Mies Van Der Rohe: Critical Essays by Various Authors - 1989

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to (11.5"x9.5"). 199pp. Tan cloth-covered boards with silverstamped title to spine. Slight bump to tail corner of upper board. Foxed textblock edges, first & last pages. B&W photos throughout. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar: very light shelfwear, very light tone to top edges, creasing to inner panels.

New York: Murdoch University, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 207 pages indexed, biographical references. The half title page has minor foxing, else immaculate. CONTENTS: Introduction / Franz Schulze From obscurity to maturity : Mies van der Rohe's breakthrough to modernism / Wolf Tegethoff Mies van der Rohe and the political ideology of the modern movement in architecture / Richard Pommer Space for reflection : block versus pavilion / Fritz Neumeyer Mies in America : an interview with James Ingo Freed / Franz Schulze.

Museum of Modern Art, 1989-12-01. Hardcover. Good. . Ex library copy with usual markings. No jacket.

Museum; MIT Press. New. 1989. Hardcover. 0870705695 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- - Description: "Essays by Wolf Tegethoff, Richard Pommer, and Fritz Neumeyer. Interview with James Ingo Freed. The rich legacy of scholarly and critical reassessments of Mies van der Rohe continues to grow since his centenary in 1986. This book which had its origins in the historic centennial exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, presents four provocative new writings on Mies augmented by 150 illustrations from MOMA's Mies van der Rohe Archive and other sources. In his insightful introduction, Franz Schulze, author of the acclaimed 'Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography', discusses the reasons why Mies's art and name evokes such a different response today and compares Mies to Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier in terms of critical… Read More