Mies / Detlef Mertins

By: Mertins, Detlef, 1954-2011Material type: TextTextLanguage: English London ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press, 2015©2014 Edition: Reprinted: 2015Description: 543 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 32 cmContent type: text | still Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0714839620 (hardback)Subject(s): Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 | Architecture, Modern -- 20th centuryLOC classification: NA1088.M65 M47 2015
Contents:
Critical realism: life and form. Apprenticeship in reform ; Riehl House: country house critical realism ; Bismarck Memorial: form and space ; Kröller-Müller Villa: living geometry -- Avant-garde: art and life. Glass skyscraper: new beginnings ; Good forms for new types ; Esters and Lange houses: new language ; Weissenhofseidlung: urban montage -- Task: mastering modernity. Barcelona Pavilion: spiritualizing technology ; Tugendhat House: an elevated personal life ; Neue Wache: in the world and against it ; Bauhaus education ; Reichsbank: in dark times -- Organic architecture. Resor House: autonomy ; AIT/IIT: open campus ; IIT: clear construction -- Unfolding structure. Farnsworth to Crown Hall: clear span ; 860-880 Lake Shore Drive: high rise ; Seagram Building: dark building ; 50 x 50 House to New National Gallery: variations and permutations ; Lafayette Park: city landscape -- Event space: living life large
Summary: "Arranged in chronological order, the book's five sections and its conclusion offer a synthetic portrait of Mies's career and reception, spanning sixty years, two continents and two world wars. The text tells a continuous story, however, most chapters focus on a significant work (the Seagram building or the IIT campus), allowing for an in-depth presentation of photographs and drawings; other chapters focus on a specific event in Mies's life (such Mies's time as the head of the Bauhaus)."--publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 506-528) and index.

Critical realism: life and form. Apprenticeship in reform ; Riehl House: country house critical realism ; Bismarck Memorial: form and space ; Kröller-Müller Villa: living geometry -- Avant-garde: art and life. Glass skyscraper: new beginnings ; Good forms for new types ; Esters and Lange houses: new language ; Weissenhofseidlung: urban montage -- Task: mastering modernity. Barcelona Pavilion: spiritualizing technology ; Tugendhat House: an elevated personal life ; Neue Wache: in the world and against it ; Bauhaus education ; Reichsbank: in dark times -- Organic architecture. Resor House: autonomy ; AIT/IIT: open campus ; IIT: clear construction -- Unfolding structure. Farnsworth to Crown Hall: clear span ; 860-880 Lake Shore Drive: high rise ; Seagram Building: dark building ; 50 x 50 House to New National Gallery: variations and permutations ; Lafayette Park: city landscape -- Event space: living life large

"Arranged in chronological order, the book's five sections and its conclusion offer a synthetic portrait of Mies's career and reception, spanning sixty years, two continents and two world wars. The text tells a continuous story, however, most chapters focus on a significant work (the Seagram building or the IIT campus), allowing for an in-depth presentation of photographs and drawings; other chapters focus on a specific event in Mies's life (such Mies's time as the head of the Bauhaus)."--publisher.

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