Main entry:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.

Title & Author:

The presence of Mies / edited by Detlef Mertins ; contributors, George Baird [and others].

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 1994.

Description:

271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
This publication follows the symposium held on September 26, 1992 in the Council Chamber of Toronto City Hall to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Toronto-Dominion Centre.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction. New Mies / Detlef Mertins -- Practice. Punching through the clouds : notes on the place of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in the North American Oeuvre of Mies / Phyllis Lambert ; Mies's skyscraper "project" : towards the redemption of technical structure / Detlef Mertins -- Technology. A world in itself : architecture and technology / Fritz Neumeyer ; Mies and movement : military logistics and molecular regimes / Sanford Kwinter -- Reworkings. The receding horizon of Mies : work of the Cranbrook Architecture Studio / Dan Hoffman ; Renouncing autistic words / Ben Nicholson -- Minimalism. The grid, the /cloud/, and the detail / Rosalind Krauss ; Mies van der Rohe and minimalism / Ignasi de Solá-Morales Rubió -- Openings. Looking for "the public" in Mies van der Rohe's concept for the Toronto-Dominion Centre / George Baird ; Almost nothing : Heidegger and Mies / Rebecca Comay -- Images. Mies not / Beatriz Colomina ; What's so funny : modern jokes and modern architecture / Brian Boigon -- Afterword. Odysseus and the oarsmen, or, Mies's abstraction once again / K. Michael Hays -- Toronto-Dominion Centre.
Also issued online.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568980205
9781568980201
1568980132 (paper)
9781568980133 (paper)
1568980205 (Mac disk)
9781568980201 (Mac disk)
1568980221 (Windows disk)
9781568980225 (Windows disk)

Subject:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 Criticism and interpretation Congresses.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 Critique et interprétation Congrès.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Congresses.
Architecture 20e siècle Congrès.
Architecture, Modern.
Gebouwen.

Form/genre:

Congress
Conference papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Congresses.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Mertins, Detlef.
Baird, George.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 206298
Call No.: NA44.M632.9 M52 1994
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 246439
Call No.: NA44.M632.9 M52 1994
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available