Mies van der Rohe
A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition
- Contents
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List of Illustrations
Preface
Prologue
1. Youth in Imperial Germany: 1886–1905
2. Apprenticeship, Marriage, and World War: 1905–18
3. Europe out of the Ashes: 1918–26
4. Weimar at High Tide: 1926–30
5. Political Crises and the End of the Bauhaus: 1930–36
6. America Beckons: 1936–38
7. Architect and Educator: 1938–49
8. A New Architectural Language: 1946–53
9. The 1940s
10. The Farnsworth Saga: 1946–55
11. American Apogee: Residential Work 1950–59
12. American Apogee: Commercial and Institutional Work 1950–59
13. Worldwide Practice: The 1960s
14. Was Less Less? 1959–69
15. Recessional: 1962–69
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Protégés
Appendix B: Mies’s Career, in Publications and Exhibitions
Notes
Bibliographic Afterword
Index
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