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107.3 cm). Modelmakers: Bonfilio, Paul with Kaplan.Edith Randel and Lenon The Museum o paint, wood, metal, plastic, plexiglass,pap sand, IMAGE 24: Jon Miller.Jon Blessing Hedrich © IMAGE 20: graphite on tracingon paper,graphite 13 x 25" (33 x 63.5 cm). Dr IMAGE 22: addition of watercolor: Rohe. van der Mies Mies Archive, Rohe van der of The Museum Modern Art,York. New Gift of the architect, 1966. © HOUSE FIVE: The —FarnsworthHOUSE FIVE: . 1946–51 House, Plano, (American, Rohe van der Mies Ludwig born . 1886–1969)

HOUSES 22 HOUSES 23 Women and the Making of and the Making Women steel. Designed the by azine presented the fol- azine presented mag , no. 11 (1958); repr. Neumeyer, Fritz enameled (April 1953);(April repr. Friedman, . looked did you think when you first What ouse Beautiful es H Baukunst und Werkform Baukunst und or man since he descended from the tree and the tree from he descended man since or House BeautifulHouse , trans. (Cambridge: Jarzombek Mark Press, MIT 1991), 235. me f ho f o it to other houses you have seen in your neighborhood? e e 9 p y oduced, its elaborate parts to due not be mass-produced it could r le t ab v st int three or four pieces of pieces four or three arbitrary along placed lines; pre-ordained (1998), 141. o, its own life. shall disrupt have it with not to of beware must the color We our ok; o t lo hair was fir ” no dogs, that might facilities—nothing human disturb kitchen meager extremely e, 10 red a cave.red in the winter, and freeze burn in the summer up You because nothing ur n, e e lean at arnsworth House, than if significance profound it gains a more the out- viewed from ou from the sun;ou from of minimum the bare spoil the gadgetsso as not to and possessions nt c oom for only a few books and one painting at precise and permanent points; books painting a few and one at precise only oom for no chil- Christian Norberg-Schulz, “A Talk with Rohe.” van der Mies Christian Norberg-Schulz, Talk “A at it? How would you compar Describe the rooms in these pictures.Describe the rooms of the Now that you have seen photographs House,Farnsworth to do you suppose it would be like What what do you think of it? live here? Describe the house that you see in these pictur N house, fittings. interior and bring nature, to should attempt we Yet houses, and human a higher into unity.beings together If view glass the through nature walls you of the F side. When construction completed, was When Dr. in a bit- became involved Farnsworth and Mies and Dr. Mies between The dispute coverage, press much Farnsworth received in part all-glass cube touted of The much Does it work? is per- Style International haps the most unli e “pure” with the interfere must form of shade to roofs rectangles—no their overhanging y “ r dr the architect’s composition. the architect’s Elizabeth Gordon,America.” “The the Next to Threat ime the c reactions.ive example, For a 1953 article in 10. Art on the Building der van Rohe Mies Word: Artless The • 9. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS • Mies provided this explanation for the house’s unusual design: unusual the house’s for this explanation provided Mies architect , van der Mies Ludwig architect as a one-story was conceived the home.weekend Dr. design the to Rohe van der Mies Farnsworth commissioned Farnsworth House, home, second her friends. mutual by introduced they were after She left all of the architect, to the decisions design allowing the house as if him to intended it were himself.for of mainly as consisting the interior envisioned Mies and living a large area smaller areas,other with the kitchen, bathrooms, two the positioned to close and a ofcenter the main living space. exterior, an opaque not have the house did Since the only curtains. the draw privacy was to any create to way the interior. over feud public ter Although Dr. exist- in using her Farnsworth was interested the house, for ing furniture it with decorating on insisted his own designs. Mies Dr. When Farnsworth sold the house, with furniture Mies furnished owner it exclusively the second 21).(see Image One of 25), (see Image Chair was Mies’s the pieces originally in Barcelona. Exposition at the 1929 International designed the German Pavilion for the At t base. steel and complex because of of appearance the unusual the house, and nega- attracted which both positive t lowing view: ABOUT THE FARNSWORTH HOUSE FARNSWORTH ABOUT THE of twenty acres and 1951 on 1946 between was built The House Farnsworth adjacent land suburb of the in River the Fox to Plano, Illinois.Farnsworth, owner, first and client the Dr. after Named time at the because the exte- was unusual this house Edith rior primarily was made of sheets large of glass and white the Modern House .Ask which conse- which , House BeautifulHouse odern Architecture: International Exhibition odernArchitecture: M esigns is the Building, a in the 1950s in built d n from the Nazis,from who modernist opposed art and architecture. the In w e ur dership ofdership in the 1930s. rise power to with the Hitler’s coincided ess lea r s ’ p est-kno o ies umed control ofumed control individual liberties as well as artistic, political, and cultural M his b ehrens, who his designs was well-known time at the for of an architect factories and . ass ue t f y B ee of Germany, Nazi States. he immigrated the United to of became director Mies the r lr r easingly unstable political atmosphere in Weimar,easingly in political unstable atmosphere in it down close to he was forced ow do you think people would react to the Farnsworth House today if it had just been to the Farnsworth would react ow do you think people rom 1930–33,rom of was the director Mies the Bauhaus, an art, architecture, industrial uilt? Do you suppose they would react as people did in 1951? Explain. they would react uilt? Do you suppose The Bauhaus e e

t Mies van der Rohe died in Chicago, Rohe van der Mies Illinois, in 1969. H b ofThe youngest children, five until he was shop stone-cutting in his father’s worked Mies F In the context of Mies’s statement about the Farnsworth House, the Farnsworth statement about of Mies’s In the context was do you think his design or why not? Why successful? Mies was a prolific architect, was a prolific Mies designing homes, buildings, office banks, , and useum ofuseum Art called Modern fug itle w

e e ollowing years, his design for work. struggled Mies commissions retain to 1938, In as a RESEARCH PROJECTS 1. the Bauhaus on movement. research Conduct the movement, define you would How and of some were Who what is its history? the artists in the movement, active and what are of examples some of did some How work? their in surface Bauhaus the main concepts of had impact a major the fate on own designs? in Germany The political climate Mies’s the quently increased the public’s interest in . interest the public’s increased quently them to consider the following questions: consider to them • DER ROHE VAN ABOUT LUDWIG MIES Mies, born was Ludwig Rohe van der Mies , in Germany, in 1886. Aachen, located ofin the state (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Rhine-Westphalia North of the borders to close Belgium, The , and Luxembourg,Aix-la-Chapelle. is also known as old,thirteen years as an in his work emerge later would that gaining experience valuable architect. years, trade two for to school went subsequently He he and when he was fifteen workshop. decorator’s in an interior worked later, years Three working a job found Mies a local architect.for he was nineteen, When of in the office work to to he moved P houses. architects, (Other promising Corbusier, as Le such in Behrens’s work also came to Alois designing a house for earned that time.) commission Mies his first around office Riehl, University, at Friedrich-Wilhelm professor a philosophy in Berlin. design, in 1917, Gropius Walter and crafts by founded school and originally in located Weimar, Germany. The focus of artistic designs mass-produce for the Bauhaus was to items,household as teapots, such furniture, lighting fixtures, fabrics wallcoverings, for and je FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY FOLLOW-UP from the excerpt write to students response in a short your essay Have • H thought. escape the to Berlin in an attempt the Bauhaus to Although had relocated Mies incr 1933 d ofArmour Institute department at the architecture known as the Illinois (now Technology ofInstitute Technology). States, buildingsschool in the United Canada, Germany, Republic, the Czech and Spain. One o f r Manhattan.midtown primary the to influences attributed Mies’s have Scholars Wright. Lloyd and Frank at The in a 1932 exhibition movement was featured work Mies’s M

HOUSES 24 HOUSES 25 , the Bauhütten rial in order to create a smooth and glossy surface. create to rial in order Enamel can also e eat a mat r t o The Bauhaus was a school created by in 1917, Gropius Walter by in opened The first created Bauhaus which was a school T l: name refer to a type to refer of very that form a glossy fine pigments from and resin paint made surface. homes for stonemasons during the High Middle Ages. during the High Middle stonemasons for homes its training The Bauhaus conducted artists’through workshops, gained students practical where skills and hands-on in art, craft, and industrial and architectural design. E Bauhaus: Weimar, Germany, finally closed the Nazis Dessau and Berlin before to relocated then and 1933. in it down the German word to reference The name Bauhaus makes GLOSSARY Bauhaus movement. of did the closing How and the career Bauhaus the affect both Mies’s ofreception States? the United in architecture modern European 2. the Impact on Artists Politics and During 1930s, the in Germany. power to rose Hitler a result, As artists and intellec- many tuals, Mies, like and the suppression sought escape censorship countries in other to asylum of individual and political rights. who of Find out some these artists were, their at that time. and how in Germany political events by affected were work and a report that lives Write research. your presents