Resor House Project, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 588 sketches
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
1938
A graphite sketch on tracing paper by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of hundreds of studies probing designs for the Resor House in Jackson Hole as he worked toward a spare, modern mountain house.
What strikes you is the economy and confidence of the lines—faint, repeated overlays of plans, rooflines, and elevations on translucent paper that suggest structure and space more than finished detail.
The sheet shows Mies’s method of thinking through drawing: iterative, reductive exploration on tracing paper that helped define his austere modernism and shaped postwar residential architecture in the United States.
Medium
Graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions
8 1/2 x 13" (20.3 x 33 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect
Accession
265.1979
Art Terms
Exhibitions
