Mies van der Rohe

Knoll Reissues Mies van der Rohe’s Tugendhat Chair

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:04:44 -0400

The nearly 100-year-old design, created for a house in the Czech Republic, had been out of production since 1979.

In Chicago, Dirk Denison Renovates Mies-Designed Dorms at IIT

jim@jamesgauer.com (James Gauer) — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

At IIT in Chicago, three dorms by Mies van der Rohe that sat vacant for years were completely gutted and rebuilt.

Mies’s Barcelona Pavilion Reinterpreted in Carbon-Saving Wood

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

As an exercise in analyzing carbon costs, the modernist masterpiece has been replicated in timber sourced from Galician forests.

Mecanoo and OTJ Architects Transform a Mies van der Rohe Library in Washington, D.C.

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:04:00 -0400

Preserving the best of Mies, the collaborating Dutch and American firms have revived this '70s masterpiece for 21^st century users.

Mies van der Rohe Redux: The Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design by Thomas Phifer and Partners

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:00:00 -0500

A 70-year-old unbuilt design by Mies van der Rohe is realized by Thomas Phifer and Partners in Indiana.

Unbuilt Project by Mies van der Rohe Is Under Construction in Indiana

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 14:00:00 -0400

An unrealized building designed by Mies van der Rohe is soon to be completed at Indiana University.

Review of 'Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology'

Thu, 06 May 2021 00:00:00 -0400

This critical assessment of Mies van der Rohe's Modernist icon demolishes much of the building's mythology.

David Chipperfield Architects Completes Extensive Renovation of Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:00:00 -0400

The British firm has completed the restoration of Mies van der Rohe's last major work, completed in 1968 and under construction since 2016.

A Second Look at Edith Farnsworth and Her Mies van der Rohe–Designed Retreat

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:52:00 -0400

A multi-part exhibition unfolding across some 60 acres in Plano, Illinois, focuses on one of the most famous Modern architecture clients in history.

New Views into an Unheralded Element of Mies

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:00:00 -0400

A new exhibition at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Illinois explores a little-studied corner of Mies van der Rohe’s career: his brief fascination with pre-fabrication.

Film Review: A Legacy of Mies and King

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:00:00 -0500

A new documentary tracks the work and preparation done to modernize Washington, D.C.’s central library.

Treacherous Transparencies: Thoughts and Observations Triggered by a Visit to Farnsworth House

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 08:00:00 -0400

In 2014, after accepting the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron drove from Chicago to Plano, Illinois, to visit Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, completed in 1951.

Goodbye to All That: The Four Seasons Restaurant Leaves the Seagram Building

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:00:00 -0400

The Four Seasons Restaurant, designed by Philip Johnson in 1959, leaves the Seagram Building with only memories intact.

More Elegance at the House of Seagram: The Four Seasons Restaurant

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0400

Big, splendid and very expensive (mere art lovers may buy a drink at the bar), the new restaurant in the Seagram building is called The Four Seasons.

Scholars Debate the Fate of a Lost Mies Masterwork

Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:00:00 -0400

“It is much better to be good than to be original,” Ludwig Mies van der Rohe famously advised his protégé Philip Johnson.