Editing Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (section)

==Educator==
[[File:Farnsworth House by Mies Van Der Rohe - interior-3.jpg|thumb|right|Interior of Farnsworth House]]
In 1953 the ''House Beautiful'' editor [[Elizabeth Gordon (editor)|Elizabeth Gordon]] published an editorial under the title "The Threat to the Next America". In it, she criticized Mies's Villa Tugendhat as cold, barren design and dismissed Mies as European Architect.<ref>{{cite book | editor1=Angela Person | editor2=Luca Guido | editor3= Stephanie Pilat | title=Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture | publisher= University of Oklahoma Press | year=2020 | page=177 & 180 | isbn=9780806166391 }}</ref>

Mies served as the last director of Bauhaus, and then headed the department of architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he developed the Second Chicago School. He played a significant role as an educator, believing his architectural language could be learned, then applied to design any type of modern building. He set up a new education at the department of architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, replacing the traditional [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Ecole des Beaux-Art]] curriculum with a three-step-education beginning with crafts of drawing and construction leading to planning skills and finishing with theory of architecture. He worked personally and intensively on [[prototype]] solutions, and then allowed his students, both in school and his office, to develop derivative solutions for specific projects under his guidance.

Mies placed great importance on education of architects who could carry on his design principles. He devoted a great deal of time and effort leading the architecture program at Illinois Institute of Technology. 

Mies served on the initial Advisory Board of the [[Graham Foundation]] in Chicago. His own work as architect focused on intensive personal involvement in design efforts to create prototype solutions for building types.