In the U.S., he became head of the department of architecture at the newly-
established Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, introducing a new
kind of education that would become known as the Second School
of Chicago, with works such as Farnsworth House
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, the Seagram
Building and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Mies continued to
refine his vision of a monumental “skin and bones” architecture. He sought
to create free and open spaces, enclosed within a structural order with
minimal presence.
German Pavilion in Barcelona
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