Example sentences for: mies

How can you use “mies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Architecture aficionados won’t want to miss one last sight on Montjuïc: the Pabelló Mies van der Rohe, a pavilion built for the 1929 International Expo by the seminal minimalist.

  • Westmount Square gives you a sharp but not inelegant jolt back into the 20th century, with the black steel and glass office buildings of Mies van der Rohe.

  • This city has pioneered two landscape-alterating methods of construction (the balloon frame and the skyscraper), fostered two distinct schools of design, and nurtured talents such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

  • Architects Walter Gropius, Mies Van der Rohe, and Marcel Breuer, along with artists Paul Klee, Vasili Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy attempted to integrate arts, crafts, and architecture into mass industrial society.

  • Even though Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson's landmark building has inspired a host of ugly imitations (including the Martin Luther King Memorial Library in Washington, D.C.--also designed by Mies--which essentially is the Seagram Building knocked on its side), Chatterbox has a strong attachment to the Seagram Building.


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