Mies Van Der Rohe (1886-1969) became its director, moving it to Berlin

before political pressures forced it to close in 1933. In his architecture

and furniture he made a clear and elegant statement of the International

Style, so much so that his work had enormous influence on modern

architecture. Taking his motto "less is more" and calling his architecture

"skin and bones," his aesthetic was already fully formed in the model for

a glass skyscraper office building he concieved in 1921.

Working with glass provided him with new freedom and many new

possiblities. In the glass model, three irreguarly shaped towers flow

outward from a central court. The perimeter walls are wholly transparent,

the regular horizontal patterning of the cantilevered floor panes and

their thin vertical supporting elements. The weblike delicacy of the lines

of the glass model, its radiance, and the illusion of movement created by

reflection and by light changes seen through it prefigure many of the

glass skyscrapers of major cities thro

identical. It was therefore the workshops task to provide for those needs

1923, was the first house he had ever designed. It is an extraordinary

house that could be assembled simply from steel panels.

in the most definitive and economic way.

The Bauhaus Manifesto was to unite the teaching of fine art, applied art

context was the use of the flat roof; the pitched roof was seen in

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