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Starred Review on March 1, 2014 | Arts and Humanities
With 849 title entries on "Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig—1886–1969" in WorldCat, the union catalog of 72,000 libraries, do we need another book on the master of universal space, heir to the Platonic ideal, and pursuer of the perfectly understated environment? For those interested in the intellectual context of the work—in Mies as philosopher-architect—the answer is "yes." Tracing a chronological arc, Mies, with its suitably terse title, is divided into five chapters highli...Log In or Sign Up to Read More