Mies

LUDWIN MIES VAN DER ROHE

CONTENT

Life 07

1 23 Work 12

Peers 39

“It is impossible to go forward and look back, who lives in the past can not advance”

In 1905 he moved to Berlin to work in the architectural firm of Bruno Paul.

In 1907 he made his first work, the Riehl home. From 1908-1911 he worked in the office of Peter Behrens, Mies developed which architectural style based on advanced structural techniques and Prussian Classicism.

In 1913, with his wife Ada Bruhn, he moved to Werder ( just outside Berlin).

Marianne daughters were born there and Waltrani, and later Dorothy. Until then, the relationship between family and work had been good, but World War 1914-1918 caused Ludwig was destined to Romania during this period and separate quedase family.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was the son of Michael and Amalie (Rohe), fourth son of a Catholic family. In 1900 he began working in the stone sculpture workshop of his father.

In 1912 painstakingly opened his own studio in Berlin. During the first years received few commissions, but the first works already showed the way to continue throughout the rest of his career.

Artist biography

His best projects

He made innovative designs with steel and glass. In 1911 he directed the construction of the German Embassy in St. Petersburg. In that year he moved to The Hague and planned a cottage for marriage Kröller -Müller.

Contemporaries of the time

In 1922 he became a member of “Novembergruppe “ and his name Mies van der Rohe. Along with van Doesburg, Lissitzky and Richter in 1923 edited the magazine “G”.

Since its participation in G, was strongly influenced by the neo van Doesburg .In those yeas, she worked on the planes of two cottages made ​​of brick, his lines revolutionized the concept of housing.

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Style 48

Style of the epoch

“Architecture is the will of the epoch translated into space�

In 1926 he was vice president of the Deutscher Werkbund and carried out works of some importance, as the Wolf home in Guben, all brick home and Hermann Lange in Krefeld. He was director of housing exposure Weissenhof in Stuttgart in 1927, where he met and interior designer Lilly Reich.

Style

Style of the epoch

The building back then explores novel concepts of open plan and spatial continuity. The design is governed by a strict module 1.09 m.2 and is considered an archetypal example of constructive simplicity and rigor, making it one of the most famous embodiments of the highest known Mies :“less is more�.

The flag shows the influence of Neo in the work of Mies Van der Rohe, among other influences like Japanese architecture and Suprematism.

48 various surfaces ( polished marble , glass and water bodies ) , intended to convey the idea of freedom ​​ and progress of the new German republic.

The pavilion can be considered divided into 4 zones : the central ceremonial space, the administration area , and two outdoor areas : the main deck, and the south patio. The building however is famous for the merger between areas and the intentional blurring of boundaries between interior and exterior spaces.

The intention is to represent Neo all reality, expressing the unity of nature, which offers changing and capricious appearances, but , however, is an absolute regularity . Its main features are : Seek facelift . Language plastic objective and consequently universal. Exclusion of the individual and the object ( temporal limited and locally ) . It eliminates everything superfluous to prevailing only elemental , in an attempt to get to the essence.

The free play free planes , the fluidity of the spaces and visual continuity and wealth obtained through transparency of large glass panels and reflections from

Clearance forms down to their basic components: lines, planes and cubes. Fully rational approach. Structuring based on a harmony of colored lines and rectangu-

lar different proportion , always vertical, horizontal or at right angles masses.

Never resort to symmetry, although there is a distinct sense of balance achieved by compensating the shapes and colors.

Use few colors. Spot colors , saturated or pure character (primary: yellow, blue, red) or neutral tonal (white, black and gray).

Using light backgrounds.

Painting: balanced, optimistic, cheerful.

It is an artistic orientation antitrĂĄgica: art not as purgative tragic expression of inner feelings of the artist, but as a visual metaphor for spiritual harmony.

List of Works German Pavilion (Barcelona) The Barcelona Pavilion , designed by Mies van der Rohe , the building was to represent Germany at the International Exhibition held in Barcelona in 1929.

Conceived as representative space to accommodate the official reception presided over by King Alfonso XIII and the German authorities, the building was meant to symbolize one progressive and democratic character of the new Weimar Republic and its recovery after World War II. This building is one of the milestones in the history of modern architecture , being a work which is reflected particularly rotund and freedom ideas nascent modernism , and is considered by many authors as one of the four canonical parts architecture of the modern movement with the building of the Bauhaus Gropius.

The pavilion was dismantled after the exhibition in 1930, and rebuilt in the 80’s in its original location, in the present district of Montjuic, where it is open to the public.

HISTORY

The project was commissioned by the Weimar Republic in June 1928.3 It was Mies himself who chose the site of the flag of Germany within the grounds of the exhibition: although at first he had been assigned a place near the magic fountain central axis of the fairgrounds Cadalfalch - designed by the architect chose a place

a little more secluded from the hubbub of the main shaft where large buildings constructed for the occasion were.

Built no other function than merely representative , the flag intended to symbolize the ideals of progress and openness of the German state after the First World War. In the opening speech , the Reich Commissioner, Georg von Schnitzler , summarized: “ We seek above all clarity, simplicity and integrity�.

Despite the voices that called for the preservation of the building, the economic difficulties facing the German state led to the end of the exhibition hall was dismantled in January 1930.1 2 metal structure was sold right there and parts marble returned to Alemania.3 However, with the passage of time this work was

12 gaining recognition as a key reference in the history of twentieth-century architecture, so from 1954 , at the initiative of architect Oriol Bohigas began to take shape the idea of ​​reconstructing the building in its location original.

This initiative finally materialized in the 1980s . Work started in 1983 by the architects Ignasi de Solà- Morales, reconstruction, based entirely on the original design and with the same materials, was opened on 2 June 1986.

The reconstructed pavilion is managed by a foundation that enables the guided tour and venue hire for private events, including making several commercials .

The building has also hosted numerous art installations , among which are those of Antoni Muntadas , Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue, Jeff Wall,

Jérôme Schlomoff , Dominique Gonzalez- Foerster & Jens Hoffmann, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa ( SANAA) and Andrés Jaque Office for Political and Innovation.

DESIGN

In addition to its location section, also surprised the modest size of the building , even smaller than single-family housing. The flag is slightly elevated from the environment by a travertine podium dimensions 56.62 x 18.48 m, making a total area of about ​​ 1000 m2.2 The set opens onto the main axis of the exposure ( east )

“The architecture begins when two bricks are placed together.” and is permeable westward , while closing on the short sides , the north and south.

Access is not direct but occurs tangentially , with the 8 steps that form the hidden staircase access to the view from the main road

Farnswoth Hause (Ilinois) The Barcelona Pavilion , designed by Mies van der Rohe , the building was to represent Germany at the International Exhibition held in Barcelona in 1929.

Conceived as representative space to accommodate the official reception presided over by King Alfonso XIII and the German authorities, the building was meant to symbolize one progressive and democratic character of the new Weimar Republic and its recovery after World War II. This building is one of the milestones in the history of modern architecture , being a work which is reflected particularly rotund and freedom ideas nascent modernism , and is considered by many authors as one of the four canonical parts architecture of the modern movement with the building of the Bauhaus Gropius.

The pavilion was dismantled after the exhibition in 1930, and rebuilt in the 80’s in its original location, in the present district of Montjuic, where it is open to the public.

HISTORY The project was commissioned by the Weimar Republic in June 1928.3 It was Mies himself who chose the site of the flag of Germany within the grounds of the exhibition: although at first he had been assigned a place near the magic fountain

central axis of the fairgrounds Cadalfalch designed by the architect chose a place a little more secluded from the hubbub of the main shaft where large buildings constructed for the occasion were.

69 DESIGN Built no other function than merely representative , the flag intended to symbolize the ideals of progress and openness of the German state after the First World War.

In the opening speech , the Reich Commissioner, Georg von Despite the voices that called for the preservation of the building, the economic difficulties facing the German state led to the end of the exhibition hall was dismantled in January 1930.1 2 metal structure was sold right there and parts marble returned to Alemania.3 However, with the passage of time this work was gaining recognition as a key reference in the history of twentiethcentury architecture, so from 1954.

rchitects Ignasi de SolĂ - Morales, reconstruction, based entirely on the original design and with the same materials, was opened on 2 June 1986.

The reconstructed pavilion is managed by a foundation that etour and venue hire for private events.