Brick Country House, project, Potsdam-Neubabelsberg, Plan
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
1964
An architectural plan rendered in ink on illustration board for a proposed Brick Country House, where Mies van der Rohe pares building to its essential lines and spatial relationships.
A quiet, almost surgical composition: a small, precise cluster of thin gray walls and hatched elements sits near the upper-right, while two long, perfectly straight axes run to the sheet’s edges, leaving the rest of the page a vast, luminous white field.
The drawing crystallizes Mies’s late modernist aim—reducing architecture to rigorous order and elegant simplicity—and treats the plan as an abstract, compositional object that influenced minimalist architecture and architectural drawing practice.
Medium
Ink on illustration board
Dimensions
30 x 40" (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect
Accession
998.1965
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