Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born on 27th March 1886 and died on August 19th 1969 is a German and American architect; He was known as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture in many of his post-World War I contemporaries, where he established a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He then created an influential 20th century architectural style with clarity and simplicity and used modern materials like steel and plated glass to build his mature buildings made use to define interior spaces. He then used minimal frameworks of structural order to balance it against the implied freedom of free-flowing open space. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture. His architectural style would guide the creative process of architectural design and is known for his use of the aphorisms "less is more" and "God is in the details".
This is Ludwig Mies van der Rohe chair design called the Barcelona chair. I chose this chair because he designed the steel bars as swirly and curvy and also made the legs flat.

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