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Title: The Presence of Mies by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Detlef Mertins, George Baird ISBN: 1-56898-013-2 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Re-Modernizing Mies
Comment: This book is emblemmatic of the recent re-presentation of Mies. It is not the normative reading of his work and significance. Having fallen from grace in the 1980s, Mies was resurrected in the 90s by neo-modernist architects and architectural historians. The recent twin Mies exhibitions in New York (at MoMA and the Whitney) are byproducts of the rebirth of Mies. The essays of this book will make grand claims to position Mies van der Rohe as a misunderstood genius identified with a few seminal buildings and denigrated by association with all the pathetic copies of his work perpetrated around the world by drone architects of the International Style. Gratefully, the resurrection of Mies includes a cold, hard look at his notion of "site" and of "landscape" - however impoverished the sense of the latter might be in his usual glass-box-on-podium formula. The rationalist Mies was an invention of the purveyors of the International Style, Philip Johnson first among culprits, but also of Mies himself. His carefully crafted public persona buried many aspects of his personality and his work that are only now coming to light. It is only now that Mies is able to be seen as a putative poet of form with a troubled, albeit checkered history of surfing trends in the 1910s and 1920s (while in Berlin) till he found his place in formulating the architectural language and image of modern corporate America.
Rating: 5
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Title: Mies Van Der Rohe At Work by Peter Carter ISBN: 0714838969 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 16 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: West Meets East-Mies Van Der Rohe: Mies Van Der Rohe by Werner Blaser, Johannes Malms ISBN: 3764364580 Publisher: Birkhauser (Architectural) Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $61.95 |
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Title: Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques by Peter Eisenman, Giuseppe Terragni, Manfredo Tafuri ISBN: 1885254962 Publisher: The Monacelli Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier ISBN: 0486250237 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 February, 1985 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Mies in America by Phyllis Lambert ISBN: 0920785697 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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