Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper Project, Berlin-Mitte, Germany (Typical floor plan)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
1921
A Vandyke print worked with pencil by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe that lays out a proposed skyscraper floor plan in which three broad, petal‑shaped wings radiate from a compact central core organizing stairs, elevators, and circulation.
What strikes you is the spare, geometric clarity: three triangular ‘petals’ arrayed around a small circular center, drawn in fine pencil on warm sepia paper so the plan reads like a quiet, precise technical diagram.
This 1921 Friedrichstrasse scheme is an early, influential experiment in rational high‑rise planning that prefigures the structural clarity, open planning, and formal restraint that became central to Mies’s modernist work and the international style.
Medium
Vandyke print with pencil
Dimensions
23 1/2 x 25 1/4" (59.7 x 64.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect
Accession
MR20.3
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