But asking Murial Cooper to deliver an ugly and ordinary book design would be like forcing Mies van der Rohe to put a mansard roof on the Seagram Building. |
While Gropius was active at the Bauhaus, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe led the modernist architectural movement in Berlin. |
The Seagram Building, New York City, 1958, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe became one of the world's most renowned architects in the second half of the 20th century. |
In 1937 Mies van der Rohe also moved to the United States,he became one of the most famous designers of postwar American skyscrapers. |
German designers became early leaders of modern product design, with the Bauhaus designers like Mies van der Rohe, and Dieter Rams of Braun being essential pioneers. |