MIES VAN DER ROHE, Ludwig

The son of an Aachen stonemason, he moved to Berlin as a teenager, apprenticing himself to an established architect and then working as an assistant before establishing his own office in 1913, incidentally adding his mother's name to his father's for presence. Emigrating from Hitler's Germany, Mies had the foresight to settle in Chicago, which had traditionally been more supportive of advanced architecture than other cities, and to teach at its technological institute, rather than, say, at a...