Mies in America

LAMBERT, Phyllis (editor) - Mies van der Rohe

ISBN 10: 0920785697 / ISBN 13: 9780920785690

Published by Canadian Centre for Architecture, Whitney Museum of American Art and Harry N. Abrams, Montreal and New York, 2001

About this Item

First edition. Softcover. 791 pages. Massive monograph published in connection with a traveling show that started in New York at the Whitney and ran June 21 through September 23, 2001 and then went to Montreal and Chicago for additional dates. Essays by Werner Oechslin, Vivian Endicott Barnett, Cammie McAtee, Phyllis Lambert, Detlef Mertins, Sarah Whiting, K. Michael Hays, Peter Eisenman, and Rem Koolhaas. Photographs by Guido Guidi and Richard Pare. Includes a total of 630 illustrations with 118 of them in color. A clean near fine copy in French style wrappers with a crease to the rear flap, some other minor wear, and with the insert present and some other laid in related ephemera. Please note that this is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mies in America
• Publisher: Canadian Centre for Architecture, Whitney Museum of American Art and Harry N. Abrams, Montreal and New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0920785697
• ISBN 13: 9780920785690
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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.