Title & Author:

Mies van der Rohe in America / edited by Phyllis Lambert ; essays by Werner Oechslin [and others] ; photographs by Guido Guidi and Richard Pare.

Publication:

[Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany] : Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2001.

Description:

791 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm + 1 folded sheet

Notes:
Catalogue of a travelling exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 21-Sept. 23, 2001; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Oct. 17, 2001-Jan. 20, 2002; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Feb. 16-May 26, 2002.
"Mies in America building chronology, 1937-69" inserted in back cover
Includes bibliographical references (pages 755-777) and index.
"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 -- Architect as art collector / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- Alien #5044325: Mies's first trip to America / Cammie McAtee -- Mies immersion / Phyllis Lambert -- Living in a jungle: Mies, organic architecture, and the art of city building / Detlef Mertins -- Bas-relief urbanism: Chicago's figured field / Sarah Whiting -- Mies effect / K. Michael Hays -- Mies and the figuring of absence / Peter Eisenman -- Miestakes / Rem Koolhaas.

ISBN:

3775710760 (hard cover) Hatje Cantz Publishers)
9783775710763 (hard cover) Hatje Cantz Publishers)
0920785697 (soft cover) Canadian Centre for Architecture and Whitney Museum of American Art)
9780920785690 (soft cover) Canadian Centre for Architecture and Whitney Museum of American Art)
0810967286 (hard cover) Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers)
9780810967281 (hard cover) Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers)

Subject:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
Swiss Architects.
American Architects.
Architecture (object genre) United States 1930-1970.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Barnett, Vivian Endicott, 1944-
Eisenman, Peter, 1932-
Guidi, Guido, 1941-
Hays, K. Michael.
Koolhaas, Rem.
Lambert, Phyllis.
McAtee, Cammie D. (Cammie Dale), 1966-
Mertins, Detlef.
Oechslin, Werner.
Pare, Richard.
Whiting, Sarah.
Centre canadien d'architecture.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)
Whitney Museum of American Art.

Mies in America

Holdings:

Location: Library cage cca productions 218049
Call No.: 2001-4a
Copy: c. 1
Notes: Hatje Cantz hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 218050
Call No.: 2001-4a
Copy: c. 2
Notes: Hatje Cantz hardcover
Status: Available