Main entry:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art : Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 2001.
©2001

Description:

791 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm building chronology in back pocket

Notes:
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 21-Sept. 23, 2001, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Oct. 17, 2001-Jan. 20, 2002, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Feb. 16-May 26, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Phyllis Lambert -- 1. "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 -- 2. The architect as art collector / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- 3. Alien #5044325 : Mies's first trip to America / Cammie McAtee -- 4. Mies Immersion / Phyllis Lambert -- 5. Living in a jungle : Mies, organic architecture, and the art of city building / Detlef Mertins -- 6. Bas-relief urbanism : Chicago's figured field / Sarah Whiting -- 7. The Mies effect / K. Michael Hays -- 8. Mies and the figuring of absence / Peter Eisenman -- 9. Miestakes / Rem Koolhaas.

Summary:

"This study of one of the 20th century's greatest architects re-evaluates the entire body of work undertaken by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between his emigration to America in 1938 and his death in 1969. Based on considerable new research and bringing to light previously unstudied material - drawings and collages, photographs, project documents, letters, and extensive interviews with many of those who worked with Mies - this is the first study to make full and in-depth use of available archival material. Its nine essays, distinct in style of argumentation, focus, and ambition, constitute a new interpretation of a major figure in architectural history." "Mies in America offers readers a deeper immersion into Mies's thought than has been attempted before. Venturing a more complex response than the familiar reading of Mies as a grand master of modernism, these essays retrace the genesis of Mies's design in order to uncover his ambitions, investigate the implicit outlines of the Miesian city, follow the process of designing for America, and look at Mies as a touchstone for contemporary practice."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0810967286 (Abrams ; hard cover)
9780810967281 (Abrams ; hard cover)
3775710760 (Cantz ; hard cover)
9783775710763 (Cantz ; hard cover)
0920785697 (Canadian Centre for Architecture and Whitney Museum of Modern Art ; soft cover)
9780920785690 (Canadian Centre for Architecture and Whitney Museum of Modern Art ; soft cover)

Subject:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 Criticism and interpretation.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 Catalogs.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 Critique et interprétation.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 Expositions.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, (1886-1969) Catalogues d'exposition.
International style (Architecture) United States.
Style international (Architecture) États-Unis Expositions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Style international (Architecture) États-Unis.
International style (Architecture)
Gebouwen.
Style international (architecture) États-Unis Catalogues d'exposition.
United States

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Autographs.
Inscriptions.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Lambert, Phyllis, editor, contributor.
Oechslin, Werner, contributor.
Whitney Museum of American Art, host institution, publisher.
Centre canadien d'architecture, host institution, publisher.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), host institution, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage cca productions 216803
Call No.: 2001-4
Copy: c. 4
Notes: CCA pbk.
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 216808
Call No.: 2001-4
Copy: c. 3
Notes: CCA pbk.
Status: Available

Location: Library study room cca productions 216804
Call No.: NA44.M632.9 M4 2001
Copy: c. 5
Notes: Abrams hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 216806
Call No.: 2001-4
Copy: c. 1
Notes: Abrams hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library main 216805
Call No.: NA44.M632.9 M4 2001
Copy: c. 6
Notes: Abrams hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 216807
Call No.: 2001-4
Copy: c. 2
Notes: Abrams hardcover
Status: Available