Mies van der Rohe nominees revealed

Caruso St John’s Nottingham Contemporary is among scores of projects nominated for this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Other nominees for the €60,000 Mies van der Rohe prize and €20,000 runner-up special mention...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) has long been considered one of the most important architects of the 20th century, and his significance to the field of modern architecture is beyond dispute. In Europe, before World War II, Mies emerged as one of the most...
Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe

Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe

he Farnsworth House is one of the most significant of Mies van der Rohe’s works, equal in importance to such canonical monuments as the Barcelona Pavilion, built for the 1929 International Exposition and the 1954-58 Seagram Building in New York. Its significance is...

A Mies Masterwork, Deteriorating and in Dispute

FROM the outside, the Tugendhat House doesn’t look like one of the most important residential buildings of the 20th century: it’s just two white stucco cubes separated by an opening through which a few spiky treetops protrude. But as a tour guide led a group of 10...