Editing Modern architecture (section)

===Ludwig Mies van der Rohe===
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File:VT16_PD_zahrada.jpg|[[Villa Tugendhat]] in [[Brno]], Czech Republic (1928–30)
File:Farnsworth House by Mies Van Der Rohe - exterior-8.jpg|The [[Farnsworth House]] in [[Plano, Illinois]] (1945–51)
File:S.R. Crown Hall.jpg|[[Crown Hall]] at the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]], Chicago (1956)
File:Seagrambuilding.jpg|The [[Seagram Building]], New York City, 1958, by [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]]
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[[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] described his architecture with the famous saying, "Less is more". As the director of the school of architecture of what is now called the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]] from 1939 to 1956, Mies (as he was commonly known) made Chicago the leading city for American modernism in the postwar years. He constructed new buildings for the Institute in modernist style, two high-rise apartment buildings on Lakeshore Drive (1948–51), which became models for high-rises across the country. Other major works included [[Farnsworth House]] in [[Plano, Illinois]] (1945–1951), a simple horizontal glass box that had an enormous influence on American residential architecture. The Chicago Convention Center (1952–54) and [[Crown Hall]] at the Illinois Institute of Technology (1950–56), and The [[Seagram Building]] in New York City (1954–58) also set a new standard for purity and elegance. Based on granite pillars, the smooth glass and steel walls were given a touch of color by the use of bronze-toned I-beams in the structure. He returned to Germany in 1962–68 to build the new Nationalgallerie in Berlin. His students and followers included [[Philip Johnson]], and [[Eero Saarinen]], whose work was substantially influenced by his ideas.{{Sfn|Bony|2012|page=129}}