van der Rohe
Americannoun
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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
For a while they talk about the projects they are working on, the architects they both admire: Gropius, van der Rohe, Saarinen.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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