Mies van der Rohe
Subtitle: a critical biography
By: Franz Schulze and Edward Windhorst
Contributors: Windhorst, Edward
Edition: New and revised edition.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226756004
Subjects: Architects; Biography; Modern Architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Youth in imperial Germany: 1886-1905; title: Apprenticeship, marriage, and world war: 1905-18; title: Europe out of the ashes: 1918-26; title: Weimar at high tide: 1926-30; title: Political crises and the end of the Bauhaus: 1930-36; title: America beckons: 1936-38; title: Architect and educator: 1938-46; title: A new architectural language: 1946-53; title: The 1940s; title: The Farnsworth saga: 1946-55; title: American apogee: residential work 1950-59; title: American apogee: commercial and institutional work: 1950-59; title: Worldwide practice: the 1960s; title: Was less less? the 1960s; title: Recessional: 1962-69; title: Appendix A: protégés; title: Appendix B: Mies's career in publication and exhibitions.