Mies Van Der Rohe - The Built Work

New look at the achievements of an icon

This
essential and comprehensive Mies monograph focuses in its analysis on
Mies' design intentions: it reconstructs the buildings in their original
state, examines them from the present day persepctive and rediscovers
the inspiring architecture of a great modern master. The book 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.

• Sound analysis of Mies' buildings by a proven expert of his work
• All the ground plans of the buildings redrawn in their built state by the author