Early Mies

Mies Van der Rohe’s early career, from 1908 until 1925, was devoted to designing  understudied and underappreciated traditional houses. Influenced by both Schinkel and Behrens, these houses in the suburbs of Berlin, already display a mastery of form and the razor sharp clarity that is so characteristic of all his great works.  You will not be surprised to learn that these buildings have been written out of most histories of 20^th century architecture.

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~ by Allan Greenberg on July 2, 2010.