Germany: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the founders of the International Style of architecture. He was forced by the Nazis to close the avant–garde Bauhaus architecture and design school in Berlin which he headed, which had been founded in 1919 in Weimer by architect/designer Walter Gropius.
Mies van der Rohe moved to the USA in 1937, and became head of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Later, in 1958 he would design the 38–story gold glass Seagram Building on Park Avenue in NY: Like the 24–story blue–green glass Lever Brothers Building icon across the street; (designed by Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) and the 39–story UN Secretariat Headquarters Building (designed by Walter Gropius lead architect / Le Corbusier design scheme 23a); several blocks south at water’s edge, the Seagram Building would somewhat define seminal glass box International Style, “skin and glass” modern architecture.
“Mies” also left some signature aphorisms about design for posterity –
“Less is more”
“God is in the details”