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Title:

Mies in America / edited by Phyllis Lambert ; essays by Werner Oechslin ... [et al.] ; photographs by Guido Guidi and Richard Pare.

Publisher:

H.N. Abrams,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

791 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig,--1886-1969--Criticism and interpretation.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig,--1886-1969.--Catalogs.
International style (Architecture)--United States.

Other Authors:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
Lambert, Phyllis.
Oechslin, Werner.
Centre canadien d'architecture.
Whitney Museum of American Art.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)

Notes:

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"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 -- The architect as art collector / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- Alien #5044325 : Mies's first trip to America / Cammie McAtee -- Mies Immersion / Phyllis Lambert -- Living in a jungle : Mies, organic architecture, and the art of city building / Detlef Mertins -- Bas-relief urbanism : Chicago's figured field / Sarah Whiting -- The Mies effect / K. Michael Hays -- Mies and the figuring of absence / Peter Eisenman -- Miestakes / Rem Koolhaas.

ISBN:

9780810967281
0810967286

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46503234

LCCN:

2001022621

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)