Born in Aachen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe initially trained as a builder and later worked as a draftsman of stucco ornaments for a local architecturial office.
In 1905, he moved to Berlin and studied under Bruno Paul, designing his first building in 1907. In 1908, Mies joined Peter Behrens` architectural practice, staying there until 1911.
In 1919, he joined the revolutionary Novembergruppe, promoting Modernism through his architectural proposales. In 1926, he was made vice-president of the Deutscher Werkbund an a year later, organiesed the Stuttgart Exhibition. He designed the German pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona Exhibition and the Tugendhat house, Brno, Czechoslovakia, between 1929 an 1930.
In 1930, he became the last director of the Bauhaus. In 1938, he emigrated to America and took up a teaching post at the Armour Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in Chicago.
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