Main entry:

Neumeyer, Fritz.

Title & Author:

The artless word : Mies van der Rohe on the building art / Fritz Neumeyer ; translated by Mark Jarzombek.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1991.

Description:

xxii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Originally published in German under title: Mies van der Rohe.
Includes writings and lectures by Mies van der Rohe.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-380) and index.
Introduction: Mies van der Rohe in the Historiography of Modern Architecture -- I. The Double Work Field: Architect as Author -- II. Philosophy as Patron -- 1. The View into the Intrinsic -- 2. From Accident to Order: The Way to Building -- 3. The "Great Form" and the "Will to Style" -- III. The Ambivalence of Concepts: Construction or Interpretation of Reality? Berlage or Behrens? Hegel or Nietzsche? -- IV. Elementary Form-Giving: Departure for the Limits of Architecture -- 1. "Beyond Architecture": On Eternal Building -- 2. Construction as Promise of Art: Building Art in the Raw -- 3. The Building Master of Today -- V. From Material through Purpose to Idea: The Long Path to the Building Art -- 1. Departure from the Will of the Epoch: Building Art as Spiritual Decision -- 2. 1926: Stimuli, Critique, and Orientation -- 3. Space for the Unfolding of the Spirit -- VI. Architecture for the Search for Knowledge: The Double Way to Order -- Appendix: Manifestos, Texts, and Lectures -- I. 1922-1927 -- 1. Skyscrapers (1922) -- 2. "Office Building" (1923) -- 3. Office Building (1923) -- 4. "Building" (1923) -- 5. "Solved Tasks: A Challenge for Our Building Industry" (1923) -- 6. "Building Art and the Will of the Epoch!" (1924) -- 7. "Industrial Building" (1924) -- 8. Lecture (1924) -- 9. Review of Paul Tropp. Entwicklung und Aufbau der Miete (1924) -- 10. Letter to Die Form (1926) -- 11. Lecture (1926)
12. Letters to Die Form: "Regarding the New Volume" and "On Form in Architecture" (1927) -- 13. Foreword to the Official Catalog of the Stuttgart Werkbund Exhibition "Die Wohnung" (1927) -- 14. Foreword to Bau und Wohnung and "Concerning My Block" (1927) -- 15. Introductory Remarks to the Special Issue "Werkbundausstellung: Die Wohnung" (1927) -- 16. Lecture (1927) -- 17. Draft of a Letter (around 1927) -- II. Notebook (1927-1928) -- 1. Notes for Lectures -- 2. Excerpts -- III. 1928-1938 -- 1. "The Preconditions of Architectural Work" (1928) -- 2. "We Stand at the Turning Point of Time: Building Art as the Expression of Spiritual Decisions" (1928) -- 3. "On the Theme: Exhibitions" (1928) -- 4. The Adam Building (1928) -- 5. "Build Beautifully and Practically! Stop This Cold Functionality" (1930) -- 6. "On the Meaning and Task of Criticism" (1930) -- 7. "The New Time" (1930) -- 8. Program for the Berlin Building Exposition (1930) -- 9. Radio Address (1931) -- 10. Speech on the Occasion of the Anniversary Meeting of the Deutsche Werkbund (1932) -- 11. "Expressways as an Artistic Problem" (1932) -- 12. "What Would Concrete, What Would Steel Be without Mirror Glass?" (1933) -- 13. "The H. House, Magdeburg" (1935) -- 14. Inaugural Address as Director of Architecture at Armour Institute of Technology (1938) -- IV. 1939-1969 -- 1. "A Tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright" (1940) -- 2. "Museum for a Small City" (1943) -- 3. Introduction to Ludwig Hilberseimer, The New City (1944)
4. "Architecture and Technology" (1950) -- 5. Lecture (Chicago, no date) -- 6. Miscellaneous -- Notes to Lectures (around 1950) -- 7. Statement on the Design of the Carr Chapel, Illinois Institute of Technology (1953) -- 8. "Walter Gropius" (1953) -- 9. Foreword to Rudolf Schwarz, The Church Incarnate (1958) -- 10. Notes for a Talk on the Occasion of Receiving the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1959) -- 11. "Where Do We Go from Here?" (1960) -- 12. Thank-you Speech on the Voice of America on the Occasion of His Seventy-fifth Birthday (1961) -- 13. "Rudolf Schwarz" (1963) -- 14. Eulogy for Le Corbusier (1965) -- 15. "Peterhans's Seminar for Visual Training at the Architecture Department of IIT" (1965) -- 16. "Building Art of Our Time (My Professional Career)" (1965) -- 17. "Principles for Education in the Building Art" (1965) -- 18. "Walter Gropius 1883-1969" (1969). A Talk with Mies van der Rohe / Christian Norberg-Schulz.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

Using Mies' writings the author presents a reconstruction of the metaphysical and philosophical inquiry upon which he based his modernism. It aims to present an integrated view of Mies' philosophy of building including his American career.

ISBN:

0262140470
9780262140478

Subject:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 Criticism and interpretation.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 Critique et interprétation.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 1886-1969
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture 20e siècle.
architectural theory.
Architecture, Modern.
Architekturtheorie
Biografias de arquitetos.
Architects United States 20th century.
Architects Germany 20th century.
Architecture
Germany

Form/genre:

Lectures.
Writings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969

Holdings:

Location: Library main 151877
Call No.: NA44.M632.9 N4 1991
Copy: hardcover
Status: Available