The classic and definitive monograph on iconic architect Mies van der Rohe.
Known for the beauty and purity of his work, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed remarkable houses, skyscrapers, museums, and multi-building campuses across the world. Accompanied by more than 700 drawings, photographs, plans, and diagrams, Detlef Mertins’ rich and highly readable text traces the aesthetic and intellectual context for all of Mies van der Rohe’s work, with in-depth discussions of his most important buildings and projects. The clarity of Mies’s architecture belies the diversity of his interests, which included philosophy and science as well as design, and Mertin’s rigorous and accessible text gives the reader a clear description of all the most important of Mies’s buildings as well as the intellectual contexts for their design.
- 544 pages
- Format: Hardcover
- Size: 238 x 305 mm
- ISBN: 9781838668174
