Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: A re-evaluation of the entire body of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's American work. Considerably more than a catalogue to the exhibition it accompanies, this major study provides a professional biography, the study of an architect's career...read more

Product Description: Mies van der Rohe ranks alongside Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier as one of the most influential and important architects of our century. He was not only an accomplished and groundbreaking architect but also a first-rate, long-term lecturer and organiser of architectural events...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Das in Downtown Chicago gelegene Federal Center wurde von Mies 1959-64 errichtet: ein 30-stöckiges und ein 42-stöckiges Hochhaus sowie der Flachbau für das Postamt. Mies konnte bei diesem Grossauftrag Stahl, sein bevorzugtes Material, vollumfänglich einsetzen...read more

Product Description: Especially in recent years, the significance of Mies van der Rohe, a German-born American architect, is being reaffirmed, motivating Birkhauser to make the original work available again to a larger readership. This new English/German edition has been supplemented to include additional bibliographic and biographic information...read more

Product Description: With all of the attention Mies van der Rohe has received over the last few years, it's hard to believe that there could be a pair of "undiscovered" buildings begging for even the slightest considerationand receiving none. Such has been the fate, however, of Mies's Krefeld Villas, a pair of neighboring brickresidences of typically restrained elegance built from 1927 to 1930...read more

Product Description: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who emigrated to the US in 1938, was one of the foremost architects of the 20th century. His work includes the German pavillion for the International Exhibition at Barcelona, for which he designed his famous Barcelona chair and the steel and glass Seagram Building in New York, built with Philip Johnson...read more

Product Description: The Presence of Mies is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that reconsiders the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, putting forth new ways of thinking about his work and new possibilities for extending its influence into contemporary architecture and cultural theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)