ABSTRACT
Many architects in the past established their reputations well before they had produced any buildings of note. Seen as “paper architects” who produce a visionary architecture, their drawings remain forever trapped in a two-dimensional phase of visible non-existence. Such a visionary was a young Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose series of five large charcoal drawings, drafted between 1921 and 1923 and exhibited throughout postFirst World War Germany, not only projected his prophetic vision of a new architecture, but established him in the public’s mind as a leader of the modern movement.
