Mies van der Rohe Architectural Monograph

architect: Mies Van Der Rohe

monograph no: 01

title : Mies van der Rohe: European Works

publisher: Wiley-Academy / St. Martin’s Press (Architectural Monographs No 11)

publishing date: 1986-10-01

editorial: Sandra Honey, Adrian Gale, James Gowan

language: English and Spanish

pages: 112

file size: 64.3 mb (non OCR)

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 085670685X

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780856706851

Binding: Paperback

reference: www.addebook.com

Summary:

41 projects illustrated in black and white

Architectural projects illustrated by B&W photos, plans, sections, elevations, hard line axonometric views, hand sketches, and short text descriptions; ISBN: 085670685X (PB), ISBN: 085670881X (HC), ISBN: 0312532156 (PB), ISBN: 0312532148 (HC) only.

CONTENTS:

7 Foreword

11 Mies in Germany by Sandra Honey

EARLY HOUSES

26 Villa Riehi

28 Villa Werner

30 Villa Eichstaedt

32 Villa Perls

35 Villa Mosler

36 Villa Urbig

EARLY PROJECTS

38 Office Building

40 Glass Skyscraper

41 Concrete Office Building

Brick Country House

42 Concrete Country House

Traffic Control Tower

SOCIAL HOUSING

43 Afrikanische Strasse

45 Weissenhofsiedlung

Skin Projects

46 Alexanderplatz

47 Adam Building

Stuttgart Bank Building

EXHIBITIONS

48 Weissenhof Exhibition

`Mode der Dame’ Exhibition

50 Barcelona Exhibition

52 Berlin `Deutsches Volk’ Exhibition

Berlin Building Exhibition

53 Furniture

BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS

55 Luxemburg/Liebknecht Memorial

56 Haus Wolf

58 Haus Lange

60 Haus Esters

62 Barcelona Pavilion

70 Model Houses

72 Haus Tugendhat

78 Silk Industry Complex

80 Haus Lemke

PROJECTS

82 War Memorial

Reichsbank

84 Krefeld Administration Building

COURT-HOUSES

86 Courthouse projects

88 Gericke House

89 Hubbe House

90 Ulrich Lange House

SINGLE SPACE PROJECTS

91 House on a Hillside

Brussels Pavilion

93 Resor House

95 Mies van der Rohe: An Appreciation by Adrian Gale

101 Mies by James Gowan

102 Chronology of Mies’ work in Europe

104 Bibliography

106 Résumés: French, German, Italian, Spanish

Summary: Early works of van der Rohe

A somewhat essential book for the interested student, it lists out what I believe are the great master’s early works before the Nazi era ended his days in Europe. Though the texts are brief in description, the black and white photographs screams for hours of close attention and observation, for though unclear they are, eaten by the hunger of time, they offer the reader a different scope about his works. From traditional masonry to steel and glass, the book offers little stand about van der Rohe’s lines and designs. It doesnt offer much argument if his steel and glass structures are very much derived from the proportions of the Romans (the conventional school of thought today offer this as the truth), nor does it explain much about his calculated dealings with Hitler’s architectural department before he got caught up and subsequently branded a degenerate, nor does it elaborate anything on the communist-related projects he had done before. His later collaborator Ms.Reich does get a brief mention, but as in the rest of this rather thin monograph , everything’s brief, but makes a good quick reference into the almost unknown timezones of this 20th century, and perhaps of all time, greatest master architect.

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