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Meis van der Rohe’s unique minimalist style was influenced by his times and by his German mentors of The Bauhaus movement which focuses on the personal history of Meis within the frame of the weimer Republic and his association with it, the Bauhaus movement and particular elements of his furniture design including metal, chrome, leather, tufting, open frame, and other materials. jvVdrRoh.rtf
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writes, "embraced the machine aesthetic which focused on design and material choices that were appropriate for mass production. Designers were led to experiment with materials and carefully scrutinized their designs
for manufacturability and efficiency, often more so than for aesthetics." Events in Personal History Shaping Ideas
Born Maria Ludwig Michael Meis in 1886 in Aachen, Germany, Meis took his mothers surname and changed his name to Meis van der Rohe after he became an architect
and designer of furniture. He was significantly influenced by the world events occurring around him, and called himself a member of the Weimar Republic, the German movement toward fascism based
on Marxist theories prior to, and then running parallel to, the rise of Hitler resulting in the fall of the Weimer Republic. Rohe was very involved in the politics of
the time, paying for the publication of Gestaltung ("Organization") magazine in 1924. The student will want to note that Marxist theories promoted
the careful use of resources. As Meis put it, good architecture was interested in bringing man, design and nature together in a minimalist approach to resource use. Meis was most
interested in minimizing the costs and form of his designs in support of the ideals of the Bauhaus movement, but he was also interested in more of an aesthetic than
many of his Bauhaus colleagues, which is why he became focused on certain aesthetics in his glass, metal frames and spare geometric shapes that his competitors ignored completely.
Influences Ginn writes that The Bauhaus movement was started in 1919 by Walter Gropius who built
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