In what year was the architect whom Y.C. Wong studied under at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago born?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ] ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname. Along with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture.
Phillip Brooks Maher Phillip Brooks Maher (1894-1981) was an American architect. Born in Kenilworth, Illinois in 1894, he was the son and later the partner of George Washington Maher, who was an important figure in the Prairie School movement. In 1914, Phillip Maher went to work in his father’s architecture practice. He then studied architecture at the University of Michigan, was in the army and later traveled in Europe before rejoining his father’s practice as a partner in 1921.