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Mies in America / edited by Phyllis Lambert ; essays by Werner Oechslin ... [and others] ; photographs by Guido Guidi and Richard Pare.
LIBRA NA1088.M65 M5 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969--Criticism and interpretation.
- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.
- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
- International style (Architecture)--United States.
- International style (Architecture).
- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969--Catalogs.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Atkin, Tony (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 791 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art : Harry N. Abrams, [2001]
- Summary:
- This major study of one of the 20th century's greatest architects reevaluates the entire body of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's work in America. Based on considerable new research and bringing to light previously unstudied material -- drawings and collages, photographs, project documents, and oral histories -- Mies in America presents fresh, original, and corrective interpretations of the architect's achievement.
- Designed to accompany the important exhibition curated by Phyllis Lambert of the Canadian Centre for Architecture and opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in June 2001 and then traveling to Montreal and Chicago, Mies in America includes nine essays that together offer a portrait of Mies's evolution as an artist. Packed with over 550 illustrations, the book looks beyond Mies's most famous architectural triumphs, from the IIT campus in Chicago to the Seagram Building in New York, to probe the relationship between a seminal body of work and its cultural context.
- Contents:
- The Year of Mies 6
- 1 "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 22
- 2 The Architect as Art Collector / Vivian Endicott Barnett 90
- 3 Alien #5044325: Mies's First Trip to America / Cammie McAtee 132
- 4 Mies Immersion / Phyllis Lambert
- Learning a Language 222
- Space and Structure 332
- Photographic Portfolio: Guido Guidi and Richard Pare 522
- Mies and His Colleagues 564
- 5 Living in a Jungle: Mies, Organic Architecture, and the Art of City Building / Detlef Mertins 590
- 6 Bas-Relief Urbanism: Chicago's Figured Field / Sarah Whiting 642
- 7 The Mies Effect / K. Michael Hays 692
- 8 Mies and the Figuring of Absence / Peter Eisenman 706
- 9 Miestakes / Rem Koolhaas 716
- Mies van der Rohe and His Colleagues: Archives and Collections at the CCA 751.
- Notes:
- "This publication accompanies the exhibition MIES in AMERICA, curated by Phyllis Lambert and organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, with the cooperation of the Mies van der Rohe Archive, The Museum of Modern Art, New York."--T.p. verso.
- Includes chronology.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0810967286
- OCLC:
- 46503234
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