The classic and definitive monograph on iconic architect Mies van der Rohe. This is the most readable, comprehensive, and beautiful book ever published on one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects. Known for the beauty and purity of his work, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built remarkable houses, skyscrapers, museums, and multibuilding campuses. Accompanied by more than 700 drawings, photographs, plans, and diagrams, The clarity of Mies’s architecture belies the diversity of his interests, which included philosophy and science as well as design. Author Detlef Mertin’s rigorous and accessible text gives the reader a clear description of all the most important of Mies’s buildings as well as the intellectual contexts for their design. Hardcover, 544 pages, 2024. 9.4 x 12 in.
