The Excellent Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Established The Modern Design Of The 20th Century
Born on the 27th of March 1886 in the place of Aachen, Germany, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is an architect, interior designer and a top enthusiast of the Modern Movement in architecture and furniture creations. He is usually recognized today for his modernist “skin and bones” architecture as well as for the various modern furniture designs he completed for his buildings.
Alike most of his contemporaries during that time, Mies van der Rohe (whose true name is Maria Ludwig Mies) begun as an architect prior to branching out to furniture creations. Losing some formal college education, van der Rohe traveled to Berlin in 1908 and worked as a beginner to the renowned German architect Peter Behrens. It was during his visit at Behrens that Mies van der Rohe knew the current design theories of the time and met fellow modernist architects Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius. After finishing his apprenticeship, Mies van der Rohe worked shortly as a construction manager before doing his own professional practice as an architect. Few of the plans he designed that are still standing now include the Lafayette Park in the United States and the Bacardi office building in Mexico.
Mies van der Rohe began creating furniture as a way to complement his architectural plans. Two brilliant examples of which composed the finest Barcelona Chair of the German Pavilion in Barcelona, Spain and the Tugendhat Chair of the Villa Tugendhat in the Czech Republic. Van der Rohe’s furniture style are distinctive for their day for including the light, minimalist features of modern architecture as well as its initation of both usual and modern elements. Mies van der Rohe was also to have sought help from his longtime associates, the German interior designer Lilly Reich, whiledoing his designs.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe died on August 17, 1969 and lies at the Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, USA.
