Gericke House Project, Berlin-Wannsee, Germany (Perspective of garden)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
1932
A delicate pencil drawing on illustration board in which Mies van der Rohe sketches a perspective view of a low, rectilinear house and its garden to work out spatial relationships and precise geometry for the residential design.
You notice the economy of the faint, confident lines: a broad, empty lawn bounded by trees and a long horizontal building, with a single small figure providing human scale and focusing attention on the measured openness between architecture and landscape.
The sheet exemplifies Mies’s ‘less is more’ approach and the International Style’s move toward purified geometry, transparency, and a new domestic modernity that blurs interior and exterior space.
Medium
Pencil on illustration board
Dimensions
19 x 26 1/2" (48.2 x 67.3 cm)
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Department
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect
Accession
697.1963
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