EUROPE> GERMANY> Berlin

Perls House, 1911; Fuchs Addition, 1928
House. Hermannstrasse 14-16, Berlin, Germany. The building was restored by the German architect Dietrich von Beulwitz. Hugo Perls, who was an art dealer, sold the house to Eduard Fuchs, a well-known journalist, art historian, collector, and author. The house was eventually occupied by Dr. Bruno Lange, a physicist, after Fuchs fled to Paris to escape the Nazis, who stole his collection and library.

Werner House, 1913
House. Project in collaboration with architect Goebbels. Quermatenweg 2-4, Berlin, Germany. The site was directly adjoining the Perls house.

Urbig House, 1915-1917
House. Luisentstrasse 9, Berlin, Germany. The first design submitted by Mies had a flat-roof, but this was rejected. Mies then provided a hipped-roof with five dormer windows.

Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper, 1921
Unbuilt project. Skyscraper, offices building. Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, Germany. It was a competition of 145 projects submitted. Mies's entry, entitled "Honeycomb," won no prize-not even an honorable mention-nor was it included in the published book. It was rejected on the grounds that it failed to meet the criteria set by the organizing committee. Mies's building occupies the entire site, which most of the winning entries avoided doing.

Glass Skyscraper, 1922
Unbuilt project. Two glass skyscrapers Friederichstrasse Train Station, Berlin, Germany. In an article by Mies describing this project and Friedrichstrasse skyscrapers, he stated that he worked with glass models, discovering that "the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings."

Monument to Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, 1926
Monument. Berlin, Germany. It was originally called Monument to the November Revolution. Then it was meant to commemorate Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, the leaders of the German Communist Party. Mies' contribution was to make a great abstract sculpture out of what is essentially a giant headstone of a wall monument in an existing cemetery.

Alexanderplatz Remodeling, 1928
Unbuilt project. A competition for the remodeling of the busiest traffic centers in Berlin, the Alexanderplatz, Germany. Mies was one of six architects invited to participate in the competition, and his proposal placed dead last. The top prize was awarded to the firm of Luckhardt Bros. & Anker.

Adam Department Store, 1928
Unbuilt project. An eight-story department store. Berlin, Germany. It was one of the first project in which Mies proposed a curtain wall akin to that which became standard in his later commercial building.

Friedrichstrasse Office Building II, 1929
Unbuilt project. It was a competition by the Berlin Verkehrs-A.G. for Friedrichstrasse office building, Berlin, Germany. Once again, Mies lost and the first prize was awarded to a pair of designs, one by Erich Mendelsohn, the other by Paul Mebes and Paul Emmerich.

War Memorial, 1930
Unbuilt project. A competition for remodeling Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Neue Wache, or New Guard House and transforming it into a memorial to the German dead of The World War (second place award). It is located on the great boulevard, Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany.

Berlin Building Exhibition, 1931
Expo. Berlin, Germany. It was conceived for the display of the latest advances in architecture, city planning, and construction materials featuring Berlin life and would have included an entire model community. By 1930, the economic crisis had forced a reduction of such hope. An exhibit called The Dwelling in Our Time was the most architectural component.

Mies House

Reich House

Exhibition Spaces

Boarding House

Reich Apartments in the Boarding House

Mies Apartment for a Bachelor

Unidentified Material

Reichsbank, 1933
Unbuilt project. A competition proposal for a monument (among the six designs awarded final prizes- none of them built). It was eight-story-high addition to Reichsbank, Berlin, Germany.

Fair Grounds, no date
Unbuilt project. Exhibition. Possible location was at the Reichskanzlerplatz in Berlin, Germany.
The project has not been reliably identified as Mies'. Drawings have been found among his papers for a group of buildings meant for the Fair and Exhibition Grounds.

Berlin Exhibition, 1968-1969
Exhibition. Another Mies retrospective organized by the Art Institute of Chicago at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, Germany.

Internationale Bauausstellung, 1954-1956
Unbuilt project. Expo. Interbau Housing Exposition was staged in Berlin, Germany in 1957. Among the contributors to the event were Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Wassily Luckhardt and Hans Schwippert. Mies, who was invited to participate in the show, never completed the project he began.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Bingen

Bismarck Monument, 1910
Unbuilt project. Monument honoring Otto von Bismarck. The proposed site was a height overlooking the Rhein River on its west bank, Bingen, Germany. It was a competition that had submissions by 379 architects, painters, and sculptors. Mies' entry was given the title Deutschlands Dank (Germany's Gratitude) and included in the preliminary selection of twenty-six entries but not in the second fifteen entries selection because, as explained, of excessive building costs.

EUROPE >GERMANY> Charlotenburg

Kempner House, 1922
House. A project made in 1919 for a Berlin site, demolished in 1952. Sophienstrasse 5-7, Charlotenburg, Germany. The building was identified as the Kempner House in Philip Johnson's book, but was misidentified by Johnson (in consultation with Mies).

EUROPE> GERMANY> Essen

Henke House Addition, 1930
An addition to a house. 124 Virchowstrasse, Essen, Germany

Friedrich Krupp Administration Building, 1960-1963
Unbuilt project. Office building and exhibition hall. Possible location was at Hugel Park, Essen, Germany.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Frankfurt

Commerzbank Frankfurt A.M., 1967-1969
Unbuilt project. Main administration building. Possible location was at Grosse Gallusstrasse and Neue Mainzer Strasse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Howhnschonhausen

Lemke House, 1932-1933
House. Built on the Oberseestrasse (at 56-57) in Berlin-Hohenschonhausen (East Berlin), Germany.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Krefeld

Josef Esters House and Hermann Lange House, 1927-1930
Houses. The two houses are standing side by side on the Wilhelmshofallee in the aristocratic quarter of Krefeld, Germany. The two are similar in many aspects. They were commissioned at or about the same time by two executives of the same firm, Esters and Lange of the Vereingte Seidenweberein A-G of Krefeld. Mies worked on the two designs concurrently, and the construction of each was begun within a day of the other's.

Verseidag Factory, 1930-1935
Factory. The client was Verseidag, the large silk-weaving company in Krefeld, Germany.

Krefeld Golf Club, 1930
Unbuilt project. A competition for designing a Golf Club initially to accommodate sporting and social activities. Egelsberg Traut, near Krefeld, Germany.

Ulrich Lange House, 1935
Unbuilt project. House. Possible location was the corner of Buscher Holzweg and Moerser Landstrasse, in Krefeld-Traar, Germany.

Verseidag Administration Building, 1937-1938
Unbuilt project. Administration building. Possible location was Krefeld, Germany.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Magdeburg

Hubbe House and Hubbe-Related Studies, 1935
Unbuilt project. Possible location was on an island in the Elbe River by Magdeburg, Germany.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Mannheim

Mannheim National Theater, 1952-1953
Unbuilt project. Theater. Mies submitted this project to a competition he did not win, while at the same time he was working on the Convention Hall and busy with S.R. Crown Hall. The proposed location of the theater was in Mannheim, Germany.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Neditz

Eliat House, 1925
Unbuilt project. House. Possible location was at Fahrlander See Nedlitz near Potsdam, Germany. Mies got so far as to submit a well-studied and nearly final design of this house for Ernst Eliat who was a banker.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Neubabelsberg

Brick Country House, 1924
Unbuilt project. House. Possible location was Neubabelsberg, Germany. With this project Mies introduced a new conception of architectural space. Though not entirely of his own invention, he was able to give it a clarity that became "Miesian." Individual rooms are no longer the units of composition; instead individual wall planes are freely arranged and space flows continuously between them.

Mosler House, 1924-1926
House. Its address was Kaiserstrasse 28-29, Neubabelsberg. The current address is Karl-Marx-Strasse 28-29, Babelsberg, Germany. The house was built for Georg Mosler, a bank director, and now used as a children clinic.

Riehl House, 1907
First Mies commissioned house when hi was 21 years old.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Rathenow

Lohan Apartment, 1937
Apartment furnishing and decoration. It was for his second-born daughter Marianne and her husband, the Gymnasium professor Wolfgang Lohan. It was located in the Berlin suburb of Rathenow, Germany.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Schweinfurt

George Schaefer Museum, 1960-1963
Unbuilt project. Museum. Possible location was in Schweinfurt, Germany. Schaefer was the father-in-law of Dirk Lohan, Mies's grandson. He was the owner of the most important private collection of nineteenth-century German art in the world. Schaefer offered Mies the commission, and he was the one who withdrew it.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Schwielow

Youth Hostel, no date
Unbuilt project. Possible location was Schwielow-See, near Berlin, Germany. No conclusive evidence has been found that Mies played any active role whatever in the design. The drawings suggest his authorship less than that of Sergius Ruegenberg, who has, in fact, claimed the project for himself. Ruegenberg was an assistant for Mies for years.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Stuttgart

Weissenhofsiedlung, 1925-1927
Houses and apartment buildings. A housing colony on a hill overlooking Stuttgart, Germany. This twenty-one houses and apartment buildings project comprises one of the most celebrated communal endeavors in the history of modern architecture. The ultimate success of this project was the role played by its artistic director, Mies himself, whose strategy was to invite a group of the most famous European architects to design individual buildings in conformity with the plan that he had designed himself

EUROPE> GERMANY> Wannase-Berlin

Eichstaedt House, 1922
House. Dreilindenstrasse 22, Wannase-Barlin, Germany. The house was built by Georg Eichstaedt, who seems to have been the owner of a publishing company.

Gericke House, 1932
Unbuilt project. House. An "idea competition" (all the entries were turned down). Possible location was Berlin-Wannsee, Germany.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Wilemsdrof-Berlin

Feldmann House, 1922
It was commissioned by Cuno Feldmann, a businessman. Partially destroyed at the end of World War II and rebuilt during the fifties, new partial demolition by new owner in 1958 but reconstruction. House. Erdenerstrasse 10-12, Wilemsdrof, Berlin, Germany.

EUROPE> GERMANY> Zehlendorf-Berlin

Nolde House, 1929
Unbuilt project. It was a one-story house meant to be located on the northwest corner of Sachsallee and Am Erlenbusch. Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany. Mies met the expressionist painter Emil Nolde shortly before World War I. In 1929 Nolde commissioned Mies to design this residence for him but for some reason the project failed.

EUROPE> POLAND> Guben

Wolf House, 1925-1927
House. It stood in Guben (now Poland), on a lot extended from the Teichbornstrasse southwesterly to a thoroughfare on the east bank of the Neisse River. It is considered that Mies did not construct a building in the post-World War I Modernist manner until this House commissioned by Erich Wolf.

EUROPE> SPAIN> Barcelona

German Pavilion, Barcelona, 1928-1929
Pavilion. It was a ceremonial reception space for German industrial exhibits commissioned by the German government at the Barcelona International Exposition of 1929. Barcelona, Spain.

Barcelona Exhibits, 1929
Supervising the planning of the individual exhibits of Germany's contribution to International Exposition of 1929. Barcelona, Spain.

EUROPE> Italy> Bolanzo

Mountain House, 1934
Unbuilt project. House. Possible location was at the end of a mountain pass near Bolanzo, Italy

EUROPE> BELGIUM> Brussels

Brussels Pavilion, 1934
Unbuilt project. It was an official request from the German government as well as a competition to design a building that must serve as a symbol of the "power" and "heroic will of National Socialism" (did not win). Possible location was in Brussels, Belgium.

EUROPE> CZECH REPUBLIC> Brno

Tugendhat House, 1928-1930
House. It is on a slope site overlooking a broad valley across which the old Spielberg Castle can be seen in Brno, Czechoslovakia. Once married, Grete and Fritz Tugendhat proposed to build a house. Mies designed a large and luxurious villa for them. It boasted several of his finest pieces of original furniture, including the Brno chair, the Tugendhat chair, and the X coffee table.

NORTH AMERICA> CANADA> Montreal, Quebec

Mountain Place Development, 1961
Unbuilt project. Possible location was on a sloped site between Rue de la Montagne and Rue Drummond in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Two buildings rest on a platform, one is a 43-story apartment structure and the other is about 14-stories presumably for offices.

Montreal
Designed one of the high-rise and an automobile service station. Nun's Island.

NORTH AMERICA> CANADA> Toronto. Ontario

Toronto-Dominion Center, 1963-1969
Urban planning and commercial development. The project is a 5.5-acre area in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Two office towers of 56 and 46 stories and a single one-story structure houses the Toronto-Dominion Bank identify the project.

Montreal
Designed one of the high-rise and an automobile service station. Nun's Island.

NORTH AMERICA> USA 

Museum for a Small City, 1942
Unbuilt project. Museum. In 1941 Mies was asked by Architectural Forum to submit a design for a church, which the magazine planned to feature in a later issue devoted to "postwar buildings." Mies accepted the invitation, but instead offered a project he called a Museum for a Small City. USA.

Concert Hall for a Small City, 1942
Unbuilt project. USA

50 X 50 House, 1950-1952
Unbuilt project. Housing prototype. Mies claimed to have conceived the 50X50 house as a solution to the problem of mass housing, a genre of architecture to which he had never paid serious attention in the past.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Los Angeles, California 

Rimpau Apartments, 1958
Unbuilt project. Two apartment buildings with a one story shopping unit and a motel added at the west end. Rimpau Boulevard and Eighth Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> San Francisco, California 

Marina Boulevard Apartments, 1958
Unbuilt project. Apartment building. Marina Boulevard, San Francisco, CA, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> San Mateo, California 

Foster City Apartments, 1964
Unbuilt project. Apartment buildings. Two 21-story high-rise blocks rising from a platform base are separated by a wide terrace on which a single-story restaurant/recreation building is located. The proposed location was in San Mateo, CA, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Weston, Connecticut

Morris Greenwald House, 1955-1963
House and additions. 11 Homeward Lake, Weston, CT, USA. There is doubt that Mies had anything of consequence to do with the design of this house; with little evidence of the master's directing hand.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> New Haven, Connecticut 

Church Street Development, 1965
Unbuilt project. Street Redevelopment and Renewal Project was top be in New Haven, CT, USA. The project included Housing for the Elderly; Public Family Housing, Moderate Income Housing; Upper Middle Income Housing; and Primary School.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Miami, Florida

First Federal Savings Building, 1962
Unbuilt project. Possible location was in downtown Miami, FL, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Des Moines, Iowa

Home Federal Savings and Loan Association Building, 1959
Bank and office building. 3-story building located on Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA, USA.

Meredith Hall, Drake University, 1962-1965
Academic building. A low-rise structure descends to the corner of 28th Street and Carpenter Street at Drake Des Moines, IA, USA

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Bensenville, Illinois

Bensenville Row Houses, 1954
Unbuilt project. House. It is one of Mies "Steel Frame Row Houses." It was meant to be for the Chicago suburb of Bensenville, IL, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Chicago, Illiinois

Circulating Exhibition, 1939
Exhibition. The first exhibition for Mies' work in the USA assembled by the Art Institute of Chicago as a tribute to the illustrious architect who had just resumed his successful career in that city. Mies proposed four different spaces included in the exhibition tour: the Princeton University Exhibition Gallery; the Saint Louis Art Museum; Smith College Museum of Art; and the fourth probably was of the galleries of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Renaissance Society Exhibition, 1946
Exhibition. The galleries occupied space in Goodspeed Hall of the University of Chicago, IL, USA

Wall Shelf for Mies' Apartment in Chicago, 1941
Wall shelves. In 1941 Mies moved his residence from a Chicago hotel to 200 East Pearson Street, Chicago, IL, USA, where he lived until his death in 1969. Other than painting the walls white, the only change he made in the apartment was to build two wall shelves cantilevered on both sides of a gypsum block wall that separated the living room from a bedroom.

Promontory Apartments, 1946-1949
Apartment building. Located on 5530 South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA. It was the initial product of the relationship Mies struck up with the Chicago developer Herbert Greenwald. This collaboration yielded over a dozen major buildings and complexes.

Promontory Addition, 1965-1968
Unbuilt project. Supervising an assortment of additions to the Promontory Apartments building designed by Mies and located on 5530 South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA. Two decades after the completion of Promontory, Mies was asked to supervise an assortment of addition to the original building.

Theater, 1947
Unbuilt project. Theater. It was a project shown as a large model in an exhibition at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA.

Algonquin Apartments (#1), 1948
Apartment building. Cornell Avenue at East Fiftieth Place and East End Avenue near Hyde Park Boulevard, Chicago, IL, USA.

Algonquin Apartments (#2), 1949-1951
Apartment building. Cornell Avenue at Hyde Park Boulevard and East End Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA.

860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, 1948-1951
Apartment buildings. A pair of twenty-six-story towers at 860/ 880 Lake Shore Drive, along the City's Gold Coast of Chicago, IL, USA. Extending from Chestnut Street north one block to Delaware Street with a view to Lake Michigan across the drive. For this assignment Mies was able to return to the steel frame that the post-war steel shortage had prevent him from using in previous project.

Mies van der Rohe Apartment, Lake Shore Drive, 1950
Unbuilt project. 880 Lake Shore Drive, Apartments 21 A & B, Chicago, IL, USA. When Mies was designing the 860/880 Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings, he considered moving into 880 Building. Two years later after the building was completed, he studied various spatial configurations and interior walls treatment. Ultimately, he chose not to live in this building, it is said, because he felt he might be too frequently bothered by encounters with querulous neighbors.

The Arts Club of Chicago, 1948-1951
Institution and exhibition. Having shut down its activities during World War II, the Art Club of Chicago reopened in 1951 in new quarters on the city's chic Near North Side at 109 East Ontario Street, Second Floor, Chicago, IL, USA. The new rooms were designed by Mies, the only example in his catalogue of an institutional space executed in a building not of his own creation.

Charles B. Genther Office Building, 1950-1951
Unbuilt project. Office building. Chicago, IL, USA. The best guess is that the building was conceived as a joint effort of Mies and Pace & Association in Chicago, with Charles Genther, who was a student of Mies at the Illinois Institute of Technology, as the latter firm's partner in charge.

Charles B. Genther Apartment, 1951-1952
Apartment interior design. An apartment in the south corner of the top floor (26th) of Mies's 860 Lake Shore Drive building, Chicago, IL, USA.

Herbert Greenwald Apartment, 1951-1953
Apartment interior design. 860 Lake Shore Drive, Apartment 25M, Chicago, IL, USA. It was built in the penthouse of Mies' Commonwealth Promenade Apartment Building.

Tri-Tower Apartments, 1953
Unbuilt project. 25-story Apartment buildings. The proposed location was on the northeast corner of Chestnut and De Witt, Chicago, IL, USA.

Esplanade Apartment Buildings, 1953-1956
Apartment buildings. 900-910 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA. After the success of the 860/880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Mies and Greenwald, together, conceived five major project proposals on Chicago North Side. Esplanade was one of them.

Chestnut and DeWitt Apartments, 1953-1956
Unbuilt project. Two apartment buildings. The proposed location was on the corner of Chestnut and De Witt Streets, Chicago, IL, USA. The project was one of the five proposals conceived by Mies and Greenwald together on Chicago North Side.

1300 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, 1953-1956
Unbuilt project. Two apartment buildings. 1300 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA. The project was one of the five proposals conceived by Mies and Greenwald together on Chicago North Side.

Diversey-Lake Shore Drive Apartments, 1956-1958
Unbuilt project. Apartment buildings. Between two and six buildings to be on West Diversey Parkway and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA. The project was one of the five proposals conceived by Mies and Greenwald together on Chicago North Side.

Commonwealth Promenade Apartments, 1953-1956
Four Apartment building located at the corner of Diversey and Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL, USA. The project was one of the five proposals conceived by Mies and Greenwald together on Chicago North Side.

Convention Hall, 1952-1954
Unbuilt project. Convention hall. The proposed location of this project was on Cermak Road, between Michigan Avenue and South Parkway, Chicago, IL, USA. It can be argued that Mies's unbuilt project for a Convention Hall was his expression of clear-span structure and unitary space. Certainly it was his most monumental effort, with a floor area of 720 by 720 feet and a ceiling height of 85 feet, marking the building, had it been completed, as the largest exposition hall in the world at the time it was designed.

Hyde Park Urban Renewal, 1959
Unbuilt project. Urban project. Possible location was in Hyde Park near University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. H. Greenwald with Mies proposed it in collaboration with Ludwig Hilberseimer in various scattered parcels of land in the vicinity of the university.

Office Building, 1957
Unbuilt project. Office building. Possible location was at 845 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA. The drawings show two tall structures, one of 19 stories, the other of 21 stories, and each with a low-rise pavilion connected presumably to its rear.

Seagram Building, 1957
Unbuilt project. High-rise office building. The possible location was on Michigan Avenue between Pearson and Chesnut streets, Chicago, IL, USA. As Mies' Seagram Building in New York was nearing completion, the Seagram Corporation commissioned him to design an office building for Chicago. Economies defeated the Chicago project.

Motel, 1957-1958
Unbuilt project. Motel. The possible location was at 130th Street and the Calumet Expressway, Chicago, IL, USA. It was meant to be rectangular in plan, two stories high with a southern exposure and built on a grid with a glass wall.

Chicago Federal Center, 1959-1964
42-story office building. It is located on Dearborn Street in the Loop of Chicago, IL, USA. The project was built by the General Services Administration of the United States government as part of a plan initiated in the 1950s to update federal administrative and judiciary facilities through the country. Begun in 1959, it was designed in full by 1964, but in the process went through numerous changes. Construction was not completed until 1973. As chief designer among a group of architects, which included Schmidt, Garden & Erikson, C.F. Murphy Associates, and A. Epstein & Sons, all of Chicago, Mies saw no reason to accommodate his architecture to the traditional symbolism of government.

Office of Mies van de Rohe, 1959
Office design. The office was located at 230 East Ohio Street, Chicago, IL, USA. A small packet of drawings done for the space survives. None is by Mies' hand.

2400 Lakeview Apartments, 1962-1963
Apartment building. It is located beyond Lincoln Park facing Lakeview at 2400 Lakeview Drive, Chicago, IL, USA.

New Episcopal Church, 1961
Unbuilt project. Church. Possible location was at South Michigan Avenue between Thirtieth and Thirty-first Streets, Chicago, IL, USA.

New Episcopal Church, 1961
Unbuilt project. Church. Possible location was at South Michigan Avenue between Thirtieth and Thirty-first Streets, Chicago, IL, USA.

Social Service Administration Building, University of Chicago, 1962-1965
Academic building. A low-rise structure located on 60th Street at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

National Gallery, Berlin, 1962-1968
Gallery. The building is located on a sloping site a long the north bank of the Landwehr Canal in Berlin, Germany. It was completed one year before Mies died. To all appearances, he looked upon it as the final major effort of his life. It did provide him with an occasion to return to the city where he began his architectural practice.

ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

IIT Master Plan, General Studies, Preliminary Studies, 1939-1941
Campus master plan. Mies was in Chicago for less than a year when he received a commission for the master plan of the campus of Armour Institute of Technology (later became IIT). At first the project was a secret shared by Mies and Henry Heald, president of Armour, who admired Mies' talents as much as he felt ill-disposed toward a master plan already in the work by Alfred Alschuler, who died shortly after Mies set to work.

IITRI Minerals and Metals Research Building, 1942-1943
Research building. Including IITRI addition to it, this building was the first of Mies's new IIT campus buildings and his first completed work in America.

IITRI Addition: Materials and Technology Building, 1956-1958
Research building. Including IITRI addition to it, this building was the first of Mies's new IIT campus buildings and his first completed work in America.

IITRI Engineering Research Building, 1944-1946
Research building. Since the building was constructed at a time when World War II shortages limited the use of structural steel, the entire structure was built in reinforced concrete. Therefore, the latter material became standard in all IITRI and Armour Research Foundation Buildings on the campus.

IIT Central (Electrical) Vault, 1946
The building complies with the campus module, but is notable for its brick wall-bearing construction.

Institute of Gas Technology Complex, 1947-1955
It is located immediately south of S.R. Crown Hall. The project was designed as steel structure buildings. Budgetary restrictions, however, necessitated a shift to reinforced concrete. There is IGT South Building and IGT North Building. The South Building first housed the Armour Research Foundation and was later known as the IIT Research Institute (IITRI) Physics and Electrical Engineering Research Building. IGT purchased it from IIT in 1976. it contained the first industrial nuclear reactor in the United States, and was dismantled in 1977-78.

IITRI Life Sciences Research Building, 1951-1952
Formerly Armour Research Foundation-ARF Mechanical Engineering Research Building. The building was intended not only for research in the life sciences, but for work in heat transfer, design of weapon systems, and stress analysis.

American Association of Railroads Complex, 1948-1956
Offices, laboratories, and service areas. For the most part, the complex conforms to the 24-by 24-foot campus module and Mies' comparably standard use of steel or reinforced concrete skeleton system with glass and brick curtain walls.

IITRI Chemistry Research Building, 1957-1958
Unbuilt project. The intended site was at the south end of the IITRI complex on 35th Street, extending from Dearborn on the east Street to Federal Street on the west.

IIT Library and Administration Building, 1944-1945
Unbuilt project. It is possible that Mies intended the library to dominate the center of the north super block of the campus between 31st on north, 33rd Streets on south, State Street on east, and the New York Central and Island Railroad tracks on west (now the site of Grover M. Hall).

IIT Alumni Memorial Hall, 1945-1946
After Mies had modified and refined the details used in his earlier work, the basic details that were developed for this project became standard for many later campus buildings.

Lithographic Foundation Building, 1945
Unbuilt project. The possible location was at the northwest corner of State Street and 34th Street, immediately north of the site on which S.R. Crown Hall was built about ten years later.

Boiler Plant, 1945-1950
Plant. It is located near 34th Street, between Federal Street and the old New York Central and Rock Island railroad tracks. This plant was constructed when it was evident that the old building that had served as the central heating plant for Armour Institute of technology since it was built in 1891 was no longer capable of serving the building proposed in Mies' master plan.

Field House Building, Gymnasium, Natatorium, 1945
Unbuilt projects. Athletic facilities. From the early plan studies, the athletic facilities of IIT were meant to lay between 30th and 32nd streets and from State Street west to the old New York Central and Rock Island Railroad right of way.

Metallurgy and Chemical Engineering Building (Perlstein Hall), 1945-1946
Academic building. The vocabulary of basic building details that Mies developed in Alumni Memorial Hall became the standard elements of many of the later IIT buildings. Among these, Perlstein Hall was the first to incorporate a lecture room and an interior court, administration offices, and a foyer.

Chemistry Building (Wishnick Hall), 1945-1946
Academic building. It was named for the IIT trustee Robert I. Wishnick. It is just north and across 33rd Street from Siegel Hall. The two buildings are near twins.

Electrical Engineering and Physics Building (Siegel Hall), 1945
Academic building. It was named for the IIT trustee David T. Siegel. It was erected on the south side of 33rd Street at Dearborn Street while the early studies placed it just north of 33rd Street and close to the old New York Central and Rock Island railroad tracks. It is just south and across 33rd Street from Wishnick Hall. The two buildings are near twins.

Lewis Institute Building, 1945
Unbuilt project. Academic building. It was planned for the southeast corner of 33rd and South Dearborn streets where Siegel Hall now stands.

Materials Testing Shop, 1946
Unbuilt project. Laboratory. There is no indication for its location. However, since it was intended to serve both the Civil Engineering and Mechanics departments, one can speculate it to be situated in that same general area adjacent to the railroad right of way.

Watchman's Station, 1947
Unbuilt project. Kiosk. Mies' office designed a kiosk for IIT's security guards. No evidence of the intended locations.

Landscape Studies, 1947
Landscape. This landscape plan and others were done by Alfred Caldwell, a long-time member of the IIT architectural faculty. Following World War II Mies engaged Caldwell to work with him on campus landscaping problems.

IIT Student Union Building, 1940-1952
Unbuilt project. Student Center. This building was the other twin of the unbuilt Library and Administration Building.

Civil Engineering Building and Mechanics Building, 1948
Unbuilt project. This group was to have been built along the west side of the campus on the north side of 33rd Street just north of the existing Machinery Hall.

Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Savior, 1949-1952
Chapel. It is the only ecclesiastical building ever completed by Mies. It is 37 feet wide, 60 feet long, and 19 feet high. Its walls are constructed of buff brick with interior partitions of natural finished oak.

IITRI Engineering Research Building Storage Building, 1949
Storage sheds. Two storage sheds of brick were connected to the east faced of IITRI Engineering Building after three years of its construction.

S.R. Crown Hall, 1950-1956
College of Architecture. It represents everything Mies thought appropriate to a building devoted to architectural education. It is also his first large-scale, clear-span, universal-space building (120 X 220 X 18 feet). It took the form of a unitary space in which, as Mies saw it, an assortment of function and tasks could be carried out modified or even changed, with optimal flexibility. He spent only two year in S.R. Crown Hall before retiring from the faculty in 1958. Before that, he was conducting his classes for almost a decade in the Art Institute of Chicago and several commercial offices in downtown until he moved in 1947 to Alumni Memorial Hall on IIT campus.

Gas Booster and Metering Plant, 1950 (project)
Plant. It was to serve the boiler plant of IIT. The proposed location was to the north of the Boiler Plant

IITRI Test Cell, 1950
It was built for Armour Research Foundation (now the IIT Research Institute) on the northwest corner of 35th and South Federal streets. It was initially used for research in the testing of firearms. It no longer serves that purpose and, until recent time, is used for storage.

Flagpoles, 1954
Two schemes for the location are shown. The former indicates a flagpole on the lawn of the old Graduate House (now demolished) at Michigan Avenue and 33rd Street, while the latter shows where the two poles stand now in a north-south axis on the lawn to the south of Grover M. Hermann Hall.

General Housing, 1951-1955
Apartment complex. The IIT apartment of three buildings (Carman Hall, Bailey hall, and Cunningham Hall) occupies the northeast sector of the campus. A fourth apartment building in the same grouping was executed by other architect. All of them are located between 31st Street and the south side of 32nd Street. These buildings were intended to accommodate staff, faculty, and married students.

Carman Hall Apartments, 1951-1953
60 East 32nd Street

Bailey Hall Apartments, 1952-1955
3101 South Wabash Street

Cunningham Hall Apartments, 1952-1953
3100 South Michigan Avenue.

Student Housing, 1950; Fraternity Housing, 1954
Unbuilt project. Housing. The possible location for the housing was at the area between 32nd and 33rd streets to dormitories and fraternity building between 33rd and 34th streets.

Lettering, 1940s onward
Lettering and numbering signs. Seeking a standard type of letters and numbers for campus signage, Mies chose a simple sans serif Gothic face akin to the one he had used at the Bauhaus.

Television Station, 1951
Unbuilt project. TV educational building. The program requirements that the drawings address far exceed those presently met by the IITV educational program, which is carried out in a single lecture hall where teachers broadcast courses to classrooms located in various industries throughout the Chicago area.

Commons Building, 1952-1953
Common building. It is located at 3200 South Wabash Street close by the school's housing and fraternity complex. It contains facilities serving students and faculty campus residents alike: bookstore, valet shop, post office, grocery, campus housing office, kitchen, and dining area. The building underscores in its totality and supports in its details Mies' dictum that architecture is rooted in structure, with its expression springing from that fact.

Miscellaneous Classrooms/Laboratory Building Studies

Lettering for AAR Chicago Technical Center Administration Building, 1952

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Elmhurst, Illinois

Robert H. McCormick House, 1951-1952
House. 299 Prospect Avenue, Elmhurst, IL, USA. It is one of Mies' "Steel Frame Row Houses." It is reported that the steel-framed walls of the McCormick House were brought from the factory to the site under exceptional allowance by the police for the transport vehicles.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Lake Forest, Illinois

Herbert Greenwald House, 1955
Unbuilt project. House. The possible location was in the wooded western suburb of Chicago of Lake Forest, IL, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Melrose Park, Illinois

Steel Pre-Fabricated Row Houses, 1950-1951
Unbuilt project. Houses. It is one of Mies' "Steel Frame Row Houses." It was designed for Herbert Greenwald and meant for the Chicago suburb of Melrose Park, IL, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Plano, Illinois

Farnsworth House, 1946-1951
House. Built on 9.6 acre of wooded land on the north bank of Fox River, Plano, IL, some 60 miles west Chicago, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Winnetka, Illinois

Leon J. Caine House, 1950
Unbuilt project. House. Possible location was on Sheridan Road, Winnetka, IL, USA. It was meant to be big and luxurious. Mies made canny and persuasive use of everything he had copied from himself.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Indianapolis, Indiana

Cantor Drive-in Restaurant, 1945-1950
Unbuilt project. Drive-in restaurant. Intended to be located on the Thirty-eighth Street, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Joseph Cantor House, 1946-1947
Unbuilt project. House. Possible location was in Indianapolis, IN, USA

Berke Apartments, 1952-1953
Unbuilt project. Schematic studies of apartment buildings. Possible location was on Thirty-sixth and Meridian Streets, Indianapolis, IN, USA

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Baltimore, Maryland

One Charles Center, 1960-1961
Office Building. It is located in Baltimore, MD, USA. Economic considerations dictated the use of reinforced concrete for the frame of this project as the first instance in which it appeared in one of Mies's office buildings.

Highfield House Apartments, 1962
14-story apartment building. It is located at 4000 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, USA. It is built on a frame of reinforced concrete with a skin that is an infill, both fixed and openable windows.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Washington, DC

Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 1965-1968
Library. Washington, D.C. USA. The most remarkable aspect of this project may be that so many different functions were incorporated within its strict bilateralism.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookfarm Apartments, 1959
Unbuilt project. A composition of two 20-story apartment buildings separated by large plaza. Brookline, MA, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Detroit, Michigan

Lafayette Park, 1955-1963
Park development including town houses and 21-story apartments. Lafayette Park, Detroit, MI, USA. This project brought together Mies and Ludwig Hilberseimer in their first and only completed professional collaboration with the participation of the landscape architect Alfred Caldwell.

"Skid Row," 1958
Unbuilt project. Homeless men housing project. Detroit, MI, USA. If built, it might have been remarkable accommodating as many as three hundred of its residents.

Detroit Pavilion, 1955-1963
Pavilion Apartments and Lafayette Towers. Lafayette Park, Detroit, MI, USA.

Lafayette Towers, 1960
Two apartment buildings with a garage standing on the opposite or east side of the Lafayette Park near the intersection of Orleans and Lafayette streets, Detroit, MI, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Kansas City, Missouri

Rock Hill Development, 1959
Unbuilt project. Apartment and commercial development. Possible location was close by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on the south, and the Kansas City Art Institute and the Kansas and the Kansas Conservatory of Music to the southwest, in Kansas City, MO, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Newark, New Jersey

Branch Brook Park Redevelopment, 1958
Colonnade and 21-story Pavilion Apartment Buildings I and II in the Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ. USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Trenton, New Jersey

Riverside Apartments, 1951-1952
Unbuilt project. Apartment building. Possible location was on Lenape Avenue and Riverside, Trenton, NJ, USA.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> New York City, New York

Johnson, Crous, and Hess Apartments, 1930-1931
Apartments furnishing and decorating. Three private Apartments. Philip Johnson apartment was located at 424 East 52nd Street, New York. Mildred Crous apartment was located on the third floor of Borstellstrasse 12 in Berlin-Sudende Germany. Of the Hess apartment, almost nothing is known. Germany.

Battery Park Apartments, 1957
Unbuilt project. Apartment building. Battery Park, New York, NY, USA. The proposed parcels of land flanked Broad Street between Water and South Street.

Quadrangle Apartments, 1957-1959
Unbuilt project. Apartment buildings. Dekalb Avenue between Saint James Place and Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA. The Quadrangle Apartments were four 19-story buildings intended as housing for Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Seagram Building, 1954-1958
A 39-story, 516-feet office building of Joseph E. Seagram and Son Corporation. The project, the largest structure Mies ever put up, is sited on 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd and 53rd Streets, in New York City, NY, USA.

National Arts Club, 1955
Unbuilt project. Art club. Possible location was on 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY, USA. There is a little evidence of protracted work on the project by Mies' office.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Kaufmann Department Store Displays, 1941
Unbuilt project. A group of display cases for Kaufmann Department Store in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Science Hall, Duquesne University, 1962-1965
Academic building. A low-rise structure located at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Houston, Texas

Cullinan Wing Addition, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 1954
Museum. Houston, TX, USA. Mies' preliminary addition consisted of a segmentally curved building that connected the two flared wings while extending beyond them.

Exhibition Panels, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 1957
Exhibition panel. Houston, TX, USA. The system was a refinement of an earlier solution that Mies had used for exhibiting drawings and models of students architectural and planning work at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Seattle, Washington

King Broadcasting Studios Building, 1967-1969
Unbuilt project. Office building. Possible location was in Seattle, WA, USA. The role Mies played in the design was minimal, confined chiefly to making adjustments in the ideas conceived by his assistants.

NORTH AMERICA> USA> Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Resor House, 1937-1938
Unbuilt project. The possible location was on the Resor ranch in Jackson Hole, WY, USA. The project was revived and suspended several times. On his trip from Berlin to Wyoming, Mies disembarked in Chicago to discuss and then accepted the offer from Armour Institute of Technology to chair that institution's school of architecture.

SOUTH AMERICA> BRAZIL> Sao Paulo

U.S. Consulate, Sao Paulo, 1957-1962
Unbuilt project. General office building for the United States Consulate in Brazil. The possible location was at Avenida Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was a steel-framed building of two and one-half stories supported by a columnar grid.

SOUTH AMERICA> CUBA> Santiago

Ron Bacardi Administration Building, 1957-1960
Unbuilt project. Office headquarter. The possible location was on Calle Segunda and Carretera Central o Avenida de los Libertadores, Santiago, Cuba. Bosch, president of Bacardi Rum, had been greatly impressed by his earlier visit to S.R. Crown Hall on IIT campus in Chicago, then he asked Mies to design the office headquarters for Bacardi.

SOUTH AMERICA> MEXICO> Mexico City

Ron Bacardi Administration Building, S.A., 1958
Office building. Del Cedro, Mexico City, Mexico. The design of this project was prompted by the unstable conditions in Cuba that later led to Fidel Castro's overthrow of the Fulgencio Basta government and to the cancellation of Mies's earlier Bacardi project in Santiago. It is a steel-framed volume with a curtain wall, the whole supported on a columnar grid.

Unbuilt Projects

Concrete Office Building, 1922
Unbuilt project. Office buildings. Non-predetermined location. The significance of the design resides in its use of continuous ribbon windows where the glass is set well back so that the parapet takes on a sculptural solidity.

Concrete Country House, 1923
Unbuilt project. House. Possible location was on a Mies site, purchased later by Mr. Arbercht a potential costumer. It was studied in a plaster model and one perspective drawing.

Court Houses, 1930s
Unbuilt project. House and Miscellaneous.

House on a Terrace, 1934
There is no information about it existence. House.

Glass House on a Hillside, 1934
Unbuilt project. House.

50 X 50 House, 1950-1952
Unbuilt project. Housing prototype. Mies claimed to have conceived the 50X50 house as a solution to the problem of mass housing, a genre of architecture to which he had never paid serious attention in the past.

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