Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27 1886 – August 17 1969)

He was a German Architect who was broadly viewed as one of the original masters of modern architecture. Mies, like many of his post WW1 generations, pursued to form a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created an influential Twentieth-Century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces. He strived toward architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of free-flowing open space. He called his buildings “skin and bones” architecture. He pursued a balanced method that would guide the creative process of architectural design, and is known for his use of the aphorisms “less is more” and “God is in the details.”