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Contents:<br/>xii List of Illustrations --<br/>xiii Acknowledgments --<br/>xv Preface --<br/>xvii List of Buildings and Projects --<br/>3 Aachen: Youth in Imperial Germany, 1886 – 1905 --<br/>20 Berlin: Problems of a New Century, 1905 18 --<br/>83 Europe out of the Ashes: Response to the Modernist Challenge, 1919 25 --<br/>131 Weimer at the Flood, 1925 29 --<br/>174 Depression, Collectivization, and the Crisis of Art, 1929 36 --<br/>205 Departure and Flight, 1936 38 --<br/>218 Revival: Modernism without Utopia, 1938 49 --<br/>239 America: The Triumph of Steel and Glass, 1949 58 --<br/>284 Recessional, 1958 69 --<br/>327 Notes --<br/>345 Selected Bibliography --<br/>349 Index –<br/>Illustrations – <br/>1 Interior of the Palatine Chapel, Aachen 4 --<br/>2 Cathedral and Münsterplatz, Aachen 6 --<br/>3 Kapuzinergraben with main Post Office at right, Aachen 8 --<br/>4 Town Hall, Aachen 9 --<br/>5 Mayor's study in Town Hall, Aachen 10 --<br/>6 Mies's parents 11 --<br/>7 Facade of the Riehl House, Neubabelsberg 24 --<br/>8 Riehl House from slope leading to Griebnitzsee 25 --<br/>9 Bruno Paul: Westend House, Berlin 26 --<br/>10 Mies at Riehl House 27 --<br/>11 Halle of the Riehl House 28 --<br/>12 Bruno Paul, Dining room at the exhibition Das Deutsche Kunstgewerbe, Dresden 29 --<br/>13 Dining nook and plan of the Riehl House 29 --<br/>14 Peter Behrens, main pavilion at the Northwest German Art Exhibition, Oldenburg 34 --<br/>15 Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin 37 --<br/>16 Walter Gropius, Faguswerk, Alfeld an der Leine 40 --<br/>17 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Royal Guard House, Berlin 42 --<br/>18 Schinkel, Schauspielhaus, Berlin 43 --<br/>19 Schinkel, Altes Museum, Berlin 44 --<br/>20 Schinkel, Kaufhaus project, Berlin 44 --<br/>21 Schinkel, Bauakademie, Berlin 45 --<br/>22 Schinkel, Cathedral over a City 46 --<br/>23 Schinkel, Kasino of Schloss Glienicke, Potsdam 47 --<br/>24 Schinkel, Charlottenhof, Potsdam 48 --<br/>25 Schinkel, Charlottenhof, Gardener's Cottage, Potsdam 49 --<br/>26 Exterior and elevation of the Bismarck monument project, Bingerbrück-Bingen, 1910 50 --<br/>27 Bismarck monument project from the festival field 50 --<br/>28 Schinkel, Schloss Orianda project intended for the Crimea 51 --<br/>29 Behrens, Wiegand House, Berlin 52 --<br/>30 Behrens, Plan of the Wiegand House 53 --<br/>31 Perls House, Berlin 55 --<br/>32 Plan of the Perls House 55 --<br/>33 Alcove in the Riehl House showing radiator mantle 56 --<br/>34 Interior of the Perls House, with murals by Max Pechstein 57 --<br/>35 Behrens, German Embassy, St. Petersburg 57 --<br/>36 Sketch of the vestibule of the German Embassy, St. Petersburg 58 --<br/>37 Behrens, perspective of the Kröller-Müller house project, Wassenaar 59 --<br/>38 Mies, model of the Kröller-Müller house project 60 --<br/>39 Mies, perspective of the Kröller-Müller house project 62 --<br/>40 Mies, mock-up of the Kröller-Müller house project 63 --<br/>41 Hendrik Berlage, model of the Kröller-Müller house project 64 --<br/>42 Berlage, exterior of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange 66 --<br/>43 Berlage, interior of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange 67 --<br/>44 Bruno Taut, interior staircase of the House of Glass, Cologne 69 --<br/>45 Mies 70 --<br/>46 Ada Bruhn 71 --<br/>47 Ada Bruhn 71 --<br/>48 Perspective of the Werner House 72 --<br/>49 Garden facade of the Werner House, Berlin 73 --<br/>50 Dining room of the Werner House, with Mies's furniture 74 --<br/>51 Perspective drawing of House of the Architect, Werder, near Berlin 76 --<br/>52 Street facade of the Urbig House 78 --<br/>53 View of the Urbig House from the garden 78 --<br/>54 Drawing room of the Urbig House 79 --<br/>55 Schinkel, Schloss Tegel, Potsdam 80 --<br/>56 Taut, The Crystal Mountain 86 --<br/>57 Taut, The Valley as a Blossom 87 --<br/>58 Elevation and plan of Mies's atelier apartment, Am Karlsbad 24, Berlin 95 --<br/>59 Ada Mies 96 --<br/>60 Marianne, Dorothea, and Waltraut 97 --<br/>61 Ada with the children, Marianne, Waltraut, and Dorothea, Montana, Switzerland 97 --<br/>62 Perspective of the Friedrichstrasse Office Building project, Berlin 98 --<br/>63 Plan of the Friedrichstrasse Office Building 99 --<br/>64 Model of the Glass Skyscraper project, Berlin 102 --<br/>65 Plan of the Glass Skyscraper 103 --<br/>66 Preliminary sketch of the plan for the Glass Skyscraper 103 --<br/>67 Perspective of the Concrete Office Building 107 --<br/>68 Frank Lloyd Wright, general office interior of the Larkin Administration Building, Buffalo 109 --<br/>69 Perspective of the Concrete Country House 110 --<br/>70 Model of the Concrete Country House from the street 110 --<br/>71 Model of the Concrete Country House from the garden side 111 --<br/>72 El Lissitzky, Proun Space 112 --<br/>73 Perspective and plan of the Brick Country House 114 --<br/>74 Theo van Doesburg, Rhythm of a Russian Dance 115 --<br/>75 Perspective of Haus K. 120 --<br/>76 Mosler House, Neubabelsberg 121 --<br/>77 Wolf House, Guben 124 --<br/>78 Patio of the Wolf House 125 --<br/>79 Liebknecht-Luxemburg Monument, Berlin 126 --<br/>80 Dedication ceremony for the Liebknecht-Luxemburg Monument 127 --<br/>81 Model of original plan for the Weissenhof housing project, Stuttgart 133 --<br/>82 Aerial view of the Weissenhof housing project 136 --<br/>83 Mies and Le Corbusier, Stuttgart 137 --<br/>84 Gustav Stotz, Le Corbusier, and Mies, Stuttgart 137 --<br/>85 "Arab Village," a tricked-up anonymous photograph of the Weissenhof housing project —137 --<br/>86 Apartment House, Weissenhof 138 --<br/>87 MR Chair 141 --<br/>88 The Glass Room, Stuttgart 142 --<br/>89 Street facade of the Hermann Lange House, Krefeld 144 --<br/>90 Street facade of the Josef Esters House, Krefeld 145 --<br/>91 View of the Esters House, from the garden 146 --<br/>92 Mies working on a drawing of the Esters house 147 --<br/>93 Perspective with collage of the Adam Building project, Berlin 148 --<br/>94 Collage of the Stuttgart Bank project 149 --<br/>95 Aerial view and perspective with collage of the Alexanderplatz project, Berlin 150 --<br/>96 Perspective with collage of the Alexanderplatz 150 --<br/>97 Perspective with collage of the Friedrichstrasse Office Building project 2, Berlin 151 --<br/>98 Aerial view of the International Exposition, Barcelona 153 --<br/>99 View of the Barcelona Pavilion from the street 154 –<br/>100 Barcelona Pavilion, with interior space in distance 155 --<br/>101 Secondary preliminary scheme of the plan for the Barcelona Pavilion 156 --<br/>102 View toward Georg Kolbe sculpture, Evening, in the small pool of the Barcelona Pavilion 157 --<br/>103 Small pool with sculpture in the Barcelona Pavilion 158 --<br/>104 Interior of the Barcelona Pavilion 159 --<br/>105 Barcelona Chair 160 --<br/>106 Mies, in a top hat, at the opening ceremony for the Barcelona Exposition 161 --<br/>107 Departure of the King and Queen of Spain from Barcelona Exposition's opening ceremony 162 --<br/>108 Street facade of the Tugendhat House, Brno 163 --<br/>109 View of the Tugendhat House from the garden 163 --<br/>110 Interior of the Tugendhat House looking toward the winter garden 164 --<br/>111 Interior of the Tugendhat House looking toward the dining area 165 --<br/>112 Plan of the upper and lower floors of the Tugendhat House 166 --<br/>113 Window of the Tugendhat House with electrically retractable panes 167 --<br/>114 Drawing of the exterior staircase of the Tugendhat House 168 --<br/>115 Tugendhat Chair 168 --<br/>116 Brno Chair 169 --<br/>117 X table 171 --<br/>118 Mies with students at Bauhaus, Dessau 176 --<br/>119 Perspective drawing for the remodeling project of the interior of Schinkel's Neue Wache, Berlin 179 --<br/>120 View of the hall of the Berlin Building Exposition House, with the house by Mies 181 --<br/>121 Preliminary plan of the house for Berlin Building Exposition House 182 --<br/>122 Drawing of Mies by Emil Orlik 184 --<br/>123 Perspective drawing of the Gericke House project, Berlin 189 --<br/>124 Plan of the Gericke House 190 --<br/>125 Perspective of a row house project with an interior court, from living room drawing 191 --<br/>126 Plan and elevation of the House with Three Courts project 191 --<br/>127 Plan of the Court House with Curved Wall Elements project (Court House with Garage) 192 --<br/>128 Perspective of the Hubbe House project, Magdeburg 193 --<br/>129 Elevation of the Ulrich Lange House project, Krefeld 194 --<br/>130 Elevation of the Reichsbank project, Berlin 196 --<br/>131 Plan of the Reichsbank, top story 196 --<br/>132 Three wings of the Reichsbank 197 --<br/>133 Lilly Reich, at Lugano 198 --<br/>134 Mies and Lilly Reich on an excursion boat on the Wannsee 199 --<br/>135 Elevation of the main entrance of the German Pavilion project for the 1935 Brussels World's Fair 200 --<br/>136 Interior perspective of the German Pavilion 201 --<br/>137 Sheet of sketches for the German Pavilion 201 --<br/>138 Mies and unidentified colleagues in Brussels 202 --<br/>139 Exhibition of glass half-cylinders showing the latest in German technology at the Deutsches Volk/Deutsche Arbeit Exposition 203 --<br/>140 Mies and Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin 211 --<br/>141 Model of the Resor House project, Jackson Hole, Wyoming 213 --<br/>142 Georgia van der Rohe 216 --<br/>143 Early preliminary plan of the IIT campus, Chicago 222 --<br/>144 Montage showing a later preliminary plan of the IIT campus 223 --<br/>145 IIT campus 224 --<br/>146 IIT campus 225 --<br/>147 IIT campus 225 --<br/>148 Minerals and Metals Research Building, IIT 226 --<br/>149 Corner detail of Alumni Memorial Hall, IIT 227 --<br/>150 Library and Administration Building project, IIT 228 --<br/>151 Plan of the Library, IIT 229 --<br/>152 Perspective of the Museum for a Small City project 230 --<br/>153 Collage of Concert Hall project 231 --<br/>154 Erich Mendelsohn, Walter Peterhans, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and Mies 232 --<br/>155 Mies and Lora Marx at a New Year's Eve party 234 --<br/>156 Drawing of Conchoidal Chair 237 --<br/>157 Promontory Apartments, Chicago 240 --<br/>158 Perspective of Promontory Apartments as planned with steel facade 241 --<br/>159 Herbert Greenwald and Mies 241 --<br/>160 860–880 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 242 --<br/>161 Canopy connection of 860–880 Lake Shore Drive 244 --<br/>162 Site plan of 860–880 Lake Shore Drive 245 --<br/>163 Facade of Commonwealth Apartments, Chicago 246 --<br/>164 Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois 254 --<br/>165 Plan of the Farnsworth House 255 --<br/>166 Interior of the Farnsworth House 255 --<br/>167 Farnsworth House, with Peter Palumbo on the terrace 257 --<br/>168 Edith Farnsworth 258 --<br/>169 50 by 50 House project 260 --<br/>170 Plan of the 50 by 50 House 260 --<br/>171 Crown Hall, IIT 262 --<br/>172 Interior of Crown Hall with students 263 --<br/>173 Mannheim National Theater project 265 --<br/>174 Convention Hall project, Chicago 266 --<br/>175 Plan of the Convention Hall 267 --<br/>176 Collage showing the interior of the Convention Hall with a crowd 268 --<br/>177 Mies studying model of Convention Hall 269 --<br/>178 Staircase of the Arts Club of Chicago 271 --<br/>179 Mies, Philip Johnson, and Phyllis Bronfman Lambert 273 --<br/>180 Seagram Building, New York 274 --<br/>181 Entrance to the Seagram Building, with canopy in the foreground 276 --<br/>182 Seagram Building, with eastern extension 278 --<br/>183 Plan of the Seagram Building 279 --<br/>184 Model of the Seagram Building with Mies's sculpture 280 --<br/>185 Philip Johnson, Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut 282 --<br/>186 Chapel, IIT — 286 --<br/>187 Mies and Harry Weese at the Graham Foundation 288 --<br/>188 Ewald Mies and Mies at Miesville, Wisconsin 290 --<br/>189 Waltraut Mies van der Rohe and Mies, Chicago 290 --<br/>190 Mies at Epidaurus 291 --<br/>191 Mies at Epidaurus 292 --<br/>192 Mies at the Acropolis, looking toward Erechtheum, Athens 292 --<br/>193 Mies and Lora Marx at Nafplion 293 --<br/>194 Mies's sister Maria and Marianne Lohan 293 --<br/>195 Ewald Mies and Mies at the Schlosshotel Guelpen, Holland 294 --<br/>196 Model of the Lafayette Park Housing project, Detroit 295 --<br/>197 Residential tower and row house of Lafayette Park 295 --<br/>198 View of the plaza in Dominion Centre, Toronto 297 --<br/>199 Interior of the bank in Dominion Centre 299 --<br/>200 "Six Master Paintings, Two Glasses, One Sculpture," installation by Mies of exhibition, Cullinan Hall, 20 March–15 April 1963 300 --<br/>201 Model of the Bacardi Office Building project, Santiago, Cuba 302 --<br/>202 Collage showing the interior of the Bacardi Office Building 303 --<br/>203 Model of the Schaefer Museum project, Schweinfurt 304 --<br/>204 National Gallery, Berlin 306 --<br/>205 Main hall of the National Gallery 307 --<br/>206 Exterior detail of the National Gallery 308 --<br/>207 Mies at the groundbreaking ceremony of the National Gallery 308 --<br/>208 Raising the roof of the National Gallery 309 --<br/>209 Mies at the raising of the National Gallery's roof 310 --<br/>210 Henry Moore and Mies at the Berlin National Gallery 310 --<br/>211 Mies in conversation with Stephan Waetzoldt, with Dirk Lohan in the background, Berlin 311 --<br/>212 Mies receiving Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon B. Johnson, Washington, D.C. 312 --<br/>213 Mies in his apartment with painting by Paul Klee and sculpture by Pablo Picasso 314 --<br/>214 Four generations: Mies with Marianne Lohan, Dirk Lohan, and Dirk's children, Caroline and Lars 315 --<br/>215 Mies revisiting IIT, surrounded by students and colleagues 315 --<br/>216 Mies revisiting IIT, surrounded by students and colleagues 316 --<br/>217 Mies reading Bauen seit 1900 in Berlin 317 --<br/>218 Model of the Mansion House Square project, London 318 --<br/>219 Mies memorial service at IIT, 1968 323 --<br/> <br/><br/> |