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What did Ludwig Mies van der Rohe do first in his career?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe worked in his father's stone carving shop and at several local design firms.
What design firms did Ludwig Mies van der Rohe work for?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe joined the office of interior designer Bruno Paul.
What did Ludwig Mies van der Rohe create there?
What was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's biggest project?
Did Ludwig Mies van der Rohe do anything aside from work for the design firms and his father?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe served as construction manager of the Embassy of the German Empire in Saint Petersburg under Behrens.
What was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's style like?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created his own twentieth-century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity.

Question: Did he have any inspiration or influence?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have any inspiration or influence?