Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German architect.Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, are widely regarded as the pioneering masters of Modern architecture. Mies, like many of his post World War I contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created an influential twentieth century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces. He strived towards an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of free-flowing open space. He called his buildings “skin and bones” architecture. He sought a rational approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design. He is often associated with the aphorisms “less is more” and “God is in the details”.

Born               :    Ludwig Mies March 27, 1886  Aachen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire

Died               :  August 17, 1969 (aged 83) Chicago, Illinois, USA

Nationality  :     German 1886-1944/American 1944-1969

Awards        :   Order Pour le Mérite (1959)

                            Royal Gold Medal (1959)

                            AIA Gold Medal (1960)

                            Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963)
Buildings :    Barcelona Pavilion, Tugendhat House, Crown Hall, Farnsworth House, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive, Seagram Building, New National Gallery, Toronto-Dominion Centre, Westmount Square

Today Google celebrate his 126 th birthday with Google doodles. Google design a Google doodles like a building.

 

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe List of works

A memorial to the Spartacist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, commissioned by Eduard Fuchs, president of the German Communist Party in Germany designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, built by Wilhelm Pieck, and inaugurated on 13 June 1926, later destroyed by the Nazis

Canada

  • Toronto-Dominion Centre – Office Tower Complex, Toronto
  • Westmount Square – Office & Residential Tower Complex, Westmount
  • Nuns’ Island – 3 Residential towers and a filling station (closed), Montreal (c.1969)

Czech Republic

  • Tugendhat House – Residential Home, Brno

Germany

  • Riehl House – Residential Home, Potsdam (1907)
  • Perl House – Residential Home, Zehlendorf (1911)
  • Werner House – Residential Home, Zehlendorf (1913)
  • Urbig House – Residential Home, Potsdam (1917)
  • Kempner House – Residential Home, Charlottenburg (1922)
  • Eichstaedt House – Residential Home, Wannsee (1922)
  • Feldmann House – Residential Home, Wilmersdorf (1922)
  • Mosler House – Residential Home, Babelsberg (1926)
  • Weissenhof Estate – Housing Exhibition coordinated by Mies and with a contribution by him, Stuttgart (1927)
  • Lemke House – Residential Home, Weissensee (1932)
  • Haus Lange/Haus Ester – Residential Home and an art museum, Krefeld
  • New National Gallery – Modern Art Museum, Berlin

Mexico

  • Bacardi Office Building – Office Building, Mexico City

Spain

  • Barcelona Pavilion – World’s Fair Pavilion, Barcelona

United States

  • Cullinan Hall – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • The Promontory Apartments – Residential Apartment Complex, Chicago
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library – District of Columbia Public Library, Washington, D.C.
  • Richard King Mellon Hall of Science – Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA (1968)
  • IBM Plaza – Office Tower, Chicago
  • Meredith Hall – College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
  • Lake Shore Drive Apartments – Residential Apartment Towers, Chicago
  • Seagram Building – Office Tower, New York City (1958)
  • Crown Hall – College of Architecture, and other buildings, at the Illinois Institute of Technology (1956)
  • University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration – Chicago, IL (1965)
  • Farnsworth House – Residential Home, Plano, Illinois (1946)
  • Chicago Federal Center
  • Dirksen Federal Building – Office Tower, Chicago
  • Kluczynski Federal Building – Office Tower, Chicago
  • United States Post Office Loop Station – General Post Office, Chicago
  • One Illinois Center – Office Tower, Chicago
  • One Charles Center – Office Tower, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Highfield House Condominium | 4000 North Charles – Condominium Apartments, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments – Residential Apartment Complex, Newark, New Jersey (1959)
  • Lafayette Park – Residential Apartment Complex, Detroit, Michigan (1963).
  • Commonwealth Promenade Apartments – Residential Apartment Complex, Chicago (1957
  • Caroline Weiss Law Building, Cullinan Hall (1958) and Brown Pavilion (1974) additions, Museum of Fine Art, Houston
  • Richard King Mellon Building (1968) at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
  • American Life Building – Louisville, Kentucky (1973; completed after Mies’s death by Bruno Conterato)

 
  • You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs.  All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy.  Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.  ~Cindy Crawford

  • I refuse to think of them as chin hairs.  I think of them as stray eyebrows.  ~Janette Barber

  • The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.  ~Colleen McCullough

  • There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.  ~Sylvia Plath,The Bell Jarwomen-21[4]

  • I am woman!  I am invincible!  I am pooped!  ~Author Unknown

  • If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose.  An entire garment industry would be devastated.  ~Author Unknown

  • Having a bottom is living with the enemy.  Not only do they spend their lives slowly inflating, they flirt with men while we’re looking the other way.  ~Coupling, “Her Best Friend’s Bottom,” original airdate 17 September 2001, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally

  • I got a postcard from my gynecologist.  It said, “Did you know it’s time for your annual check-up?”  No, but now my mailman does.  ~Cathy Ladman

  • I want a man who’s kind and understanding.  Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?  ~Zsa Zsa Gabor

  • I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.  ~Bella Abzug

  • Woman’s Rule of Thumb:  If it has tires or testicles, you’re going to have trouble with it.  ~Author Unknown

  • Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.  ~James Thurber, Time, 15 August 1960

  • I really don’t think I need buns of steel.  I’d be happy with buns of cinnamon.  ~Ellen DeGeneres

  • The chief excitement in a woman’s life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.  ~Helen Rowland

  • Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.  ~Timothy LearyHappy-Womens-Day-cards

  • I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.  ~Jennifer Yane

  • Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.  ~Faith Whittlesey

  • No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.  ~Henry Kissinger

  • Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.  ~Joseph Conrad

  • Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.  ~Robert Byrne

  • Can you imagine a world without men?  No crime and lots of happy fat women.  ~Attributed to both Marion Smith and Nicole Hollander

  • I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we’re subjected monthly.  Maybe that’s why men declare war – because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.  ~Brett Butler

  • Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other.  Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.  ~Katherine Hepburn

  • Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.  ~Author Unknown

  • I keep trying to lose weight… but it keeps finding me!  ~Author Unknown

  • Don’t cook.  Don’t clean.  No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum – “My God, the floor’s immaculate.  Lie down, you hot bitch.”  ~Joan Rivers

  • Women may be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake whole relationships.  ~James Shubert

  • Three wise men – are you serious?  ~Author Unknown

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  • Home cooking:  where many a man thinks his wife is.  ~Author Unknown

  • Not tonight honey, wait ’til I’m a size 6.  ~Susan Reinhardt, title of book

  • The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.  ~Author Unknown

  • You have to have the kind of body that doesn’t need a girdle in order to get to pose in one.  ~Carolyn Kenmore

  • If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information:  french-fried potatoes are out.  ~Jean Kerr

  • A lot of guys think the larger a woman’s breasts are, the less intelligent she is.  I don’t think it works like that.  I think it’s the opposite.  I think the larger a woman’s breasts are, the less intelligent the men become.  ~Anita Wise

  • My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four.  Unless there are three other people.  ~Orson Welles

  • A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.  ~Irina Dunn, 1970, commonly misattributed to Gloria Steinem who had quoted Dunn

  • Sure God created man before woman.  But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece.  ~Author Unknown

  • Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.  ~Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard

  • Some men are so macho they’ll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.  ~Maureen Murphy

  • Behind every successful woman… is a substantial amount of coffee.  ~Stephanie Piro

  • I’ve decided that perhaps I’m bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.  ~Paula Poundstone

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  • Where do you go to get anorexia?  ~Shelley Winters

  • There are much easier things in life than finding a good man.  Nailing Jell-O to a tree, for instance.  ~Author Unknown

  • The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.  ~Natalie Wood

  • Buying something on sale is a very special feeling.  In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me.  I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it.  I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money?  ~Rita Rudner

  • Don’t accept rides from strange men – and remember that all men are as strange as hell.  ~Robin Morgan

  • Forget love – I’d rather fall in chocolate!  ~Attributed to Sandra J. Dykes

  • Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.  Coincidence?  I think not!  ~Author Unknown

  • If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.  Kate Moss?  Well, she would have been the paintbrush.  ~Dawn French

  • The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.  ~Dave Barry

  • Who ever thought up the word “Mammogram?”  Every time I hear it, I think I’m supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.  ~Jan King

  • The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it.  The second time you look to see if the basement has termites.  It’s the same with men.  ~Lupe Velez

  • The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.  ~Peggy Ryan

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  • Sometimes I think if there was a third sex men wouldn’t get so much as a glance from me.  ~Amanda Vail

  • You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.  But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.  ~Marie Stopes

  • A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.  ~Carrie Snow

  • The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.  ~Author Unknown

  • Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.  Luckily, this is not difficult.  ~Charlotte Whitton

  • I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades.  I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds.  By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.  ~Erma Bombeck

  • The old theory was “Marry an older man, because they’re more mature.”  But the new theory is:  “Men don’t mature.  Marry a younger one.”  ~Rita Rudner

  • Men get laid, but women get screwed.  ~Quentin Crisp

  • Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?  ~Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970

  • Women get the last word in every argument.  Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.  ~Author Unknownwomen-3[4]


 

Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor, film producer, and aviator noted for his sensational escape acts. He was also a skeptic who set out to expose frauds purporting to be supernatural phenomena.He was one of six children and the son of Rabbi Mayer Weisz and his second wife, Cecilia Steiner. In 1876, Mayer Weisz immigrated to the United States with the dream of a better life. He found work as a rabbi and changed his last name to Weiss. In 1876, the remainder of the family joined him in the United States.

The family moved to Milwaukee when Ehrich was eight years old. During his early years, Ehrich sold newspapers and shined shoes to help support the family. On October 28, 1883, nine year old Ehrich made his first appearance on stage, performing a trapeze act. He billed himself, “Ehrich, the Prince of the Air.” At 12, Ehrich hopped a freight car and ran away from home. A year later her returned to New York and continued to help support his family by working as a messenger, necktie cutter, and photography assistant. Nothing is known of his year away from his family.

About this time, Ehrich and his brother Theo began to pursue an interest in magic. As a stage name, Ehrich Weiss became Harry Houdini by adding an ìiî to the last name of his idol, French magician Robert Houdin. Harry is simply an Americanized version of his nickname, Ehrie. At 17, Ehrich, now known as Harry Houdini, left his family to pursue his magic career. By the age of twenty, Harry had been performing small acts throughout New York. He soon married and joined a circus where he began to develop and perfect his escape tricks.

Through the years, Houdini gained fame after repeatedly escaping from police handcuffs and jails. Harry was even given certificates from various wardens for escaping from their prisons. After making his name in America, Harry toured Europe, where he expanded his repertoire by escaping from straitjackets and coffins. Eventually, Harry was able to accomplish his dream of having a full show dedicated to his magic.
In his later years, Harry took his talent to the film arena, where he both acted and started his own film laboratory called The Film Development Corporation. Years later, Harry would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In addition, Harry showed interest in the field of aviation and was the first person to ever fly over Australian soil.
In the 1920s, Harry became interested in the occult, specifically in debunking mediums and psychics. His training in magic helped him expose frauds that scientists and academics could not. He chronicled his time investigating the occult in his book, A Magician Among the Spirits.
In 1926 Houdini died as a result of a ruptured appendix, after suffering a blow to the abdomen by university student J. Gordon Whitehead. Houdini refused to seek medical help and continued to travel, eventually succumbing to periotonitis on October 24, 1926 at the age of 52.houdini11-hp

Last year Google honor his 137 th Birth Day Celebration through a special doodle featuring the magician with handcuffs and chains . We also expecting the same for his  138 th Birth Day Celebration also….


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