Mies VAN DER ROHE, lights and shadows of the father of the modern architecture.

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During a flight to West Berlin, on the way to the foundation stone ceremony of the National Gallery, famous architect Mies van der Rohe talks about and takes stock of his precarious life with his grandson, Dirk Lohan, also an architect. They reminisce periods of upheaval in the twentieth century, projects, clients, business partners, adversaries, friends and lovers… In short, a life marked by an ambition to build. But above all else, there are piercing memories of one thing that Mies has always kept a secret and cannot forget.

• 2019 is the 50^th anniversary of Mies Van der Rohe death
• Considered the best architect of the XX century, his private life was far from exemplary
• Director of the Bauhaus school until its closure under pressure from the Nazi regime
• His career ambition took him to support Hitler and to abandon his friends and family