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Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition by [Franz Schulze, Edward Windhorst]

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Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition Second Edition, Kindle Edition

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An “excellent” new edition of the definitive biography of the architectural genius, with more than a hundred photos (Booklist, starred review).

Upon publication, this book was praised by the Chicago Tribune and “the most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best,” while the Christian Science Monitor noted that “Schulze has both the gift of an architectural historian able to render Mies’s building innovations and that of a biographer able to paint the humanity and shortcomings of the man.” Newsweek called it “a revelation.”

Now, this biography of the iconic modernist architect and designer has been extensively updated, providing an even more enlightening and intimate portrait of a man who helped to create the twentieth century world.

“This excellent revised edition…has 138 illustrations, incisive descriptions of Mies’ innovative creations and a fascinating account of his Pyrrhic victory in a lawsuit against his disaffected client Edith Farnsworth.”—Booklist (starred review)
“This authoritative biography of Mies van der Rohe has been updated through building records, the recollections of students and a court transcript. It's a gripping read.”—Christopher Woodward, Building Design

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The University of Chicago Press
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November 1, 2012
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“Franz Schulze’s 1985 biography of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has always been acknowledged as the most comprehensive and thoughtful biography of one of the key figures in twentieth-century architecture. This revised edition with significant new scholarship by its two authors will undoubtedly come to occupy the same position.” -- Dietrich Neumann, Brown University

“A herculean, generally successful effort to present Mies’s work in terms of both character and context. . . .This book has obviously been a long labor of love and respect for which no source has been left untouched.”

-- Ada Louise Huxtable, on the previous edition

“[A] distinguished and eloquent biography.”

-- Paul Goldberger, on the previous edition

“The most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best. . . . Because no writer has ever before probed into Mies’s life at such depth, we have here the first definitive reconstruction of the architect’s personal habits, loves, fears, triumphs, loneliness and (in his old age) agonies.”

-- Paul Gabb, on the previous edition ― Chicago Tribune

“This excellent revised edition of a work originally published in 1985, has 138 illustrations, incisive descriptions of Mies’ innovative creations and a fascinating account of his Pyrrhic victory in a lawsuit against his disaffected client Edith Farnsworth.”

― Booklist, Starred Review

"One recent book, however, has been largely overlooked by reviewers, perhaps because it appears to be merely a revised edition of a volume that Mies lovers already have on their bookshelves. Other than the title, though, the book is a completely different animal. . . . Fresh research into Mies’s American commissions, among them the troubled history of his most alluring American residential work—a transparent glass house for the eminent nephrologist Dr. Edith Farnsworth—has resulted in an almost entirely new book.”

― Architectural Digest

“This authoritative biography of Mies van der Rohe has been updated through building records, the recollections of students and a court transcript. It's a gripping read, even if you're not a fan.”

-- Christopher Woodword ― Building Design --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Franz Schulze is the Hollender Professor of Art Emeritus at Lake Forest College. His many books include Philip Johnson: Life and Work and, as coauthor, Chicago’s Famous Buildings, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Edward Windhorst studied architecture with Myron Goldsmith at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has written two other books about modern architecture in Chicago. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009PS2L5K
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of Chicago Press; Second edition (November 1, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 38408 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 722 pages

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Worth the money.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2020

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Have not finished reading yet, but can say with absolute authority that this revised edition is marvelous reading for anyone interested in this field of architecture, history, furniture and art. Lots of illustrations. All pictures are black and white. Glad I found it.

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Nicholas T. Fox

Excellent Text on Mies van der Rohe

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 3, 2008

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This is a great book you'll come back to again and again and if you don't have it, then your library is incomplete. Shulze has obviously did his research and come up with a readable and fascinating story that tracks Mies's work all the way from Aachen to Chicago. I can't say enough in praise of this work. Where other authors skim the surface when writing about Mies and his work, Schulze dives deeply into the pond and reveals some fascinating background information on the man, his time and his work. I cannot recommend this book enough and feel it should be a text for all architectural students. My only regret is that I should have read it 20 years ago.

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John M Novack

A superbly researched update of a "Must Have" predecessor!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 5, 2013

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Interning and practicing in Chicago at CF Murphy's in the 1960s, early 1970s was as du Boise described Chicago architecture's then-focus - all Mies.

A delicious time to be in Chicago. Franz Schultze and Edward Windhorst captures this energetic informing of we, the great unwashed, accurately memorializing not only the serious theory/building coming from Mies's office, but from his students including Brownson, Summers, Goldsmith and (importantly) from the student's students, such as the prolific and talented Helmut Jahn.

As within this book, Mies's European past was there always, illuminating this energy, underlying its very foundations, literally and phenomenally.

Great, great book!

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DPrette

Excellent Architectural Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 12, 2018

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Excellent read for those wanting to study Mies and his gal always impact on architecture.

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Philip Lanier

In depth story of one of the 20th Century's most ...