Chicago interior architect Robert Kleinschmidt will guide a tour, sharing his designs for the domestic interior and his history with other projects by
Mies van der Rohe.
"After the challenges of Housing and Heritage in Europe highlighted by the 2017 Jury and Winners and the exciting debates that have taken place during these two years, the new cycle of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture --
Mies van der Rohe Award will reflect on the next challenges of architecture, which architects, clients, policy makers and other professionals are faced with."
--The characteristics of the architects, usually the age (ACE 2012;
Mies van der Rohe fund 2012).
Invisible surface: reflections in
Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion.
Last month, the European Commission and the Fundacio Mics van der Rohe announced the live finalists of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
Mies van der Rohe Award 2009.
Wabash was designed by world-renowned architect Ludwig
Mies van der Rohe and was designated a Chicago landmark in February, 2008.
When the Armour and Lewis Institutes of Chicago merged in 1940 to form the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), the director of architecture, Ludwig
Mies van der Rohe, was asked to develop plans and design the buildings for the newly expanded 120-acre campus.
Among the key Modernist figures featured are artists Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Alexander Rodchenko, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Charles Sheeler, and Stuart Davis; architects and designers Ludwig
Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius and Richard Neutra, Marcel Breuer, Gerrit Rietveld, Marianne Brandt and Alvar Aalto.