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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
Name
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Personal Information
Birth/Death: b. 27 March 1886 – d. 17 August 1969
Occupation: German architect, American architect
Location: Chicago, IL
AIA Affiliation
Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1941-decease
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) 1954
Recipient of the AIA Gold Medal 1960
Biographical Sources
American Architects Directories:
Biographical listing in 1956 American Architects Directory
Biographical listing in 1962 American Architects Directory
Biographical Directories:
Entry in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (New York: Macmillan, 1982)
Entry in Richard Guy Wilson, The AIA Gold Medal (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984)
Related Records
Archival Holdings
The American Institute of Architects Archives
Membership file includes membership application, Fellowship nomination with letters of support, correspondence about his death. His Gold Medal file includes correspondence about nomination and about arrangements, press release, text of certificate and speech, photos.
Museum of Modern Art, Lily Auchincloss Study Center for Architecture and Design
Mies van der Rohe Archive. For more information, see http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/departments/architecture_design
Getty Research Institute, Research Library
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe preliminary sketches for Hubbe House, ca. 1935, Accession no. 860203
Elevations, perspectives, plans and grids for the Hubbe House designed for Magdeburg, Germany, but not built. Also available for comparison are photographs of forty-seven related sketches exhibited at the Protetch Gallery, N.Y.C. For further information, see catalog record
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe manuscript fragment and letter, 1962 Nov.30, Accession no. 890222
A fragment of an undated manuscript (2 pp.) with notes on the subject of architectural theory, design and aesthetics; and a letter from the architect's office (1962 Nov. 30) to Karl Geyer accompanying a manuscript by Mies van der Rohe. For further information, see catalog record
Avery Library, Drawings and Archives Collection, Columbia University
For more information https://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery/da.html.