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Tables of Contents for The Presence of Mies
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
New Mies
23
10
Detlef Mertins
Practice
Punching Through the Clouds: Notes on the Place of the Toronto. Dominion Centre in the North American Oeuvre of Mies
33
16
Phyllis Lambert
Mies's Skyscraper ``Project'': Towards the Redemption of Technical Structure
49
22
Detlef Mertins
Technology
A World in itself: Architecture and Technology
71
14
Fritz Neumeyer
Mies and Movement: Military Logistics and Molecular Regimes
85
14
Sanford Kwinter
Reworkings
The Receding Horizon of Mies: Work of the Cranbrook Architecture Studio
99
20
Dan Hoffman
Renouncing Autistic Words
119
14
Ben Nicholson
Minimalism
The Grid, the /Cloud/, and the Detail
133
16
Rosalind Krauss
Mies van der Rohe and Minimalism
149
10
Ignasi de Sola-Morales Rubio
Openings
Looking for ``The Public'' in Mies vander Rohe's Concept for the Toronto-Dominion Centre
159
20
George Baird
Almost Nothing: Heidegger and Mies
179
14
Rebecca Comay
Images
Mies Not
193
30
Beatriz Colomina
What's so Funny: Modern Jokes and Modern Architecture
223
12
Brian Boigon
Afterword
Odysseus and the Oarsmen, or, Mies's Abstraction Once Again
235
15
K. Michael Hays
Toronto-Dominion Centre
250