Mies van der Rohe: Architect as Educator (eds. Rolf Achilles, Kevin Harrington & Charlotte Myhrum; Illinois Institute of Technology 1986) is an exhibition book published in conjunction with an exhibition at IIT between 6 June and 12 July 1986.
It is the tritest and trues of all accolades to great teachers that they taught their students “to thine own self be true.” That is what the world, currently obsessed with the idea of Mies as some kind of tyrant bent on imposing a single reductionist style, does not yet want to believe of him, but in the end it will have to, because that is what he did. The selves to which they were true were not always noble souls or designers of genius, and the truth they could generate might be moderst, but htey all did what they could do on the basis of a better understanding of the practice of architecture, an understanding which may have been narrow in its footings in the art of building, but was firm enought o support whaterver expansive visions might come to them in their later lives as professionals of architecture.
– Reyner Banham, “The master of humane architecture”. In: Mies van der Rohe: Architect as Educator, p. 16.
The text is in English, with black-and-white photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy is in good condition. The pages are clean; no markings. There is some slight toning on the edges of the pages. The glueing of the binding is fine. The covers show some small traces of shelf wear and use.
