A USA Today article “Historians, architecture buffs push to preserve modernist homes,” explains that modernist homes hit their peak in the 1950s “as designs by Johnson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Eliot Noyes, Marcel Breuer and others gained acclaim.”
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Retrotogo.com, a “guide to all things hip and retro,” highlights Knoll’s modernist MR armchair, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and “still very much a contemporary piece of design.”
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A Chicago Tribune article, “Elgin group wants buildings by Marina City architect preserved,” uses IIT Professor of Architectural History Kevin Harrington as an expert source, stating that the designs of the architect, Bertrand Goldberg, “were important in the modernist movement.” The article also mentions that Goldberg studied under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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A London Times article, “Barcelona: the complete guide,” mentions the 1929 International Exhibition and Mies van der Rohe’s German entry, the Pavilion. It explains that there is now a 1986 replica of the Pavilion in the original’s place, but that “it’s still a tranquil delight.” The article also recommends Mies van der Rohe’s buttonback Barcelona Chair, “now a star of banks and bachelor pads worldwide.”
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A Detroit News article, “Farmington Hills homeowner celebrates mid-century design,” mentions that some of the furnishings in the home are Mies van der Rohe designs, including Barcelona black leather living room chairs, Bruno dining room chairs and a white leather daybed.
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A HULIQ.com release, “Chicago History Museum Brings Architectural Photographs to Public Eye,” explains that the museum is currently working on project to catalog and digitize 15,000 of its 250,000 Hedrich Blessing photographs. The first to be completed were 2,200 Mies van der Rohe images.
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A Building Design article today, “Chiseling an identity,” discusses Penelope Curtis’s study of the inter-relationship between modern architecture and sculpture from the 1920s to the 1960s. It mentions Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion and states that it was “at the leading edge of 1920s architecture.”
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slate.com's obituary of British architectural writer, critic, broadcaster, and teacher Martin Pawley noted, "I think that of all architects, he admired Ludwig Mies van der Rohe the most, not only for aesthetic reasons but for his phlegmatic consistency and refusal to be swayed by the tides of change. Martin, too, was happiest standing alone against the crowd."
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A Sunday Chicago Tribune Magazine story, "The glass box revisited," asked IIT dean Dean Donna Robertson to name the quintessential Chicago high-rise and she chose the Mies twin residential towers on North Lake Shore Drive. Three architecture firms then were asked to redesign one unit for the article.
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An Associated Press story, here from the San Jose Mercury News, notes that Mies's Seagram Building is one of "10 great buildings worth seeing in NYC.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents Just In: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection including IIT Mies Wallpaper (2004), a project developed for the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) that features a portrait of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe composed of pictograms that depict various student activities and, from afar, form a single coherent image.
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On December 22, the Wall Street Journal published, "The Biggest Mies Collection."
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A Chronicle of Higher Education story, "Modernism and America," has several references to Mies.
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The Cleveland Jewish News, in a story about the film "Bauhaus in America." noted Mies's contributions.
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Edward Lifson's The New Modernist blog mentions the collaboration between IIT, the Mies Society and Hubbard Street Dance with performances in January in Crown Hall.
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