Ludwig mies van der rohe

 Ludwig Mies was born in Germany in

1886.
 Employed as a draftsman and designer in
the office of Peter Behrens at the same
time as Gropius was a senior assistant,
Mies remained there until 1911.
 Mies believed in the validity of his phrase
“less is more”.
 Mies won an international reputation with
his design for the German Exhibit Pavilion
at the Barcelona exhibition of 1929.
German pavilion, Barcelona
 The Barcelona Pavilion
to have been the first
building fully to exploit
the ability of modern
structural technology
of steel and concrete
domain walls optional
elements– they no
longer have any role
in holding up the
roofs, so that interior
space can be freely
planned without
division into rooms
and web as much
openness as may be
desirable for a
particular function.
 The open space of the
area, which had
identified rooms but
screen walls of glass and
marble to define spaces,
had been a key influence
on modern ideas of
interior planning.
 The walls are the right
floor to ceiling glass,
structural support is
provided by slim steel
columns.
 The area was finished
with luxurious materials,
including marble, Onyx,
green glass, polished
steel.
 The chairs and Ottomans
now all Barcelona are
visible in their original
positions
Tugendhat house, Czech republic
1928-30
 Meis van der rohe’s opens the ideas were introduced in
residential design.
 And houses on a hillside, the entrance and the large at
the upper street level the main living area on the floor
below is an open space subdivided only by an onyx
marble screen, separating the living space from an
adjacent library cum study area and a curving screen of
Macassar ebony that defines an open dining area.
 The exterior walls on the downhill side of the bay and
across its end are entirely of floor to ceiling glass.
 The curtains can be drawn back and the walls lowered
by mechanical means into the basement, leaving a space
totally open.
 Slim steel columns are the unobstructive structural
elements, barely noticeable with their mirror polished
steel surfaces.
 Barcelona chair
 The chair was designed
by needin 1929 for the
German exhibit
pavilion.
 The simple steel frame
supports leather straps,
which in turn support
feed and back cushions
covered with tufted
leather.
 The chair has come to
be regarded as one of
the classic designs of
the modern movement
and continues to be
manufactured and
widely used.
Marcel Breuer
 Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) was attracted to the
year-old Bauhaus school and its idealistic
program that promised new approaches to art
and architecture away from the methods of the
past.
 A he went on to become an instructor at the
Bauhaus, before that being an associate of
Walter Gropius and eventually an independent
designer.
 He is particularly well known for his furniture
designs from the Bauhaus era. These include the
“cesca chair” and “wasily chair”, designs that
have come to be known as classics still in
production and widely used.
This design uses the frame of
chrome plated steel tubing to
support seat, arms and back
of stretched material either
canvas or leather.
 This metal tubular
framed chair was
named in honour of
designer Marcel’s
daughter Cesca.
 Made in both arm and
armless versions, it
had seats and back of
cane (there were also
cushioned versions).
 This design has had
wide acceptance and
remains in production
today by a number of
manufacturers
although sometimes
in versions of inferior
quality