Mies van der Rohe, was born in Aquisgran – A city of what was the kingdom of Prussia, today Germany – but in the thirties, being a prolific architect, he had to leave his position as director of the Bauhaus, the famous School of Seed Architecture of great designers of the twentieth century.
It was just in that decade that Nazism came to power in Germany. With his rise, the hope of continuing the country's architectural modernization was paralyzed.
Mies van der Rohe had to emigrate to the United Statescountry where he was invited to direct the School of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Since the security provided by the Academy, it promoted its own new architectural style that has managed to transcend its death in 1969.
Next, we present several of the most representative works of those who would become one of the great masters of their time with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier.
Wolf House (1927)
Although in 1923 and in 1924, Ludwing Mies Van Der Rohe had already done some rehearsals with a concrete house and a brick house, it went to the construction of the Wolf house in Guben, Germany, when the architect achieves its first modern housing in which it gets several flat lines of straight lines. The two -story house, owned by a textile manufacturer, was located at the top of a hilleven so, the land properties allowed him to implement the fluidity of interior spaces by releasing the movement between rooms. Unfortunately, the house was collapsed in 1945.
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Germany Pavilion. Barcelona International Exhibition (1929)
Maybe it's his most recognized work. For many, in addition to being the German architect's masterpiece, it is one of the most influential in the twentieth century. It was a composition of magnificent simplicity that housed the building of the German representation in the International Exhibition of Barcelona. The building, smaller than a single -family house, Explore the concepts of the free plant and the continuity of the spaces. It is one of the four milestones of modern architecture next to the Bauhaus building, the Savoye Villa de Le Corbusier and the House of the Lloyd Wright waterfall.