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Googls is celebreating 126th birthday of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, regarded as the father of modern architecture. Celeberation goes with 27th doodle of March 2012 on homepage.
Mies was a german born American architect who is remembered for a series of masterpiece work in architecture. He was born on March 27, 1886 and his work include the McCormick House in Illinois, Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Seagram Building in New York City, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago and Farnsworth House in Plano and the 
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His talent was first recognized in 1937 when he had to rush back to America as according to Germans his work included non-German symbols. At that time he was serving as the head of Architect department at Illinois Institute of Technology.
In Google doodle, the building of College of Architecture at Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology building is shown. Basic composition of the building consists of glass, steel pans as shown on doodle. This construction of building started in 1950 and ended in 1956. Though it was constructed a long time ago upon the idea conceived by Meis, yet it holds the glory for the 20th Century Modernist movement of architecture designs.
All the work Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ever did, is a master piece and his absence is felt even more since he is no longer with us. May his soul rest in heavens!
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