Description: Mies Van Der Rohe : An Architect in His Time, Hardcover by Neumann, Dietrich, ISBN 0300246234, ISBN-13 9780300246230, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A landmark survey, offering a nuanced and deeply researched account of the career and life of the iconic modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) was a German-born American architect and designer whose work in Europe and North America has had an enduring influence on modern and contemporary architecture worldwide. During his sixty-year career, he fundamentally rethought architectural types that shaped modern life, including the office building, apartment building, and private home. True to his alleged dictum “less is more,” Mies van der Rohe’s style is characterized by utmost simplicity, elegance of materials, and radical formal and functional innovation, as exemplified by such iconic projects as the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, and the Seagram Building in New York. In this book, renowned architectural historian Dietrich Neumann presents a new, critical look at Mies and complicates the established narrative about him. Diverging from the reverential posture of many existing accounts, Neumann insists on the importance of the contemporary context—social, political, and architectural—for understanding the architect’s life and work. Th draws on many overlooked archival and primary sources to demonstrate how and why Mies’s designs were shaped and received, foregrounding contemporary critics’ responses and the work of Mies’s collaborators and peers. It presents several previously unknown buildings, projects, and furniture designs and challenges long-established interpretations of key works. Comprehensively illustrated and covering the entirety of Mies’s career, this ambitious book is the most substantial account to date of the life and work of one of the most important architects of the twentieth century.
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Book Title: Mies Van Der Rohe : an Architect in His Time
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 1.4 in
Topic: Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), History / Contemporary (1945-), General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Architecture
Item Weight: 84.4 Oz
Item Length: 12.3 in
Author: Dietrich Neumann
Item Width: 9.4 in
Format: Hardcover
