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Mies
Mies may refer to: People * Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect *Maria Mies (born 1931), German feminist * Richard W. Mies (born 1944), U.S. Navy admiral and fourth commander in chief of the United States Strategic Command *Mies Boissevain-van Lennep (1896–1965), member of the World War II Dutch resistance * Andreas Mies (born 1990), German tennis player Places * Mies, Switzerland, a municipality *the German name for Mežica in Slovenia *the German name for Stříbro in the Czech Republic *the German name for the Mže river in the Czech Republic and Germany Ships * HNLMS ''Mies'', a Dutch Navy tugboat in service 1946–47 * ST ''Mies'', Dutch East Indian tugboat in service 1947–53 and an Indonesian tugboat in service 1958–83 * KRI ''Mies'', an Indonesian Navy tugboat in service 1953–58 Other *Battle of Tachov or Battle of Mies, fought in Bohemia in 1427 as part of the Hussite Wars See also *Jacob of Mies (1372–1429), Bohemian reformer *Mie (disambiguat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture. In the 1930s, Mies was the last director of the Bauhaus, a ground-breaking school of modernist art, design and architecture. After Nazism's rise to power, with its strong opposition to modernism (leading to the closing of the Bauhaus itself), Mies emigrated to the United States. He accepted the position to head the architecture school at what is today the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Mies sought to establish his own particular architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. The style he created made a statement with its extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
