Square small 4to. Black cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 791pp. Extensive illustrations (some color), large foldout chart in rear pocket. Fine/fine. Absolutely pristine first edition of this mammoth study featuring nine heavily illustrated essays by that many van der Rohe scholars. One of the definitive works on this influential German-born American modernist architect and furniture designer (1886-1969). A superlative copy.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Mies in America

Publisher

Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York

Publication Date

2001

Language

English

ISBN 10

0810967286

ISBN 13

9780810967281

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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.

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 f�r 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 and a professor at Harvard University.

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