Five theoretical projects in glass, concrete and brick

In the early years of the Weimar Republic, after taking the name Mies van der Rohe, he developed a number of technically and spatially radical projects. His two glass office towers, one planned on Berlin's Friedrichstraße and the other on an abstract site, heralded a new crystalline architecture for the metropolis, while his concrete office building project was a laconic response to the expectations of post-war managers. The concrete and brick country houses maintain a dialogue with the research of radical artists, notably those grouped around the Berlin magazine G.