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Mies van der Rohe

By Jean Louis Cohen

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The career and built works of this enigmatic and fascinating architect are carefully charted from his early work on housing design and high-rise offices in Berlin to his later and most famous work in Chicago, Detroit, Montreal and New York. Original illustrations from the architect's archives complement the excellent text.
Spon's ARCHITECTURE COLLECTION presents the work of historic and contemporary masters of architecture in clear well-illustrated text, accessible to non-specialists. This appealing series of monographs, now available in English, is launched by books on two great historic figures of the century, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe and two award-winning contemporary architects, Sir Norman Foster and Alvaro Siza.

Table of Contents

Mies today. The First buildings in Berlin (1908-14). Theoretical projects for Megalopolis (1918-24). Foundations of a new domestic space (1925-30). Fromthe Bauhaus to the Third Reich (1930-38). Chicago and American forms (1938-56). The classicism of industrial order (1956-69). Biography. Bibliography. List of principal works. Index.