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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe helped his father on various construction sites but didn’t receive any formal architectural training. Mies’s first commission, a suburban house, so impressed architect Peter Behrens that he offered the 21-year-old a job. Through Behrens, Mies made significant contacts that would later lead to academic roles and large-scale projects.

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