Mies van der Rohe: Architecture and Design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno (Vitra Design Museum, 1998), edited by Alexander von Vegesack and Matthias Kries, is a thorough study of Mies’s key European projects and his achievements as a furniture designer and architect.
Mies van der Rohe ranks alongside Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier as one of the most influential and important architects of our century. He was not only an accomplished and groundbreaking architect but also a first-rate, long-term lecturer and organiser of architectural events. It is thanks to his most important European building projects, the German pavilion for the Barcelona World Fair (1929) and the Villa Tugendhat in Brno that modern architecture was able to emerge from his experimental phase into full maturity. This book documents Mies van der Rohe’s oeuvre as furniture designer and architect in the context of his three major European projects in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno.
– Alexander von Vegesack and Matthias Kries (eds.) Mies van der Rohe: Architecture and Design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno (Vitra Design Museum, 1998), book description
The text is in English. The book is profusely illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our current copy is in good condition. The pages are clean; no markings except for the previous owner’s small name tag on the first flyleaf. The glueing of the binding is a bit dry, but there are no fractures yet, and the volume is in one piece. The covers show some small traces of shelf wear and use.
