Mies van der Rohe and the Poetry of Purpose LIFE celebrates a visionary who said of his stark, gorgeous designs: "Romantics don't like my buildings. They say they are cold and rigid. But we do not build for fun. We build for a purpose."

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Six Fascinating Facts About the Future of Religion If God is in the details, as famed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe liked to say, then a new study by the Pew Research Center shows that he or she is also in the demographics. Christianity is now the world’s largest religion, with 2.2 billion adh Read more ... erents as of 2010, representing nearly a third of the world’s population. Islam is a somewhat distant second, with 1.6 billion followers (or 23 percent of the population as of 2010). The Pew researchers forecast that, with the exception of Buddhists, every major religious group will grow over the next 35 years, but Islam will grow faster than any other faith.

Six Fascinating Facts About the Future of Religion If God is in the details, as famed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe liked to say, then a new study by the Pew Research Center shows that he or she is also in the demographics. Christianity is now the world’s largest religion, with 2.2 billion adh Read more ... erents as of 2010, representing nearly a third of the world’s population. Islam is a somewhat distant second, with 1.6 billion followers (or 23 percent of the population as of 2010). The Pew researchers forecast that, with the exception of Buddhists, every major religious group will grow over the next 35 years, but Islam will grow faster than any other faith.

Hate Your Soulless Office Tower? Blame The Seagram Building Mies van der Rohe's famed New York City skyscraper is the mid-century modernist equivalent of the gigantic hit record.

Hate Your Soulless Office Tower? Blame The Seagram Building Mies van der Rohe's famed New York City skyscraper is the mid-century modernist equivalent of the gigantic hit record.