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Mies van der Rohe, a critical biography, Franz Schulze and Edward Windhorst

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Includes bibliographical references (page 471) and index

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Mies van der Rohe

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Franz Schulze and Edward Windhorst

a critical biography

This comprehensive biography tells the compelling story of how Mies and his students and followers created some of the most significant buildings of the twentieth century. It traces Mies's European career in its progression to avant-garde modernism, where his work was materially rich but of modest scale, to his second maturity and world renown in the United States, where he invented a new architectural language of "objective" structural expression. Reveals new information about his relationships with women, and gives voice to dozens of architects who knew and worked with (and sometimes against) Mies-- many of them from the unique oral history collection of the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Architecture

Youth in imperial Germany: 1886-1905 -- Apprenticeship, marriage, and World War: 1905-18 -- Europe out of the ashes: 1918-26 -- Weimar at high tide: 1926-30 -- Political crises and the end of the Bauhaus: 1930-36 -- America beckons: 1936-38 -- Architect and educator: 1938-46 -- A new architectural language: 1946-53 -- The 1940s -- The Farnsworth saga: 1946-55 -- American apogee: residential work 1950-59 -- American apogee: commercial and institutional work: 1950-59 -- Worldwide practice: the 1960s -- Was less less? 1959-69 -- Recessional: 1962-69 -- Appendix A: protégés -- Appendix B: Mies's career, in publications and exhibitions