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The Architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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The Architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The origins of modern architecture
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 8/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • At the end of this course students will be able to recognize, appreciate and understand the architecture of Mies.
  • The course enhances human development.
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.
  • The course promotes self-learning.

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 53m total length

  • Introduction3:15

    Explore Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's architecture, tracing early works to projects like the German pavilion, Farnsworth House, glass house, and Seagram Building, highlighting minimalism, clarity, simplicity, and Barcelona chair.

  • Early works and influence4:26

    Explore early works and influences that shaped Mies van der Rohe, from his stonemason father to mentor Zinka, with Gothic and Romanesque references guiding his rectangular prisms and flat roofs.

  • German Pavilion for the Barcelona Exposition7:15

    Trace the German pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona exposition as a travertine clad hybrid of open and enclosed space, with cruciform columns and a water basin.

  • Villa Tugendhat6:02

    Explore Villa Tugendhat by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, highlighting Barcelona pavilion-inspired cruciform chrome columns, onyx wall, and a level-spanning plan that blurs indoors and outdoors via dropping glass panels.

  • Farnsworth House7:28

    Explore the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe: a six-foot raised steel-and-glass retreat on a floodplain, with eight perimeter columns forming three horizontal planes and a minimalist, open interior.

  • "Glass House" apartments5:15

    Explore the glass house apartments on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, through a 26-story steel skeletal frame that resists wind and lateral loads, with repeating rectangular bays and mullioned glass walls.

  • Seagram Building8:06

    The Seagram Building on Park Avenue showcases modernist functionalism and pioneering tall-building engineering, from high-strength molded connections to hybrid brace and moment frames, with bronze mullions.

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston2:50

    Explore museum of fine arts Houston, originally designed in neo classical style by William Ward Watkin, with additions by Mies van der Rohe, featuring curved volumes and a floor lobby.

  • National Gallery, Berlin3:36

    The 1968 National Gallery pavilion in Berlin sits on a large pool, a minimalist rectangular prism that echoes the Barcelona pavilion and emphasizes unobstructed space and skin-and-bones simplicity.

  • Course Catalog5:32

    Explore the course catalog for the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and thanks.

Requirements

  • This course if for anyone interested in design and architecture in general, and modern architecture in particular.

Description

This course explores the design and architecture of one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe along with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer and Frank Lloyd Wright are the architects that most contributed to the development of modern architecture. In this course we examine some of the most important and iconic works of Mies.

I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone who has an interest in or is involved in architecture and design.

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