 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
MIES VAN DER ROHE
|
| By: |
Jean-Louis Cohen |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£82.99 |
| Our price: |
£74.69 |
| Discount: |
|
| You save:
|
£8.30 |
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0419203303 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780419203308 |
| Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery
rates
|
| Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 1995 |
| Series: |
Architecture Collection |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
The career and built works of this enigmatic and fascinating architect are carefully charted from his early work on housing design and high-rise offices in Berlin to his later and most famous work in Chicago, Detroit, Montreal and New York. Original |
| Synopsis: |
This book examines the life and work of one of the great architects of our time, Mies van der Rohe. Beginning and ending in Berlin, from the pre-1914 houses for the intelligentsia, to the final masterpiece of 1968, the Neue Nationalgalerie, this short biography records the stages of a distinguished career from the Bauhaus to Chicago, Detroit, Montreal and to New York with the famous Seagram Building on the Park Avenue pedestal and confirms him as the equal of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Jean-Louis Cohen brings out the paradoxes in this elegant, remote, refined and mysterious personality: the same man who built the monument to Rosa Luxembourg and who flirted with the Nazi regime; the same architect who affirmed, in one of his famous aphorisms that "less is more" and yet does not hesitate to use the most sophisticated materials for his builings. This study shows how Mies "designed, in his initial types, and in their develpment, categories of buildings as symbolic of the capitalist method of production as of the Florentine palaces were of Quattrocento society".Jean-Louis Cohen, senior lecturer at the School of Further Studies in Social Sciences, Paris, France, has written numerous architectural monographs and various articles in European publications on the architecture of Western Europe, of Russia and of the United States. |
| Illustrations: |
45 line illustrations, 137 halftone illustrations, further reading, index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Spon Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|