Mies van der Rohe

American  

[meez van der roh-uh, fahn, mees] / ˈmiz væn dər ˈroʊ ə, fɑn, ˈmis /

Also Miës van der Rohe

noun

1. Ludwig 1886–1969, U.S. architect, born in Germany.

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Mies van der Rohe British  

/ ˈmiːz væn də ˈrəʊə /

noun

1. Ludwig. 1886–1969, US architect, born in Germany. He directed the Bauhaus (1929–33) and developed a functional style, characterized by geometrical design. His works include the Seagram building, New York (1958)

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Mies van der Rohe

But greater impact, we see, was made by the German pavilion designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich using Roman travertine, green marble, onyx and glass, ushering in architecture’s International Style.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

Goff may have led the way in Oklahoma, but Gropius led Harvard, Mies van der Rohe led IIT and the list goes on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

He denigrated a planned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe skyscraper as “yet another giant glass stump, better suited to downtown Chicago than the City of London.”

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023

He was less enamored of the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose glass boxes, he told Eugenia Cook of The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1984, have “not been satisfying to the human psyche.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

Within the famous Mies van der Rohe building, I passed by the famous silk-screened faces of the famous pop artist.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides