MIES IN AMERICA

Lambert, Phyllis (editor)

ISBN 10: 0920785697 / ISBN 13: 9780920785690

Published by Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 2001

About this Item

791 pages in excellent condition. With 630 illustrations, 118 in full colour. A folding Building Chronology 1937-69 is in a sleeve at back of the book. Illustrated softcovers with black titles. Two corners lightly creased. Slight crease down the front cover, near the spine. Scarce book. VG+ **heavy - may require extra postage** Size: 10 x 10.

Seller Inventory # 213793

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MIES IN AMERICA
• Publisher: Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
• Publication Date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0920785697
• ISBN 13: 9780920785690
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: VG+
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture
  • Americana

About this title

Synopsis

This major study of one of the 20th century's greatest architects reevaluates the entire body of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's work in America. Based on considerable new research and bringing to light previously unstudied material-drawings and collages, photographs, project documents, and oral histories-Mies in America presents fresh, original, and corrective interpretations of the architect's achievements. The book includes nine essays that together offer a portrait of Mies's evolution as an artist. Packed with more than 550 illustrations, the book looks beyond Mies's most famous architectural triumphs, from the IIT campus in Chicago to the Seagram Building in New York, to probe the relationship between a seminal body of work and its cultural context.

About the Author

Phyllis Lambert, an architect, is founding director and chair of the board of trustees of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. Werner Oechslin is a professor at the Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur in Zurich. Detlef Mertins is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Peter Eisenman is an internationally acclaimed architect. Rem Koolhaas is the winner of the 2000 Pritzker Architecture Prize. K. Michael Hays is adjunct curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and a professor at Harvard University.