LudwigMiesvanderRohe-CCRI.ppt

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe1886-1969 “Architecture begins when you carefully put two bricks together” Ludwig Mies was born in 1886 on March 27. He was born in Aachen, in the Nordhein Westfalen region of Germany, on the border of Belgium. This city was best known as the permanent residence of Charlemagne beginning in 786 Ludwig began his building career working with his father who was a master stonemason. At the same time, he attended the trade school in Aachen although he never graduated. At 19 he left Aachen and moved to Berlin. After brief military service he began an intern for designer Bruno Paul in 1906 Self portrait of Bruno Paul After one year with Paul, in 1906 Mies received his first independent commission to design the house of philosophy professor Alois Riehl After its completion in 1907 Ludwig spent one more year with Bruno Paul until 1908 when he began work at the offices of famed German architect Peter Behrens. At his offices, Mies worked with the likes of other famed architects Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius founder of the Bauhaus movement . Here he also begin to develop his early sense of style which was a cross of advanced structuralism and Prussian classicism A student of Art Nouveau or Jugendstil movement, Behrens believed in a melding of the arts and architecture to create building After only 4 years in his service Mies left Behrens in 1912 to start his own office. He immediately received work and designed a series of home in the style of famed Prussian architect Karl Schinkel. The following year, Mies married schoolteacher Ada Bruhn to whom he had been introduced by the Riehl’s Ludwig Mies, now Mies van der Rohe continued work through the twenties and became increasingly involved with artistic movements of the time in Berlin such as the Novembergruppe and Zehner Ring. With a new name came also a new sense of style. His phrase “less is more “ began to be seen in his work as seen in his entry to a German skyscraper competition. The building