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Mies van der Rohe / [editor and original texts, Aurora Cuito ; photographs by Rui Morais de Sousa ; English translation, William Bain ; German translation, Inken Wolthaus ; French translation, Michel Ficerai ; Italian translation, Grazia Suffriti].

By: Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
Contributor(s): Cuito, Aurora | Sousa, Rui Morais de.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Archipocket.Publisher: Kempen, Germany ; New York, N.Y. : te Neues, c2002Description: 79 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 3823855816.Subject(s): Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 -- Catalogs | Modern movement (Architecture) -- CatalogsDDC classification: 720.92 ROH
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Mies van der Rohe Aquisgran, 1886-Chicago, 1969. Participant and director during the Bauhaus school period, his furniture designs intersect with funtionalist theories that searched for pieces with simplified lines without ornaments, turning the form of furniture into the key aesthetic feature, without adding decorative elements. Among his most characteristic designs stands out the chair Barcelona, created to furnish the German Pavillion in the 1929 Universal Exhibition, in which metallic tubes give way to steel forms. In 1938 he emigrated to the US, where he joined the Art Institute of Chicago.

Text in English, French, German, and Italian.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Weissenhof Siedlung Apartments
  • German Pavilion
  • Tugendhat House
  • Farnsworth House
  • S.R. Crown Hall, IIT
  • Promontory Apartments
  • Lakeshore Drive Apartments
  • Seagram Building
  • Lafayette Park
  • Neue National Galerie
  • IBM Regional Headquarters
  • Chronology

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born in 1886 in Aachen, Germany. His father, a stone mason by profession, was his first teacher, and although he later worked as a draftsman on stucco decorations, Mies never received any formal architectural training. In 1905, he moved to Berlin, where he worked for various architects before opening his own practice in 1937. He also was the successor of Walter Gropius as the director of the Bauhaus. Mies left Germany for Chicago, where he practiced and taught architecture until his death in 1969. Mies is one of the great masters of the modernist movement. His work grew ever more basic and in this way attained discipline, purity, and clarity