Mies in Europe: the slow history of the Krefeld Houses

A talk by Philip Boyle

Tuesday 21st June, 1900

At The Gallery, and live streamed

Attendees at The Gallery are welcome to join us from 1830 for a glass of wine.

Watch video of the event here

The Haus Lange and Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany (1927-30) are Mies’ earliest surviving built Modern Movement work. Completed a couple of years after his Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht Monument to the Revolution, and overshadowed by the fame of his Barcelona Pavillion and the Tugendhat House, the qualities of the Krefeld houses have been largely overlooked. It is only since the 1980s with Wolf Tegethoff’s book Mies van der Rohe: The Villas and Country Houses that they have been more fully appreciated.

This talk will explore Mies’ design process, the problems he encountered, and the lessons he took from these projects to his later more famous work.