Architecture Book Description
Release Date: June 5, 2013 | ISBN-10: 0714839620 | ISBN-13: 978-0714839622
Mies
is the most beautiful and extensive monograph on one of the most important architects of all time, Mies van der Rohe. This is a must-have, landmark book, the result of a lifetime's passion by writer Detlef Mertins.
Detlef Mertins (1954 - 2011) made lasting contributions to the theory and history of modernism in architecture, art, philosophy, and urbanism. From 2002 to 2007, he was Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He also taught at the University of Toronto and, as a visiting professor, at Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University and Rice University. Among his many published books are Modernity Unbound (2011); G: An Avant-Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design, and Film, 1923 - 1926 (2010), co-edited with Michael Jennings; The Presence of Mies (1994) and Metropolitan Mutations: The Architecture of Emerging Public Spaces (1989). Mertins also published numerous essays in scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as critical writings on contemporary architecture.
Product Details
Hardcover: 560 pages
Publisher: Phaidon Press (June 5, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0714839620
ISBN-13: 978-0714839622
