The German master was despised by postmodernists, but now - as their Google Doodle shows - it is considered possibly the first architect who has the last word

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have to say about the landscape design today? Probably, "I told you was right." Or at least, "I was not as bad as we thought."

126th birthday today would be the German architect, having lived so long (he continued, in a wheelchair and arthritis at the age of 85 years), and I feel really would have done better than in 1986 - the centenary year. Shares of Mies was at its lowest point ever: Postmodernism was in its pomp and Robert Venturi became famous by Mies van der Rohe's "less is more" given in the "less is a bore." In addition, Mies "international" style helped successfully handling blamed for the creation of urban landscapes soft generic set. Then it was his association with the Nazi shadow, before emigrating to the United States in 1937.

Mies real problem is that it was probably the first architect who has the last word. His lasting achievement was to strip architecture in its purest essence - for "almost nothing", he said. Was well placed to achieve this technical progress in building materials and engineering, but he was philosophically reductionist led to his goal. He believed in the revelation of the underlying "truth" of the world, mainly through pure geometric forms and proportions. It was very successful, of course, especially Americans austere structures, like the Seagram Building and the Farnsworth House. But where do you go from there? You can only play what is already created or lower versions of the same - so Mies cheap imitations that came to characterize the international style

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today, Mies also be scratching your head in the ubiquity of the furniture he designed for these houses. President of FC Barcelona, ??for example, that Mies was never intended for mass production, became the last word in the lobby furniture company. Similarly, the president of Brno, he designed for the Tugendhat House. Both entered mass production in early 1960 and have not stopped selling since - in considerable quantities: a new Barcelona will cost about £ 5000. If you find an original that can essentially retired. Like his buildings, which were so simple that it could not be better - but to make cheap imitations

Mies can view elements of their work in the brain architects such as Rem Koolhaas, UNStudio and MVRDV, but can also smile with satisfaction Shard Renzo Piano, is increasingly in London. By 1921, in response to a competition to design a new office building for the Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, Mies presented a drawing of an angular, prismatic proto-skyscraper with a steel frame and walls entirely of glass - the different facets angles to reflect light changes. It would have been completely impossible to build a design at once, of course, but variations of it have been built since then, at least not in the London Bridge. They are probably already sort of Barcelona chairs for its lobby right now.

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