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This 4 page paper provides some biographical information on this man of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The paper addresses the way in which Mies changed society and architecture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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was the latest entertainment art form. The furniture and architectural styles were mundane. In the past, the deco decade and the fifties style homes were also reminiscent of the eruption
of suburbia. Throughout the United States, tract homes were built and communities began to look much the same around the country. Things began to become modern, but there was no
art in many of these structures. Still, artistic influences from the past as well as influences in the decade itself were extraordinary. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a
significant influence not just due to the effects of his architecture on modernism, which was refined with his pure style, but also due to the effect it had on society.
He was born in 1886 in middle Europe (Andersen 77). His interesting name is really a meld of his mothers maiden name Rohe although he
kept the German Mies as well, a term which loosely translates to "lousy" (77). Many refer to him just as Mies. A German architect, he preceded modern architecture
with his innovative designs for tubular-steel furniture, for example, and the use of and steel and glass to create skyscrapers ("Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig " PG). He soon achieved
international fame and when he moved to America in 1937, where he founded and directed the architecture department at the Armour Institute in Chicago (PG). He was integral
to the radical transformation of architecture during the 1920s and 1930s (Andersen 77). He left Germany to go to Chicago prior to the advent of the Nazi era (77). It
is interesting to note that he was born in Europe at a time when a lot of great artists surfaced. Of course, he was probably just a baby when some
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