In concert with the endeavour to bring more art to the social medias especially your Facebook feed I have chosen to turn the limelight towards Architects. Today’s featured architect is Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Mies (as he was often called) was famous for bringing simplicity to the world of architecture and the expressions “Less is more” as well as “God is in the details”.
He was an American architect born in 1886 Germanny he died in 1969 in the US. The Toronto-Dominion Centre yes in Toronto to me best embodies his style that of the exposed I beam skelton. I’ve always thought Place de Ville at Kent and Albert was of his style though not from him.
I saw so much of his work in Chicago – including S.R. Crown Hall. The city he choose to call home for the second half of this life. A city whose architectural treasures are many.
And of course most architects also have a celebrated chair attached to their name and in this case we have the Barcelona chair – which also has an ottoman and a bench but the chair is the piece that reached the highest iconic status.
[…] After his graduation in 1947 he worked with his father Dominikus Böhm. He was most inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. Son, grandson, husband, and father of architects, Gottfried Böhm has reason […]