Author: Lambert, Phyllis, Werner Oechslin, Vivian Endicott Barnett, et al.
Title: Mies in America
Description: Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2001. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with stamped lettering. Dust jacket with the title in white on a black spine. 791 pp. BW and some color illustrations. "This study of one of the 20th century's greatest architects re-evaluates the entire body of work undertaken by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between his emigration to America in 1938 and his death in 1969. Based on considerable new research and bringing to light previously unstudied material - drawings and collages, photographs, project documents, letters, and extensive interviews with many of those who worked with Mies - this is the first study to make full and in-depth use of available archival material. Its nine essays, distinct in style of argumentation, focus, and ambition, constitute a new interpretation of a major figure in architectural history." "Mies in America offers readers a deeper immersion into Mies's thought than has been attempted before. Venturing a more complex response than the familiar reading of Mies as a grand master of modernism, these essays retrace the genesis of Mies's design in order to uncover his ambitions, investigate the implicit outlines of the Miesian city, follow the process of designing for America, and look at Mies as a touchstone for contemporary practice."--Jacket. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker to dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on half-title page. Stamp on last page. Stamp on top and bottom text blocks.
Keywords: European Architecture, Mies Van Der Rohe ; Van Der Rohe, Mies ; ; Architects and Firms - European
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Title: Mies in America
Description: Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2001. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with stamped lettering. Dust jacket with the title in white on a black spine. 791 pp. BW and some color illustrations. "This study of one of the 20th century's greatest architects re-evaluates the entire body of work undertaken by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between his emigration to America in 1938 and his death in 1969. Based on considerable new research and bringing to light previously unstudied material - drawings and collages, photographs, project documents, letters, and extensive interviews with many of those who worked with Mies - this is the first study to make full and in-depth use of available archival material. Its nine essays, distinct in style of argumentation, focus, and ambition, constitute a new interpretation of a major figure in architectural history." "Mies in America offers readers a deeper immersion into Mies's thought than has been attempted before. Venturing a more complex response than the familiar reading of Mies as a grand master of modernism, these essays retrace the genesis of Mies's design in order to uncover his ambitions, investigate the implicit outlines of the Miesian city, follow the process of designing for America, and look at Mies as a touchstone for contemporary practice."--Jacket. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker to dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on half-title page. Stamp on last page. Stamp on top and bottom text blocks.
Keywords: European Architecture, Mies Van Der Rohe ; Van Der Rohe, Mies ; ; Architects and Firms - European
Price: US$ 100.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 171995
- Book number: 171995
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