TY - BOOK AU - Cohen,Jim-Louis AU - Mies van der Rohe,Ludwig TI - Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe: Jim Lewis-Cohen. SN - 9783764349605 AV - NA1088.M65 C6513 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Switzerland PB - Birkhauser KW - Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig KW - Modern Movemet (Architecture) KW - Local KW - International style (Architecture) N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p.182-187) and index; 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 -- ER -