This book provides a sound analysis of Mies' buildings by Carsten Krohn, a proven expert of his work, and features all the ground plans of the buildings redrawn in their built.
MIES VAN DER ROHE. The Built Work is an essential and comprehensive monograph which focuses in its analysis on Mies' design intentions: it reconstructs the buildings in their orginal state, examines them from the present day persepctive and rediscovers the inspiring architecture of a great modern master.
The book MIES VAN DER ROHE. The Built Work presents eighty of Mies' works in chronological order. Approximately thirty of these works are analyzed in detail in three parts.
This book provides a sound analysis of Mies' buildings by Carsten Krohn, a proven expert of his work, and features all the ground plans of the buildings redrawn in their built state.
MIES VAN DER ROHE. The Built Work is an essential and comprehensive monograph which focuses in its analysis on Mies' design intentions: it reconstructs the buildings in their orginal state, examines them from the present day persepctive and rediscovers the inspiring architecture of a great modern master.
The book MIES VAN DER ROHE. The Built Work presents eighty of Mies' works in chronological order. Approximately thirty of these works are analyzed in detail in three parts. In the first part, the construction is documented in its built state; for this all the ground plans were redrawn by the author. The second part outlines the changes to the buildings and the third part develops the results of this investigation with regard to their relevance to the contemporary view of Mies' work.