Gericke House Project, Berlin-Wannsee, Germany, Interior perspective,
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
1932
A pencil-on-illustration-board interior perspective by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe that seeks to present a glass-walled, open-plan living pavilion where structure is reduced to slender supports and planes.
You notice the economy of faint, precise perspective lines and spare sketching—delicate furniture and swaying garden outlines float behind a long horizontal plane, giving a sense of transparent, airy space.
The drawing expresses Mies’s modernist experiment in minimal structure and the seamless interior–exterior relationship that helped define the International Style and reshape twentieth-century domestic architecture.
Medium
Pencil on illustration board
Dimensions
19 x 26 1/2" (48.3 x 67.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect
Accession
703.1963
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