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Genre/Form: | Biography |
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Named Person: | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Franz Schulze; Edward Windhorst |
ISBN: | 9780226756004 0226756009 |
OCLC Number: | 768728923 |
Description: | xii, 493 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
Contents: | Youth in imperial Germany: 1886-1905 -- Apprenticeship, marriage, and World War: 1905-18 -- Europe out of the ashes: 1918-26 -- Weimar at high tide: 1926-30 -- Political crises and the end of the Bauhaus: 1930-36 -- America beckons: 1936-38 -- Architect and educator: 1938-46 -- A new architectural language: 1946-53 -- The 1940s -- The Farnsworth saga: 1946-55 -- American apogee: residential work 1950-59 -- American apogee: commercial and institutional work: 1950-59 -- Worldwide practice: the 1960s -- Was less less? 1959-69 -- Recessional: 1962-69 -- Appendix A: protégés -- Appendix B: Mies's career, in publications and exhibitions. |
Responsibility: | Franz Schulze and Edward Windhorst. |
Abstract:
Traces Mies van der Rohe's progress from traditionalist to radical modernist in his European period to his second maturity in the United States, where his architecture focused on the artistic expression of structure. This title also reveals details of his relationships with women, including his correspondence with Ada Bruhn, who became his wife.
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"Franz Schulze's 1985 biography of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has always been acknowledged as the most comprehensive and thoughtful biography of one of the key figures in twentieth-century architecture. This revised edition with significant new scholarship by its two authors will undoubtedly come to occupy the same position." -Dietrich Neumann, Brown University" Read more...
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