Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time

Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time by Dietrich Neumann A landmark survey, offering a nuanced and deeply researched account of the career and life of the iconic modern architect  “A balanced look at the architect in the context of his reception and impact, complete with photographs of Mies’s realized works and a selection of his early sketches. . . . In describing the architect’s often radical, sometimes brilliant and deeply flawed vision . . . Mr. Neumann simultaneously tells the story of 20th-century American and European modernism.”—Cammy Brothers, Wall Street Journal, “Holiday Gift Books: Architecture”   Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) was a German-born American architect and designer whose work in Europe and North America has had an enduring influence on modern and contemporary architecture worldwide. During his sixty-year career, he fundamentally rethought architectural types that shaped modern life, including the office building, apartment building, and private home. True to his alleged di