“Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the greatest architects of modernism. For his rise he needed the women. With her film ‘The Mies van der Rohes’ the Swiss director Sabine Gisiger has drawn a portrait of twentieth-century mores from a female perspective and handed this icon of architecture a posthumous lesson.” NZZ, Philipp Meier, 3 March 2023, our translation.

“The documentary proves how light-footed cultural history with a feminist twist can be. It is a different view of the past. It is no accident the word is history, his story. What interests me is her story.” (Sabine Gisiger) SRF 2, Tagesschau Kultur, Selim Petersen, 1 March 2023, our translation.

“He lived during the most turbulent years of the twentieth century. […] Using films, photos and documents, the documentary reconstructs the image of a celebrated architect from the female perspective.” AFFR, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, 2023