Silk Administration Building project, Krefeld, Germany (Perspective of front elevation)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
1938
A pencil perspective on illustration board by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe showing a proposed Silk Administration Building in Krefeld, intended to convey the modernist clarity, geometric order, and corporate monumentality of a headquarters design.
It marks an important moment in the development of the International Style and Mies’s spare steel-and-glass vocabulary, helping to shape mid‑20th‑century office architecture and the transition of European modernism into American practice.
Medium
Pencil on illustration board
Dimensions
28 5/8 x 40 1/8" (72.7 x 101.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
255.1986
Art Terms
Exhibitions
