Mies in America
By: edited by Phyllis Lambert ; essays by Werner Oechslin ... [et al.] ; photographs by Guido Guidi and Richard Pare.
Contributors: Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.; Lambert, Phyllis.; Oechslin, Werner.; Centre canadien d'architecture.; Whitney Museum of American Art.; Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: H.N. Abrams
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 791
Subjects: Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, -- 1886-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation; Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, -- 1886-1969 -- Catalogs; International style (Architecture) -- United States
Genres: Catalogs.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

One colored, folded chart in back pocket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.