Mies is credited with designing two museums during his lifetime: the Neue Nationalgalerie, in Berlin, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Crucially, he did not design the entire MFA – the original building was conceived in 1924 by William Ward Watkin. But Mies did devise the plans for the characteristically prismatic Brown Pavillion, and the 6,800-square-foot Cullinan Hall, a glass giant that sits on the edge of the lawn of the MFA.
For more on the man himself, check out our brief history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Father of 'less is more' architecture.
