Ludwig Mies van der Rohe by Jean-Louis Cohen traces the full arc of Mies's practice — from his early Berlin buildings and villa projects through his Bauhaus years and his defining postwar American commissions — with scholarly rigour and exceptional visual material.
About This Book
Few figures in twentieth-century architecture carry the weight of Mies van der Rohe, and fewer still have received a monograph as considered as this one. Jean-Louis Cohen approaches the work chronologically and analytically, mapping the evolution of a practice that moved from German Expressionist roots to the steel-and-glass abstraction that would reshape the postwar city. The book covers the Berlin beginnings, the villa projects, the Bauhaus directorship of the 1930s, and the canonical American buildings that secured Mies's place in the modernist canon. For architects, students, and historians engaged with the foundations of modernism, this is a reliable and visually rich point of reference.
Key Features
- 192 pages of in-depth scholarly essays alongside architectural plans and photographs
- Text by Jean-Louis Cohen, leading international historian of architecture
- Published by Birkhäuser Verlag, 3rd edition, 2018
What You'll Discover
- How Mies's early Berlin buildings established the formal preoccupations that would define his entire career
- The role of his villa projects in developing a spatial language of open plan and material precision
- Mies's engagement with the Bauhaus in the 1930s and what that institutional context demanded of his practice
- The American postwar projects as the culmination of a modernist vision translated into a new urban and cultural context
About the Author
Jean-Louis Cohen served as director of the Institut français d'architecture until 2003 and holds a professorship at New York University. He is regarded as one of the leading historians of architecture working internationally, and his broad, encompassing perspective gives this monograph both scholarly authority and accessibility.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 192
- Dimensions: 220 x 245 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035616644
- Publisher: Birkhäuser Verlag
- Publication Date: 2018
Perfect For: Architects, architecture students, and historians with a serious interest in modernism, the Bauhaus legacy, and the development of twentieth-century built form.