Editing Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (section)

==Death and legacy==
[[File:Mies van der Rohe headstone.JPG|thumb|Mies van der Rohe's grave marker in [[Graceland Cemetery]]]]
In 1961, a program at Columbia University's School of Architecture celebrated the four great founders of contemporary architecture: Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. It included addresses by Le Corbusier and Gropius as well as an interview with Mies van der Rohe. Discussion focused upon philosophies of design, aspects of their various architectural projects, and the juncture of architecture and city planning.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu/document.php?id=ldpd_4072675 |title= Architecture project : oral history, 1949-1961 |website= oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu |oclc= 122512756 |access-date= February 25, 2022}}</ref>

In 1963, he was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Bruce Wetterau |title=The Presidential Medal of Freedom : winners and their achievements |date=1996 |publisher=Congressional Quarterly Inc. |isbn=1568021283}}</ref> In 1966 [[Robert Venturi]] coined the postmodern motto "less is a bore" as countervision to Mies's motto "less is more".<ref>{{cite book | author1= Christian Parreno |title=Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience |publisher= Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2021 |page=65 |isbn= 9781350148147 }}</ref>

Technological advances in the manufacturing of [[architectural glass]] generated renewed interest in Mies's 1922 designs for a high-rise block on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin. Mies's Farnsworth House in Plano Illinois became a recurrent theme in 20th century architecture because it resembled a glass house. Technological limits meant that Mies's vision for a "skin and bones" architecture, where the steel frame was exposed internally and externally could never be fully realized.<ref>{{cite book | editor1= Andrea Deplazes |title= Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures |publisher= Birkhäuser Basel |year=2005 |page= 116 |isbn= 9783764371906 }}</ref> Mies also inspired the [[minimalism]] movement which fused [[Japanese architecture]] with [[Zen garden]]s.<ref>{{cite book | author1= James Stevens Curl | author2= Susan Wilson |title= The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture |publisher= Oxford University Press |year=2015 |page= 488 |isbn= 9780199674985 }}</ref>

Mies van der Rohe died on August 17, 1969, from [[esophageal cancer]] caused by his smoking habit.<ref>{{Cite book| title=Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition| last=Schulze| publisher=University of Chicago Press| pages=189}}</ref>  After cremation,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schulze |first1=Franz |last2=Windhorst |first2=Edward |title=Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn=9780226756004 |page=397 |edition=New and revised |chapter=Recessional: 1962–69}}</ref> his ashes were buried near Chicago's other famous architects in [[Chicago]]'s [[Graceland Cemetery]]. His grave is marked by an intentionally unadorned, clean-line black slab of polished granite.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Mies van der Rohe Dies at 83; Leader of Modern Architecture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0327.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 17, 1969 |access-date=July 21, 2007 }}</ref>

While Mies van der Rohe's work had enormous influence and critical recognition, his approach failed to sustain a creative force as a style after his death. By the 1980s, Mies' style was eclipsed by a new wave of [[modern architecture|modernism]] and [[Postmodernism|post-modernism]]. This new style of architecture is evident in the buildings designed by [[Kevin Roche]], one of Mies' students at IIT in Chicago.