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van der Rohe

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[van der roh-uh, fahn] / væn dər ˈroʊ ə, fɑn /

noun

  1. Ludwig Mies Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.


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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

Dominated by Modernists like Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, that convention focused on industrial materials, clean lines and a singular approach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

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

Fans of modernist architecture might want to make a pilgrimage to Nuns’ Island to see a gas station designed by architectural master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2022

The fair awakened America to beauty and as such was a necessary passage that laid the foundation for men like Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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