival, one recognizes already a certain influence to him like designer. Director of Bauhaus, it also gained many contests for various architectural projects.

Famous for its “ Less is More ” and “ Gott steckt im Detail (God is in the details) ”, Mies tries to create neutral, contemplative spaces thanks to an architecture based on the honesty of materials and the structural integrity. Its achievements testify to the interest that it brings to the inside-outside report/ratio, very extremely. External space is indeed regarded as a prolongation of interior space. Its architecture is also marked by the dissociation of the envelope and the structure. At the time of the twenty last years of its life, Mies manages to reach its vision of a fine and slim architecture. Its last achievements are the outcome of a life dedicated to the idea of a simplified universal architecture.

Crumbs settled with Chicago where it off deals with the department of Architecture Chicago' S Armor Institute Technology (famous later Illinois Institute off Technology or IIT). It accepted this post office in the condition which it can refit the campus of the university. Some of its most famous achievements are there still of which the Crown Hall (seat of the school of architecture of the IIT).

In 1958, Mies built what is regarded as the ultimate expression of the “International Style” in architecture: the Seagram Building with New York. It is a broad realization out of glass but, in a surprising way, Mies chose to include there a great place with a fountain opposite the structure, creating a space open on the Park Avenue.

Crumbs designed and carried out many buildings in Chicago and elsewhere. Some of these achievements are listed below:

Achievements

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