Verseidag Administration Building, Krefeld, Germany, Interior perspective, looking northeast

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · 1937-1938

You're looking at Verseidag Administration Building, Krefeld, Germany, Interior perspective, looking northeast — a work by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, nineteen thirty-seven to nineteen thirty-eight. The piece is pencil on illustration board, about 0.7 by 1 meters. Measured, it is among the most saturated surfaces in this museum — 40 where the typical work sits at 11. You can pick out the architectural plan.

Medium Pencil on illustration board · Dimensions 28 5/8 x 40 1/8" (72.7 x 101.9 cm) · Credit Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect

Hanging beside it in Gallery 511: Column Cover for the German Pavilion, International Exposition, Barcelona, Spain

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company, project, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Isometric plan of model J900, Biotecture, American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company project, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Axonometric), American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company project (Exterior perspective of model A101), Slow House Project, North Haven, New York (Plan of lower-level and sections), Oxygen House Project (Plan)

More by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe here: Tugendhat House, Brno, Czech Republic (Scale model of final version, 1:30), Column Cover for the German Pavilion, International Exposition, Barcelona, Spain