Mies in America Hardcover – June 1, 2001

Paperback: 792 pages
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition (August 1, 2003)

This study of one of the 20th century's greatest architects re-evaluates the entire body of work undertaken by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between his emigration to America in 1938 and his death in 1969. Based on considerable new research and bringing to light previously unstudied material - drawings and collages, photographs, project documents, letters, and extensive interviews with many of those who worked with Mies - this is the first study to make full and in-depth use of available archival material. Its nine essays, distinct in style of argumentation, focus, and ambition, constitute a new interpretation of a major figure in architectural history.

Mies in America by Phyllis Lambert, Phyllis Lambert, Whitney Museum ...

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Aug 28, 2003 - This major study of one of the 20th century's greatest architects reevaluates the entire body of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's work in America.

Table of Contents:

The Year of Mies
Introduction /Phyllis Lambert
1.
"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
2.
The Architect as Art Collector /Vivian Endicott Barnett 90
3.
Alien #5044325: Mies's First Trip to America /Cammie McAtee 132
4.
Mies Immersion /Phyllis Lambert 192
Introduction 192
Learning a Language 222
Space and Structure 332
Photographic Portfolio: Guido Guidi and Richard Pare 522
Mies and His Colleagues 564
5.
Living in a Jungle: Mies, Organic Architecture, and the Art of City Building / Detlef Mertins 642
6.
Bas-Relief Urbanism: Chicago's Figured Field / Sarah Whiting
7.
The Mies Effect / K. Michael Hays 692
8.
Mies and the Figuring of Absence / Peter Eisenman 706
9.
Miestakes /Rem Koolhaas. 716

About the Author

Phyllis Lambert, an architect, is founding director and chair of the board of trustees of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. Werner Oechslin is a professor at the Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur in Zurich. Detlef Mertins is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Peter Eisenman is an internationally acclaimed architect. Rem Koolhaas is the winner of the 2000 Pritzker Architecture Prize. K. Michael Hays is adjunct curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and a professor at Harvard University.

Mies in America - Canadian Centre for Architecture

https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/2645/mies-in-america

Mies in America
Exhibition, Main galleries, 17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002

Mies in America. Installation view, 2001

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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European avant-garde to Midwestern steel mills, he embarked on an astonishing second career, in which he not only transformed his own building art, but eventually made a significant impact on the architecture of this continent.

Mies’s confrontation with American technology, and the three decades of evolution and achievement that resulted, are the subjects of Mies in America, organized by the CCA and the Whitney Museum of American Art with the cooperation of the Mies van der Rohe Archive, Museum of Modern Art, New York. It draws upon a wealth of archival material and recent scholarship to offer visitors a deeper immersion into Mies’s thought than has ever before been possible.

To trace the evolution of Mies’s career, Mies in America presents some 220 drawings made by Mies and members of his office; 60 photographs of Mies, his colleagues, and his projects; and models of four key buildings: the Resor House (Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1937–38), the Convention Hall (Chicago, 1953–54), the Seagram Building (New York, 1954–58), and the New National Gallery (Berlin, 1962–68). An intellectual and artistic context is provided through presentations of books from Mies’s extensive library as well as works of art by Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Kurt Schwitters, which formed part of Mies’s noteworthy personal collection. The exhibition also presents new and commissioned work by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Guido Guidi, Richard Pare, and Ammar Eloueini.

Curator: Phyllis Lambert, CCA.
Exhibition design: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Chicago.
Co-organizer: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Selected objects