Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
'A bit of a bastard': Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in his Chicago apartment in 1964. Photograph: Werner Blaser Werner Blaser/PR
Weissenhofsiedlung
1925 - 1927
Weissenhoff y sus integrantes
Weissenhoff y sus integrantes
”Less is more"
Ludwig Van der Rohe
Set on a hill overlooking Stuttgart, Germany, these twenty-one houses and apartment buildings comprise one of the most celebrated communal endeavors in the history of modern architecture. The ultimate success of the Weissenhofsiedlung owes much to the artistic director, Mies van der Rohe, whose strategy was to invite a group of the most famous European architects to design individual buildings in conformity with a plan that he designed.
House 1-4
"I don't want to be interesting, I want to be good"
Ludwig Van der Rohe
Rooms Required: House 1-4:
Lower floor: storerooms, central hot-water heating system, street-level shop
Ground floor, first floor,
second floor: 24 apartments, some with one large and one small room, some with two or three rooms and some with four rooms all having, in addition, a kitchen, bathroom and WC
Top floor: roof gardens, laundry and drying rooms, storerooms
The skeleton structure enabled Mies to achieve his objective (and declared principle) of designing flexible ground plans for his apartments. The only fixed points in his design (as determined by the service installations) were the kitchen, the bathroom and the toilet. The remaining areas had adjustable walls, allowing residents to subdivide them as they saw fit. Mies said that he had chosen this design to accommodate people's changing needs, their expectations concerning apartments and their related desire for maximum freedom in designing their own interiors.
