Mies Van Der Rohe

From Mad Men to Mies: Why Modernism Holds Sway

2012-02-16-archdailyreal.jpg | Posted 03.30.2012

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By Vanessa Quirk (click here for original article) © Megan Jett It’s June 1966. Mies’ iconic Seagram Building dominates New York City....

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Celebrating 126 Years Of Mies Van Der Rohe

Posted 03.29.2012

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By Megan Jett (click here for original article) ...

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New Google Doodle

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 03.27.2012

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The clean-lined, structural doodle decorating Google's homepage on March 27 was created to celebrate the 126th birthday of famous modern architect Lud...

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PHOTOS: Mies Van Der Rohe Around The World

Posted 03.27.2012

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Mies Van Der Rohe is the talk of the internet this Tuesday thanks to a Google doodle celebrating his 126th birthday, architectural accomplishments and...

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Happy Birthday, Mies van der Rohe!

Posted 03.27.2012

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Happy birthday to one of the principal shapers of our modern world, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Along with other post-World War I architects, such a...

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Mies Van Der Rohe's Tugendhat To Open Again

AP | By KAREL JANICEK | Posted 01.31.2012

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BRNO, Czech Republic -- It was completed in 1930, a Modernist masterpiece by legendary German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. But Villa Tugendhat...

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PHOTOS: Architecture For The City Bird

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 12.29.2011

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Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

Architect to the urban aviary set, Street Artist XAM is one rare bird. Averaging one per week over the last year, the California born former graffiti ...

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On the Waterfront

J. Michael Welton | Posted 11.11.2011

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J. Michael Welton

It took nine months before Michael McCarthy and Marcia Myers fully realized what they'd actually purchased in Harbor Springs, Michigan. "We saw this w...

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PHOTOS: 10 Icons Of Modern Architecture

Tom Mallory | Posted 09.05.2011

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Tom Mallory

A few weeks ago ICOMOS' recommendation against the registering of 19 buildings designed by Le Corbusier in the World Heritage List provoked heated dis...

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The 5 Greatest Architects Under 50

Ninan Kurien | Posted 08.29.2011

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Ninan Kurien

Historically architecture as a profession has bestowed recognition on its participants mostly in a later stage of their careers and in many cases they...

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Top 10 Computer-Designed Buildings

Adel Zakout | Posted 02.27.2012

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Adel Zakout

The advent of the industrial revolution, mass production and large-scale manufacturing industries during the last two centuries has had a revolutionar...

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The Human Stain on "Sustainism"

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael DeJong

In its infancy, our little blue orb was a perfect place serenaded by little more than the swoosh of winds and the ebb of ocean tides. Enter humans.

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"Haven't You Ever Been to the Four Seasons?": Fall Fun at NY's Most Famous Eatery

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Henry Adams

What have acclaimed architect Bob Stern and the most stupendous, sexy shoes imaginable, in common? Why, nothing at all, except for the Four Seasons Re...

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I Got Seven Million Dollars, Don't You Mess With Me

Rebecca Sive | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rebecca Sive

Rahm: How about gathering together the best South Side minds in town and figuring out with them how to spend that seven million dollars you're about to deposit in your checkbook.

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PHOTOS: Condo On Sale In Mies Van Der Rohe Masterpiece

Posted 05.25.2011

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They're some of the most striking, and most divisive, pieces of architecture on Chicago's lakefront. They're designed by one of the most influential a...

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PHOTOS: Chicago Mag Names Best Buildings In Chicago

Posted 05.25.2011

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For months, Chicago magazine has been running "Top 40" lists to celebrate their 40th anniversary and highlight the best Chicago films, music, art and ...

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City Shaping, Change and Continuity

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charles A. Birnbaum

While Detroit is contemplating a shrinking of that city through wholesale demolition of historic neighborhoods, Louisville, Kentucky has opted for a very different approach.

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PHOTOS: Home Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright Protege Listed For $1.78 Million In The Springs

Posted 05.25.2011

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Colorado Springs may not be known for its architecture, but at least one home on the market in the Springs will turn the heads of even the snobbiest a...

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First Nighter: Important "Red" Alert on Broadway

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Olivier Awards, Mies Van Der Rohe, Martin Scorsese, Bernjamin Britten, The Habit of Art, The Aviator, Alan Corduner, Mark Rothko, Alan Bennett, Eddie Redmayne, Richard Nutbourne, John Logan, Simon Schama, Neil Austin, The Power of Art, Sweeney Todd, The Four Seasons Restaurant, Christopher Oram, Lee Hall, Alfred Molina, W. H. Auden, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aeschylus, Red, Golden Theatre, The Pitman Painters, Philip Johnson, 222 Bowery Studio, Christoph Gluck, Seagram Building, Michael Grandage, Arthur Schopenhauer, Alceste, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Red insists that art matters; so does Red matter in all its dark, dramatic hues.

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Chicago Tears Down a Mies

Edward Lifson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Edward Lifson

This week, powers that be in Chicago will demolish a little work by Mies van der Rohe. A small part of his extraordinarily important campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology will bite the dust.

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Life as General Director of Chicago Opera Theater ...

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brian Dickie

... And there are days when it would be good to illustrate the varied stuff I have the pleasure of dealing with, enjoying, or whatever ... I had a go...

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In Search of a Fourth Urbanism Part 3; Wherein I Name One

Frank Gruber | Posted 11.17.2011

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Frank Gruber

I wrote about three places where I have seen Cityism occurring -- Vancouver, Barcelona, and my own city of Santa Monica -- but there are many other cities where Cityism is taking place.

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Tribune Architecture Critic Breaks With Preservationists: Threatened Mies IIT Building 'Utterly Dispensable'

Chicago Tribune | Blair Kamin | Posted 05.25.2011

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You'd never suspect that a great architect shaped the clunky brick box at the corner of 35th and Federal Streets. But the master of the steel-and-glas...

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Going, Going, Gone? Will Chicago Tear Down Buildings by Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius?

Edward Lifson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Edward Lifson

The best way to promote sustainable, environmentally responsible architecture is to adaptively reuse buildings where possible. The Michael Reese campus is the perfect place.

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Mosques, Moolah, and the Importance of Tradition

Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Victoria Lautman

El-Wakil is considered one of the most prominent proponents of contemporary Islamic architecture, making him a stimulating choice for the Driehaus Prize, which has thus far gone only to Western architects.

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