Mies in America /

• Corporate Authors: Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre canadien d'architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)
• Other Authors: Lambert, Phyllis (επιμελήτρια.), Oechslin, Werner (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Montréal : New York, N.Y. : [London : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Whitney Museum of American Art ; Harry N. Abrams ; Thames & Hudson, distributor], 2001
• Subjects: Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwig > 1886-1969; Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig > 1886-1969 > Κατάλογοι; Διεθνές στυλ (Αρχιτεκτονική) > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής

This major study of one of the 20th century's greatest achitects re-evaluates the entirer body of work undertaken by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between his emigration to America in 1938 and his death in 1969. Based on consederable new research and bringing to light previously unstudied material -...

Table of Contents:

• "Not from an aestheticizing, but from a general cultural point of view" Mies's steady resistance to formalism and determinism: a plea for value-criteria in architecture / Werner Oechslin
• Architect as art collector / Vivian Endicott Barnett
• Alien #5044325: Mies's first trip to America / Cammie McAtee
• Mies immersion / Phyllis Lambert
• Living in a jungle: Mies, organic architecture, and the art of city building / Detlef Mertins
• Bas-relief urbanism: Chicago's figured field / Sarah Whiting
• Mies effect / K. Michael Hays
• Mies and the figuring of absence / Peter Eisenman
• Miestakes / Rem Koolhaas.