Jim Lewis-Cohen Cohen,Jim-Louis creator Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 1886-1969 text 2007 2nd and updates ed. monographic eng spa

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191 p. ill. (some col) ; ports. ; plans ; 25cm. Contents: Preface 6 -- 1 Childhood in the Rhineland and Early Days in Berlin 1886-1914 10 -- Impressions from Aachen 11 -- Peter Behrens and the Architecture of Industry 17 -- The Kröller Müller Project 22 -- 2 Theoretical Projects for the Metropolis 1918-24 26 -- The Friedrichstraße Skyscraper 27 -- G and the Concrete Office Building 34 -- The Concrete Country House 36 -- The Brick Country House 38 -- 3 Foundations of a New Domestic Space 1925-30 44 -- Mies and Weimar Politics 45 -- Two Houses in Krefeld 56 -- The Barcelona Feat 64 -- Luxury at the Tugendhats 72 -- 4 From The Bauhaus to the Third Reich 1930-56 84 -- Mies and the National Socialists 90 -- 5 Chicago and American Paradigms 1938-56 98 -- Mies and the Illinois Institute of Technology 99 -- The Farnsworth House 99 -- Crown Hall 110 -- Lake Shore Drive The Steel Towers 125 -- 6 Industrial Classicism 1956-69 140 -- The Seagram Stele 141 -- The Skyscraper Variation 146 -- Return to Berlin The Neue Nationalgalerie 160 -- The Poetics of Modernization 165 -- Notes 168 -- Biography 176 -- Principal Projects 179 -- Bibliography 182 -- Index of Persons and Projects 188 -- Illustration Credits 191 -- Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p.182-187) and index Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Criticism and interpretation Modern Movemet (Architecture) International style (Architecture) NA1088.M65 C6513 2007 9783764349605 10376437960-X 2007922264 pucpr 062310 20260827173803.0 eng