Two bricks together
In 1925, cloth and textile manufacturer Erich Wolf commissioned German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to design a house in Guben, Poland on a site chosen for its elevation and location between two gardens. A series of cuboid forms, it was generally considered Mies van der Rohe’s first step into modernism and a pioneering work of the era and modernist movement.
The house was destroyed during WWII, about 20 years after it was built, but its notable characteristics remained a key influence in modernist architecture and a distinct parallel can be drawn between its concept and the central Christchurch home of recently
