Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Last director of the Bauhaus before the Nazis closed it, and the author of the steel-and-glass idiom that became corporate architecture worldwide. 'Less is more' was a working method rather than a slogan: the Barcelona Pavilion is almost nothing but planes, and it is the more precise for it.

• Lived: 1886 CE – 1969 CE
• Nationality: german
• Roles: architect