Stump the German

[Eva Elisabeth]

Kudos, Bill, you stumped me that much that I'll skip the 2nd part of the question.
It was actually the first ceremony, and it was Lyndon B. Johnson who chose "with great care by himself" who received the medal on December 6, 1963. Here's a transcript:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=26165

Maria Ludwig Michael Mies van der Rohe (1886 - 1969) was one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture and is often associated with his quotation of "less is more".
   
From 1930 until 1933 he was the last director of the Bauhaus art school which was closed under pressure from the Nazi regime. When the Nazis rejected his style as not "German" in character, he left Germany reluctantly in 1937 as he saw his opportunity for any future building commissions vanish, and accepted an offer to head the department of architecture of the newly established Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago.

Three of his buildings in Illinois (all in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places) are:
- Crown Hall:
   
...which is the home of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago;
- Farnsworth House (1945-51):
   
...a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting south of the city of Plano, Illinois. The house was commissioned by Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a prominent Chicago nephrologist, as a place where she could engage in her hobbies: playing the violin, translating poetry, and enjoying nature; and
- 860–880 Lake Shore Drive (1949-51):
   
...a twin pair of glass-and-steel apartment towers on N. Lake Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago.

Mies also designed modern furniture pieces that have become popular classics, such as the Barcelona chair (1929, left), and the cantilever cane chair (1927):
       
This finally is the house in Aachen where he was born (in Steinkaulstr. 29):
   
For further info, please go here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe