(1886 – 1969) His phrase “Less is More” epitomized the International Style. His buildings expressed twentieth-century industrial society through skin-and-bones construction. Before emigrating to the US, he worked for Peter Behrens, then Germany’s leading architect, and became associated with the Deutscher Werkbund and director of the Bauhaus from 1930 until it closed in 1933. He was appointed director of the School of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1937. Among his most famous works are the German Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona Exposition and the Seagram Building in New York City (1958), designed with Philip Johnson. His style influenced the American skyscraper throughout the twentieth century.