According to Google (always a reliable source), today would have been the 126th birthday of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Hooray. I'll bake a cake. No other 20th century architect has had as much influence as him with regard to the look of buildings in modern cities. For all intents and purposes he invented the glass skyscraper and the glass and concrete suburban office building. All architects respect and adore him. Unlike Corbusier, Mies did not seem to have the bent for social engineering that corrupted so many of the modernists. His art was pure, occasionally practical, buildable, and often inhuman.
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