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

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.

Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές αναφορές και ευρετήριο.

"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 -- Architect as art collector / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- Alien #5044325: Mies's first trip to America / Cammie McAtee -- Mies immersion / Phyllis Lambert -- Living in a jungle: Mies, organic architecture, and the art of city building / Detlef Mertins -- Bas-relief urbanism: Chicago's figured field / Sarah Whiting -- Mies effect / K. Michael Hays -- Mies and the figuring of absence / Peter Eisenman -- Miestakes / Rem Koolhaas.

This major study of one of the 20th century's greatest achitects re-evaluates the entirer body of work undertaken by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between his emigration to America in 1938 and his death in 1969. Based on consederable 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 the riches 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. The figure that emerges from these essays is not one Mies - not even a discrete American Mies - but Mies of complex outlineQ a visionary thinker as well as builder, a colleague and a teacher, a Mies becoming as well as a Mies defined in structure and space. Written to accompany an exhibition curated and organized by Phyllis Lambert of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Mies in America looks beyond Mies's most famous architectural triumphs to understand in a more profound way the evolution of this seminal artist. With 630 illustrations, 118 in full color, the book includes a complete chronology of Mies's work since 1937, builkt and unbuuilt, from the Resor House designed on Mies's first visit to America to the New National Gallery in Berlin, just completed before the architect's death.