02967nam a2200385Ia 4500 pucpr 20220901132556.0 021411s2005 nyua b 000 0 eng 1568985037 59.00 9781568985039 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET NA7593.K74 L54 2005 22 728.8/092 Kleinman, Kent 1956- 242490 Mies van der Rohe : the Krefeld villas. / Kent Kleinman and Leslie Van Duzer. txt New York : Princeton Architectural Press , 2005. 143 p. ill.; col.; plans.; 26 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Include Bibliography Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Notes on Almost Nothing -- Klein’s Kleine Kammer -- LeWitt and the Art of Introductions -- Serra and the Anti-Environment -- Windows and Other Weaknesses -- Conclusion: Architecture, Acting -- Notes -- Appendix: Drawings -- Credits -- With all of the attention Mies van der Rohe has received over the last few years, it's hard to believe that there could be a pair of "undiscovered" buildings begging for even the slightest consideration and receiving none. Such has been the fate, however, of Mies's Krefeld Villas, a pair of neighboring brick residences of typically restrained elegance built from 1927 to 1930. Their anonymity is, to some degree, Mies's own doing; in 1959, in his only public comment about the projects, he quipped that he would have preferred to use more glass, but the clients objected. "I had great trouble," he said. As historians Kent Kleinman and Leslie van Duzer show in this carefully researched, eminently readable study, sometimes it's best not to take the architect at his word. Here they guide us through the two villas, which were converted into a joined museum of contemporary art after World War II. Each chapter begins with a study of an artist who has created a site-specific installation within the villas. By analyzing how Yves Klein, Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, and Ernst Caramelle chose to engage Mies's architecture, they arrive at a truly original understanding of these two forgotten masterworks. Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 1886-1969 Criticism and interpretation. 253733 Local Museum Haus Lange Krefeld. 256715 Local Museum Haus Esters. 256714 Local Architecture Domestic Germany Krefeld. 54087 Local Architecture Germany Krefeld 20th century. 54081 Local Villas Germany Krefeld. 288417 Local Krefeld (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc. 243231 Local Van Duzer, Leslie 1958- 287145 Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 1886-1969. 253733 lcc 6 NA7593.K74 General L54 2005 220747 220747 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2011-01-28 Amazon 23.64 461689 0 General NA7593.K74 L54 2005 91000000020024 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 33.64 2011-01-28 6