LOOK up—and anywhere in the U.S. the building, if it is relatively new, and certainly if it is of steel, will bear traces of Mies van der Rohe. In a time of confusion, he was a purist. In an era of ...

A modest red brick house at Oberseestr. 60 in Lichtenberg was the last project of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe before the architect emigrated to the United States in 1937. The house was built in the early ...

The revitalization of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., is the crowning achievement of the two-decades-long effort to overhaul the district’s 26 public library branches, ...

Explore What is This? exhibition at Palau Victòria Eugènia, Barcelona, showcasing architectural archives from May 11 to July 5, 2026.

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of Ludwig Mies van der ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a giant of 20th century architecture whose hard-edged modern buildings dot the map of Chicago, lived in a building that was definitely not miesian. From 1940, three years ...

The European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced that a total of 40 built works, all of them resounding examples of “how architects continue to undertake the endeavors to design ...

What makes a purchase “worth it”? The answer is different for everybody, so we’re asking some of the coolest, most shopping-savvy people we know—from small-business owners to designers, artists, and ...

A condo unit belonging to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the famed 20th century architect, is coming to market this April. Van der Rohe lived in the building, which isn’t in the modernist style he would ...