eloped materials and technology to create an art expressive of an industrial age. From 1920 to 1928 he studied at the Bauhaus. There he followed the lead of Walter Gropius. In 1928 he began a private practice in Berlin, designing the Dolderthal Apartments in Zurich. In 1946 he moved to New York City and thereafter attracted numerous major commissions including the Sarah Lawrence College Theatre, Bronxville NY, St. Johns Abbey, in Collegeville Minnesota, and the International Business Machines research centre in La Guade France. He also designed the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, another of the founders of Bauhaus architecture, was born in Aachen Germany. In 1908 Mies began work with Peter Behrens as a draftsman. Behrens was a leader in the new German architecture of the twentieth century. While working for Behrens, he met Walter Gropius, who had been interested in some of Behrens work. After working for a modern art collector who had commissioned him to build her home, Mies went to war. After the war he opened an independent architecture practice that would keep him busy until 1938. The period between the two world wars was a great time for modern art. Modern art saw great advances not only in technology but also in acceptance. In 1938 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe moved to the United States to further develop his ideas and theories. He accepted a job at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. During the next 20 years he honed in on his architectural skills and weeded out his flaws. He had performed many experiments and through these we begin to fully understand the capabilities of steel. The Seagram Building in New York, the true essence of a skyscraper, would not be possible without the ingenuity of Ludwig. Although the American Skyscraper owes much to Louis Sullivan, the glass curtain is associated with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. As described by Frank Lloyd Wright, the b...
