Archipockets, Mies van der Rohe

Name: Archipockets, Mies van der Rohe
Brand: Neues, te, Verlag GmbH u. Co. KG
SKU: 9783823855811-V
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By Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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[Mies van der Rohe] Cuito, Aurora. Mies van der Rohe. Bain, William (English translation) / Wolthaus, Inken (German translation) / Ficerai, Michel (French translation) / Suffriti, Grazia (Italian translation). Kempen, etc. teNeues Publishing Group, 2002. 17 cm x 22.5 cm. 79 pages. With many photographs. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Archipocket Series] Includes the following: Weissenhof Siedlung Apartments / German Pavilion / Tugendhat House / Farnsworth House / S.R. Crown Hall, IIT / Promontory Apartments / Lakeshore Drive Apartments / Seagram Building / Lafayette Park / Neue National Galerie / IBM Regional Headquarters / Chronology. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname. Along with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture. Mies, like many of his post-World War I contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created an influential twentieth-century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces. He strove toward an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of unobstructed free-flowing open space. He called his buildings skin and bones architecture. He sought an objective approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design, but he was always concerned with expressing the spirit of the modern era. He is often associated with his quotation of the aphorisms, 'less is more' and 'God..

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Edition:

illustrated

Number of Pages:

80

Release Date:

2002-09-30

Publication Date:

2002-09-01

Publisher:

Neues, te, Verlag GmbH u. Co. KG

Languages:

Published: English, Original: Italian

ISBN10:

3823855816

Weight:

363 g

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