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
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9780226756004
Subjects: Architects; Biography; Modern Architecture
Description: This comprehensive biography tells the compelling story of how Mies and his students and followers created some of the most significant buildings of the twentieth century. It traces Mies's European career in its progression to avant-garde modernism, where his work was materially rich but of modest scale, to his second maturity and world renown in the United States, where he invented a new architectural language of "objective" structural expression. Reveals new information about his relationships with women, and gives voice to dozens of architects who knew and worked with (and sometimes against) Mies-- many of them from the unique oral history collection of the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of 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.