Posted March 27, 2012 by Rogers Healy

Happy Birthday Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the principal shapers of our modern world, would have been 126 years old today.

Mies, like many other post-World War I architects, such as Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, van der Rohe sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras.  

He created an influential twentieth century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. The bare framework and open floor plan that van der Rohe frequently employed came to be known as "skin and bones" architecture.  He never employed even the slightest detail if it wasn't necessary to the overall feel of the space.

Even though van der Rohe created iconic designs as the Seagram building in New York and the Farnsworth House in Illinois, it was his ideas that were his greatest contribution to society.  In 1959 he famously told the New York Herald Tribune, "Less is more." With those simple words, van der Rohe's ethos would not just influence architecture and modern living, but fashion, cinema and the culinary world, sparking a newfound love of functionality throughout the world.

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