Includes index.

Mies as Educator : Written and Spoken Words 8 --
Mies , a Kind of Modernity 14 --
Editorial Note with Archival Sources and Bibliography 28 --
Photo Essay 32 --
Mies in Is Own Words 49 --
1 Two Glass Skyscrapers ( 1922 ) 50 --
2 Office Building ( 1923 ) 51 --
3 Draft for a Newspaper Article ( 1923 ) 52 --
4 Building ( 1923 ) 52 --
5 Solved Tasks: A Challenge for Our Building Industry ( 1923 ) 53 --
6 [ Review of Paul Tropp , Development and Organization of Rent ] ( 1924 ) 55 --
7 The Industrialization of Building Methods ( 1924 ) 55 --
8 [ Lecture: What We Mean by Elementary Form – Giving ] ( 1924 ) 57 --
9 Building Art and the Will of the Epoch! ( 1924 ) 61 --
10 [ Lecture: The Nature of Building ] ( 1926 ) 62 --
11 Letter to Die Form ( 1926 ) 68 --
12 An Interview With an Architect ( 1926 ) 68 --
13 For the New Year ( 1927 ) 70 --
14 On Form in Architecture ( 1927 ) 72 --
15 Lecture: The Struggle for the Flat Roof ( 1927 ) 70 --
16 Foreword to the Catalogue for the Die Wohnung Exhibition ( 1927 ) 74 --
17 Foreword to Bau und Wohnung ( 1927 ) 74 --
18 Concerning My Block ( 1927 ) 75 --
19 Introduction to the Werkbund Exhibition in Stuttgart ( 1927 ) 76 --
20 ON Flat and Pitched Roofs ( 1927 ) 77 --
21 Draft of a Letter (c. 1927 – 28 ) 77 --
22 The Preconditions for Architectural Work ( 1928 ) 78 --
23 On the Topic of Exhibitions ( 1928 ) 82 --
24 We Stand at the Turning Point of Time: Building Art as the Expression of Spiritual Decisions ( 1928 ) 83 --
25 The Adam Department Store ( 1928 ) 84 --
26 Stuttgart Bank Competition Report ( 1928 ) 85 --
27 On the Barcelona Pavilion ( 1929 ) 86 --
28 Beautiful and Practical Buildings ! Stop this Cold Functionality ( 1930 ) 86 --
29 Art Criticism ( 1930 ) 86 --
30 The New Time ( 1930 ) 88 --
31 Hall II at the Berlin Building Exposition ( 1931 ) 89 --
32 Radio Address ( 1931 ) 90 --
33 Paul Klee Leaves the Bauhaus ( 1931 ) 91 --
34 Expressways as an Artistic Problem ( 1932 ) 91 --
35 On the Anniversary of the Werkbund ( 1932 ) 93 --
36 Bauhaus Berlin , Syllabus and Curriculum ( 1932 ) 94 --
37 This is How the Future Berlin Bauhaus Will Look ( 1932 ) 97 --
38 What Would Concrete , What Would Steel Be without Plate Glass ? ( 1933 ) 98 --
39 Announcement of the Dissolution of the Bauhaus to Students (1 933 ) 99 --
40 Letter on the End of the Bauhaus ( 1933 ) 99 --
41 Competitions Proposal ( 1933 ) 100 --
42 Architects of Europe Today ( 1935 ) 101 --
43 The H. House in Magdeburg ( 1935 ) 103 --
44 Inaugural Address as Director of Architecture at Armor Institute of Technology ( 1938 ) 104 --
45 Architectural Education (c. 1938 – 39 ) 106 --
46 AIT Curriculum (c. 1939 ) 108 --
47 The Stevens Chicago Note ( c. 1938 – 39 ) 109 --
48 It is Performance hat Matters (c . 1938 - 45 ) 109 --
49 A Tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright (c 1940 ) 111 --
50 Vendome Shop in Pittsburgh ( 1941 ) 112 --
51 A Museum for a Small City ( 1943 ) 113 --
52 Introduction to Ludwig Hilberseimer , The New City ; Principles of Planning ( 1944 ) 114 --
53 Only the Patient Counts: Some Radical Ideas on Hospital Design ( 1945 ) 115 --
54 Library and Administration Building , IIT ( 1946 ) 118 --
55 Book by Phillip Johnson ( 1947 ) 118 --
56 The IIT Campus ( 1949 ) 119 --
57 Campus Design ( 1949 ) 120 --
58 What Should a Church Look Like ? ( 1950 ) 123 --
59 Architecture and Technology ( 1950 ) 126 --
60 Broaden Vision , Architects Urged ( 1950 ) 125 --
61 The Training of Architects ( 1950 ) 125 --
62 People Who Live in Glass Apartments Throw Verbal Stones at Scoffers ( 1951 ) 126 --
63 Six Students Talk with Mies ( 1952 ) 127 --
64 Mies ‘ New Buildings ( 1952 ) 130 --
65 Commons Building , IIT ( 1953 ) 132 --
66 A Chapel , IIT ( 1953 ) 133 --
67 The End of the Bauhaus ( 1953 ) 133 --
68 On Walter Gropius ( 1953 ) 136 --
69 A Proposed National Theater ( 1953 ) 136 --
70 Conversation Regarding the Future of Architecture , Part I ( 1955 ) 139 --
71 Dedication of Crown Hall ( 1956 ) 143 --
72 Crown Hall , IIT ( 1956 ) 143 --
73 Mies Enormous Room ( 1956 ) 144 --
74 Interview Given to the BBC ( 1956 ) 144 --
75 At the Ground-breaking of Lafayette Park ( 1957 ) 151 --
76 Some Ideas Behind Mies Work ( 1957 ) 152 --
77 Office Organization ( 1958 ) 153 --
78 Foreword to Rudolf Schwarz , The Church Incarnate ( 1959 ) 153 --
79 Mies and the Glass Manufacturers ( 1958 ) 154 --
80 Some Thoughts About Civilization ( 1958 ) 155 --
81 A Special Kind of Order ( 1958 ) 157 --
82 Interview at Chicago Office : Eight Questions ( 1958 ) 160 --
83 A Conversation with Mies van der Rohe ( 1958 ) 160 --
84 Dedication of Cullinan Hall ( 1958 ) 163 --
85 Conversation at the Architectural League in New York ( 1958 – 60 ) 164 --
86 Eulogy for Herbert Greenwald ( 1959 ) 172 --
87 Story About the Barcelona Pavilion ( 1959 ) 173 --
88 Conversation with Architecture Students in Chile ( 1959 ) 174 --
89 Acceptance Speech for the Cross of the Order of Merit ( 1959 ) 181 --
90 Speech on the Occasion of Receiving the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of a British America ] ( 1959 ) 182 --
91 No Dogma ( 1959 ) 183 --
92 An Address of Appreciation by HT Cadbury-Brown ( 1959 ) 187 --
93 Architect of the Clear and Reasonable ( 1959 ) 194 --
94 On Value ( 1959 ) 198 --
95 Famed Architect Enjoys Thinking ( 1960 ) 198 --
96 On Civilization ( 1960 ) 200 --
97 Speech on the Occasion of Receiving the AIA Gold Medal ( 1960 ) 201 --
98 George Danforth Interviews Mies ( 1960 ) 202 --
99 Interview with Peter Blake ( 1961 ) 221 --
100 Speech on The Voice of America ( 1962 ) 236 --
101 Speech at Aachen Industrial School ( 1962 ) 237 --
102 An Architect for His Time ( 1962 ) 237 --
103 Eulogy for Rudolf Schwarz ( 1963 ) 242 --
104 Acceptance Speech at the Presentation of the Gold Medal in Architecture ( 1963 ) 242 --
105 Acceptance Speech for the Munich Cultural Award ( 1963 ) 243 --
106 Building Details ( 1963 ) 244 --
107 Conversation Regarding the Future of Architecture , Part II ( 1964 ) 245 --
108 Architecture is Not a Martini Cocktail ( 1964 ) 252 --
109 Meet Mr Mies van der Rohe ( 1964 ) 255 --
110 Mies Speaks in Berlin ( 1964 ) 255 --
111 Against Arbitrary and Childish Play ( 1964 ) 264 --
112 Moder Classicist ( 1965 ) 265 --
113 Peterhans Seminar for Visual Training (1965) 268 --
114 Eulogy for Le Corbusier ( 1965 ) 269 --
115 My Professional Career ( 1965 ) 270 --
116 Mies van der Rohe , an Architect of Our Time ( 1965 – 66 ) 271 --
117 Light 80 Candles on the Library ( 1966 ) 272 --
118 The Life and Times of an Old Maser ( 1968 ) 273 --
119 I Really Always Wanted to Know About Truth ( 1968 ) 275 --
120 The Will of the Epoch Shown in Construction ( c. 1968 ) 276 --
121 Dirk Lohan Interview ( 1969 ) 279 --
122 Eulogy for Walter Gropiu ( 1969 ) 294 --
296 Index --
302 Acknowledgements --

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who communicated his ideas with the same disciplined restraint as he developed his buildings. This book is a heterogeneous collection of writings, speeches, and interviews. Read together, they reveal the breadth of Mies' deep engagement with architecture and education in Germany and the USA. By including both written and spoken words, the co-editors reveal how Mies was able to extend his influence well beyond the classroom-studio and the profession to reach a general audience eager to learn more about his architectural philosophy during a time of great cultural and societal upheaval.