The Chicago Tribune “Play dates” section May 1 lists IIT’s Campus Architectural Tour as a “thing to do.”
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A May 2 Salt Lake Tribune story, “The glorious glass house in New Canaan,” discusses Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Conn. And states, “like fellow architect Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in Plano, Ill., from whose template Johnson borrowed, the Glass House revolutionized ideas of the sanctity of home, hearth and privacy and validated Le Corbusier's notion of the house as a “machine for living.”
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A Bloomberg.com article, “Leger Sells for Record $39.2 Million at Sotheby’s N.Y. Auction,” mentions that Hermann Lange, a major prewar collector of French modern and German expressionist art, commissioned Mies van der Rohe to design a home to hang his art in 1927.
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A London Times article, “When creating his island hideaway, Brazilian designer Carlos Miele followed the natural rhythms of his home country,” mentions that Miele was inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Illinois.
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An Architecture Week piece, “Renzo Piano’s New York Times Building,” states that skyscrapers cannot be appreciated as objects in space “unless we back off a bit and see them isolated on the skyline — the way the Empire State Building is often portrayed, or Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, which has the benefit of a generous setback from Park Avenue, making it a bronze trophy on a pedestal.”
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An Interior Design article, “Richard Meier Lands Arts Gold Medal,” mentions that Meier, an architect who was recently awarded the 2008 Arts Gold Medal, will “join a list of past honorees including Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright.”
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The New York Times offers a list of house tours and mentions that one of the homes features original furnishings designed by Mies van der Rohe.
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An International Herald Tribune story, “On the brink of disaster, a little nit-picking,” discusses the architectural works of Richard Neutra and compares one of his minimalist creations to Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House.
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An Interior Design story, “A Miesian Headquarters for Ellerbe Becket,” explains that Ellerbe Becket, a Kansas City-based architecture, engineering and interiors firm, has moved into a building designed by Mies van der Rohe. The article opens, “What better bragging rights for a design firm than moving its headquarters into a Mies van der Rohe-designed building?”
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A Toronto Star article, “Cast a vote for Pug beautifuls,” explains the people’s choice awards that are given to the best and worst new buildings in Toronto and mentions that “the theoretical glass skyscrapers designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the 1920s can now be seen on almost any corner in Toronto.”
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A Telegraph article, “Minimalism: Inside Britain’s tidiest houses,” highlights the home of minimalists Brandon Haw and Tanji Kaler and mentions that growing up, Haw’s “architectural heroes were Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.”
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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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It's an interesting combination of the classic clean lines of Mies, the bizarre "rave-worthy" vision of Rem Koolhaas, and the subtle extreme of Jahn.
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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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A column in the Washington Post, "Deciding the Fate of Modern Buildings That Don't Age Gracefully," includes analysis of Mies's Washington D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Library building.
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