He started out in his family's stone-carving business before coming to work with Bruno Paul and then Peter Behrens before opening his own firm.  
He started out in his family's stone-carving business before coming to work with Bruno Paul and then Peter Behrens before opening his own firm.  His work in Europe included the Tugendhat House in the Czech Republic as well as the Weissenhof apartments and Berlin's New National Gallery.  He went on to design the German Pavillion at the Barcelona exposition during his time as director of the Bauhaus.  FTP, name this designer of the Seagram Building, an architect whose motto was "Less is More."
He started out in his family's stone-carving business before coming to work with Bruno Paul and then Peter Behrens before opening his own firm.  
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe