Mies van der Rohe : a critical biography /
Franz Schulze in association with the Mies van der Rohe Archive of the Museum of Modern Art.
- xxiii, 355 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 345-348.
Contents: xii List of Illustrations -- xiii Acknowledgments -- xv Preface -- xvii List of Buildings and Projects -- 3 Aachen: Youth in Imperial Germany, 1886 – 1905 -- 20 Berlin: Problems of a New Century, 1905 18 -- 83 Europe out of the Ashes: Response to the Modernist Challenge, 1919 25 -- 131 Weimer at the Flood, 1925 29 -- 174 Depression, Collectivization, and the Crisis of Art, 1929 36 -- 205 Departure and Flight, 1936 38 -- 218 Revival: Modernism without Utopia, 1938 49 -- 239 America: The Triumph of Steel and Glass, 1949 58 -- 284 Recessional, 1958 69 -- 327 Notes -- 345 Selected Bibliography -- 349 Index – Illustrations – 1 Interior of the Palatine Chapel, Aachen 4 -- 2 Cathedral and Münsterplatz, Aachen 6 -- 3 Kapuzinergraben with main Post Office at right, Aachen 8 -- 4 Town Hall, Aachen 9 -- 5 Mayor's study in Town Hall, Aachen 10 -- 6 Mies's parents 11 -- 7 Facade of the Riehl House, Neubabelsberg 24 -- 8 Riehl House from slope leading to Griebnitzsee 25 -- 9 Bruno Paul: Westend House, Berlin 26 -- 10 Mies at Riehl House 27 -- 11 Halle of the Riehl House 28 -- 12 Bruno Paul, Dining room at the exhibition Das Deutsche Kunstgewerbe, Dresden 29 -- 13 Dining nook and plan of the Riehl House 29 -- 14 Peter Behrens, main pavilion at the Northwest German Art Exhibition, Oldenburg 34 -- 15 Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin 37 -- 16 Walter Gropius, Faguswerk, Alfeld an der Leine 40 -- 17 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Royal Guard House, Berlin 42 -- 18 Schinkel, Schauspielhaus, Berlin 43 -- 19 Schinkel, Altes Museum, Berlin 44 -- 20 Schinkel, Kaufhaus project, Berlin 44 -- 21 Schinkel, Bauakademie, Berlin 45 -- 22 Schinkel, Cathedral over a City 46 -- 23 Schinkel, Kasino of Schloss Glienicke, Potsdam 47 -- 24 Schinkel, Charlottenhof, Potsdam 48 -- 25 Schinkel, Charlottenhof, Gardener's Cottage, Potsdam 49 -- 26 Exterior and elevation of the Bismarck monument project, Bingerbrück-Bingen, 1910 50 -- 27 Bismarck monument project from the festival field 50 -- 28 Schinkel, Schloss Orianda project intended for the Crimea 51 -- 29 Behrens, Wiegand House, Berlin 52 -- 30 Behrens, Plan of the Wiegand House 53 -- 31 Perls House, Berlin 55 -- 32 Plan of the Perls House 55 -- 33 Alcove in the Riehl House showing radiator mantle 56 -- 34 Interior of the Perls House, with murals by Max Pechstein 57 -- 35 Behrens, German Embassy, St. Petersburg 57 -- 36 Sketch of the vestibule of the German Embassy, St. Petersburg 58 -- 37 Behrens, perspective of the Kröller-Müller house project, Wassenaar 59 -- 38 Mies, model of the Kröller-Müller house project 60 -- 39 Mies, perspective of the Kröller-Müller house project 62 -- 40 Mies, mock-up of the Kröller-Müller house project 63 -- 41 Hendrik Berlage, model of the Kröller-Müller house project 64 -- 42 Berlage, exterior of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange 66 -- 43 Berlage, interior of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange 67 -- 44 Bruno Taut, interior staircase of the House of Glass, Cologne 69 -- 45 Mies 70 -- 46 Ada Bruhn 71 -- 47 Ada Bruhn 71 -- 48 Perspective of the Werner House 72 -- 49 Garden facade of the Werner House, Berlin 73 -- 50 Dining room of the Werner House, with Mies's furniture 74 -- 51 Perspective drawing of House of the Architect, Werder, near Berlin 76 -- 52 Street facade of the Urbig House 78 -- 53 View of the Urbig House from the garden 78 -- 54 Drawing room of the Urbig House 79 -- 55 Schinkel, Schloss Tegel, Potsdam 80 -- 56 Taut, The Crystal Mountain 86 -- 57 Taut, The Valley as a Blossom 87 -- 58 Elevation and plan of Mies's atelier apartment, Am Karlsbad 24, Berlin 95 -- 59 Ada Mies 96 -- 60 Marianne, Dorothea, and Waltraut 97 -- 61 Ada with the children, Marianne, Waltraut, and Dorothea, Montana, Switzerland 97 -- 62 Perspective of the Friedrichstrasse Office Building project, Berlin 98 -- 63 Plan of the Friedrichstrasse Office Building 99 -- 64 Model of the Glass Skyscraper project, Berlin 102 -- 65 Plan of the Glass Skyscraper 103 -- 66 Preliminary sketch of the plan for the Glass Skyscraper 103 -- 67 Perspective of the Concrete Office Building 107 -- 68 Frank Lloyd Wright, general office interior of the Larkin Administration Building, Buffalo 109 -- 69 Perspective of the Concrete Country House 110 -- 70 Model of the Concrete Country House from the street 110 -- 71 Model of the Concrete Country House from the garden side 111 -- 72 El Lissitzky, Proun Space 112 -- 73 Perspective and plan of the Brick Country House 114 -- 74 Theo van Doesburg, Rhythm of a Russian Dance 115 -- 75 Perspective of Haus K. 120 -- 76 Mosler House, Neubabelsberg 121 -- 77 Wolf House, Guben 124 -- 78 Patio of the Wolf House 125 -- 79 Liebknecht-Luxemburg Monument, Berlin 126 -- 80 Dedication ceremony for the Liebknecht-Luxemburg Monument 127 -- 81 Model of original plan for the Weissenhof housing project, Stuttgart 133 -- 82 Aerial view of the Weissenhof housing project 136 -- 83 Mies and Le Corbusier, Stuttgart 137 -- 84 Gustav Stotz, Le Corbusier, and Mies, Stuttgart 137 -- 85 "Arab Village," a tricked-up anonymous photograph of the Weissenhof housing project —137 -- 86 Apartment House, Weissenhof 138 -- 87 MR Chair 141 -- 88 The Glass Room, Stuttgart 142 -- 89 Street facade of the Hermann Lange House, Krefeld 144 -- 90 Street facade of the Josef Esters House, Krefeld 145 -- 91 View of the Esters House, from the garden 146 -- 92 Mies working on a drawing of the Esters house 147 -- 93 Perspective with collage of the Adam Building project, Berlin 148 -- 94 Collage of the Stuttgart Bank project 149 -- 95 Aerial view and perspective with collage of the Alexanderplatz project, Berlin 150 -- 96 Perspective with collage of the Alexanderplatz 150 -- 97 Perspective with collage of the Friedrichstrasse Office Building project 2, Berlin 151 -- 98 Aerial view of the International Exposition, Barcelona 153 -- 99 View of the Barcelona Pavilion from the street 154 – 100 Barcelona Pavilion, with interior space in distance 155 -- 101 Secondary preliminary scheme of the plan for the Barcelona Pavilion 156 -- 102 View toward Georg Kolbe sculpture, Evening, in the small pool of the Barcelona Pavilion 157 -- 103 Small pool with sculpture in the Barcelona Pavilion 158 -- 104 Interior of the Barcelona Pavilion 159 -- 105 Barcelona Chair 160 -- 106 Mies, in a top hat, at the opening ceremony for the Barcelona Exposition 161 -- 107 Departure of the King and Queen of Spain from Barcelona Exposition's opening ceremony 162 -- 108 Street facade of the Tugendhat House, Brno 163 -- 109 View of the Tugendhat House from the garden 163 -- 110 Interior of the Tugendhat House looking toward the winter garden 164 -- 111 Interior of the Tugendhat House looking toward the dining area 165 -- 112 Plan of the upper and lower floors of the Tugendhat House 166 -- 113 Window of the Tugendhat House with electrically retractable panes 167 -- 114 Drawing of the exterior staircase of the Tugendhat House 168 -- 115 Tugendhat Chair 168 -- 116 Brno Chair 169 -- 117 X table 171 -- 118 Mies with students at Bauhaus, Dessau 176 -- 119 Perspective drawing for the remodeling project of the interior of Schinkel's Neue Wache, Berlin 179 -- 120 View of the hall of the Berlin Building Exposition House, with the house by Mies 181 -- 121 Preliminary plan of the house for Berlin Building Exposition House 182 -- 122 Drawing of Mies by Emil Orlik 184 -- 123 Perspective drawing of the Gericke House project, Berlin 189 -- 124 Plan of the Gericke House 190 -- 125 Perspective of a row house project with an interior court, from living room drawing 191 -- 126 Plan and elevation of the House with Three Courts project 191 -- 127 Plan of the Court House with Curved Wall Elements project (Court House with Garage) 192 -- 128 Perspective of the Hubbe House project, Magdeburg 193 -- 129 Elevation of the Ulrich Lange House project, Krefeld 194 -- 130 Elevation of the Reichsbank project, Berlin 196 -- 131 Plan of the Reichsbank, top story 196 -- 132 Three wings of the Reichsbank 197 -- 133 Lilly Reich, at Lugano 198 -- 134 Mies and Lilly Reich on an excursion boat on the Wannsee 199 -- 135 Elevation of the main entrance of the German Pavilion project for the 1935 Brussels World's Fair 200 -- 136 Interior perspective of the German Pavilion 201 -- 137 Sheet of sketches for the German Pavilion 201 -- 138 Mies and unidentified colleagues in Brussels 202 -- 139 Exhibition of glass half-cylinders showing the latest in German technology at the Deutsches Volk/Deutsche Arbeit Exposition 203 -- 140 Mies and Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin 211 -- 141 Model of the Resor House project, Jackson Hole, Wyoming 213 -- 142 Georgia van der Rohe 216 -- 143 Early preliminary plan of the IIT campus, Chicago 222 -- 144 Montage showing a later preliminary plan of the IIT campus 223 -- 145 IIT campus 224 -- 146 IIT campus 225 -- 147 IIT campus 225 -- 148 Minerals and Metals Research Building, IIT 226 -- 149 Corner detail of Alumni Memorial Hall, IIT 227 -- 150 Library and Administration Building project, IIT 228 -- 151 Plan of the Library, IIT 229 -- 152 Perspective of the Museum for a Small City project 230 -- 153 Collage of Concert Hall project 231 -- 154 Erich Mendelsohn, Walter Peterhans, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and Mies 232 -- 155 Mies and Lora Marx at a New Year's Eve party 234 -- 156 Drawing of Conchoidal Chair 237 -- 157 Promontory Apartments, Chicago 240 -- 158 Perspective of Promontory Apartments as planned with steel facade 241 -- 159 Herbert Greenwald and Mies 241 -- 160 860–880 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 242 -- 161 Canopy connection of 860–880 Lake Shore Drive 244 -- 162 Site plan of 860–880 Lake Shore Drive 245 -- 163 Facade of Commonwealth Apartments, Chicago 246 -- 164 Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois 254 -- 165 Plan of the Farnsworth House 255 -- 166 Interior of the Farnsworth House 255 -- 167 Farnsworth House, with Peter Palumbo on the terrace 257 -- 168 Edith Farnsworth 258 -- 169 50 by 50 House project 260 -- 170 Plan of the 50 by 50 House 260 -- 171 Crown Hall, IIT 262 -- 172 Interior of Crown Hall with students 263 -- 173 Mannheim National Theater project 265 -- 174 Convention Hall project, Chicago 266 -- 175 Plan of the Convention Hall 267 -- 176 Collage showing the interior of the Convention Hall with a crowd 268 -- 177 Mies studying model of Convention Hall 269 -- 178 Staircase of the Arts Club of Chicago 271 -- 179 Mies, Philip Johnson, and Phyllis Bronfman Lambert 273 -- 180 Seagram Building, New York 274 -- 181 Entrance to the Seagram Building, with canopy in the foreground 276 -- 182 Seagram Building, with eastern extension 278 -- 183 Plan of the Seagram Building 279 -- 184 Model of the Seagram Building with Mies's sculpture 280 -- 185 Philip Johnson, Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut 282 -- 186 Chapel, IIT — 286 -- 187 Mies and Harry Weese at the Graham Foundation 288 -- 188 Ewald Mies and Mies at Miesville, Wisconsin 290 -- 189 Waltraut Mies van der Rohe and Mies, Chicago 290 -- 190 Mies at Epidaurus 291 -- 191 Mies at Epidaurus 292 -- 192 Mies at the Acropolis, looking toward Erechtheum, Athens 292 -- 193 Mies and Lora Marx at Nafplion 293 -- 194 Mies's sister Maria and Marianne Lohan 293 -- 195 Ewald Mies and Mies at the Schlosshotel Guelpen, Holland 294 -- 196 Model of the Lafayette Park Housing project, Detroit 295 -- 197 Residential tower and row house of Lafayette Park 295 -- 198 View of the plaza in Dominion Centre, Toronto 297 -- 199 Interior of the bank in Dominion Centre 299 -- 200 "Six Master Paintings, Two Glasses, One Sculpture," installation by Mies of exhibition, Cullinan Hall, 20 March–15 April 1963 300 -- 201 Model of the Bacardi Office Building project, Santiago, Cuba 302 -- 202 Collage showing the interior of the Bacardi Office Building 303 -- 203 Model of the Schaefer Museum project, Schweinfurt 304 -- 204 National Gallery, Berlin 306 -- 205 Main hall of the National Gallery 307 -- 206 Exterior detail of the National Gallery 308 -- 207 Mies at the groundbreaking ceremony of the National Gallery 308 -- 208 Raising the roof of the National Gallery 309 -- 209 Mies at the raising of the National Gallery's roof 310 -- 210 Henry Moore and Mies at the Berlin National Gallery 310 -- 211 Mies in conversation with Stephan Waetzoldt, with Dirk Lohan in the background, Berlin 311 -- 212 Mies receiving Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon B. Johnson, Washington, D.C. 312 -- 213 Mies in his apartment with painting by Paul Klee and sculpture by Pablo Picasso 314 -- 214 Four generations: Mies with Marianne Lohan, Dirk Lohan, and Dirk's children, Caroline and Lars 315 -- 215 Mies revisiting IIT, surrounded by students and colleagues 315 -- 216 Mies revisiting IIT, surrounded by students and colleagues 316 -- 217 Mies reading Bauen seit 1900 in Berlin 317 -- 218 Model of the Mansion House Square project, London 318 -- 219 Mies memorial service at IIT, 1968 323 --
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