The work of Mies van Der Rohe. Image of technology and semantics of transparency

Mies reached the result he set out to achieve because he presented the centrality of the technical problem within the question of meaning and poetry; steel support, therefore, had its expressive quality distinct from structural value. This interpretation was already introduced in 1957 by E.N. Rogers in the fifth lesson of the ’56/’57 Academic Year course, held at the Politecnico di Milano. Rogers claimed that Mies’ poetics had deep roots. In 1910, the young Mies, who identified himself with the De Stijl movement, met «Wright’s most important magnetic influence», as Mies himself wrote in 1940. This meeting, according to Rogers, has been scarcely studied.