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Mies van der RoheLatest Stories

“God Would See It!”

Sixty-five years after the completion of the Seagram Building, Phyllis Lambert talks about Mies van der Rohe and the commission

A Redacted History

A Swarthmore College exhibition personifies the concealed life of Edith Farnsworth

a mountainous collage installed on a mies van er rohe building
Mountains Mies, Mountains

Chicago artist Assaf Evron dresses up Crown Hall with an installation inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s collages

On the Move

Daily digest: Flood-ravaged Seoul wants to eliminate its subterranean housing stock, pickleball comes to the Seagram Building, and more

a boxy, glass-encased mies van der-rohe building pictured at night
Miesian Revival

A Mies van der Rohe-designed hall opens at Indiana University 70 years after the project was shelved

The edith farnsworth house, two white slabs sandwiching a glass room
What's In A Name?

The Farnsworth House is renamed to honor Edith Farnsworth

A long squat mies van der rohe building under construction
Better Late Than Never

Thomas Phifer and Partners revives an unbuilt Mies van der Rohe project in Indiana

a cyclist passes a glass and steel museum building
A Mies-ticulous Undertaking

Chipperfield Architects completes careful renovation of Mies’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin

a modernist building with slim lines, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
Pushing Past Mies

Mecanoo’s renovation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library works through the nuances of the Mies’s signature style

exterior of a modernist museum in berlin, the Neu Nationalgalerie
Mending a Mies Masterpiece

Chipperfield Architects’ refresh of the Neue Nationalgalerie nearing completion in Berlin

Ground floor entrance to Kacek hall, a modernist tower
Back in Action

Dirk Denison Architects renovates a Mies-designed dorm tower for the Illinois Institute of Technology

Rendering of a building with a glass-clad rectangular level floating over a partially enclosed plaza
In Brief

Eskenazi School at Indiana University kicks off work on a Mies-inspired building

photo of the Farnsworth House plano illinois exterior
Pieces of Edith

The Farnsworth House gets period decor in an effort to shine light on its mysterious owner

a modernist office building in kanas city
Tearing down a Mies-terpiece

Demolition work begins on NRHP-listed modernist building in Kansas City

The Farnsworth House in Illinois surrounded by floodwaters
Rain, Rain Go Away

The Farnsworth House is (once again) besieged by floodwaters

A green house-like piece of furniture in front of a pink curtain
Messing with Mies

Could Be Architecture’s new installation riffs on Mies’s iconic McCormick House

Rendering of low-hanging white steel and glass building with long windows
Forgotten Modernism

A little-known Mies van der Rohe design will be built at Indiana University

The Farnsworth House projected in black-and-white stripes at night
Laser Mies at the Planetarium

The Farnsworth House will get an x-ray makeover for the Chicago Architecture Biennial

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