{"product_id":"mies","title":"Mies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/9818\/5773\/files\/phaidon-logo-desktop.svg?v=1774553229\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"heading-h3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"chevron\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"product-description-accordion\" class=\"panel\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe classic and definitive monograph on iconic architect Mies van der Rohe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the most readable, comprehensive, and beautiful book ever published on one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects, now available with a stunning new cover. Known for the beauty and purity of his work, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built remarkable houses, skyscrapers, museums, and multibuilding campuses. Accompanied by more than 700 drawings, photographs, plans, and diagrams,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMertins’ rich and highly readable text traces the aesthetic and intellectual context for all of Mies van der Rohe’s work, with in-depth discussions of his most important buildings and projects. The clarity of Mies’s architecture belies the diversity of his interests, which included philosophy and science as well as design, and Mertin’s rigorous and accessible text gives the reader a clear description of all the most important of Mies’s buildings as well as the intellectual contexts for their design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncludes such buildings as:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ethe Barcelona Pavilion in Spain; the Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic; S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA; and the New National Gallery in Berlin, Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"heading-h3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"chevron\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"product-author-accordion\" class=\"panel\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"richtext\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe American architectural theorist \u003cstrong\u003eDetlef Mertins\u003c\/strong\u003e made lasting contributions to the theory and history of modernism in architecture, art, philosophy, and urbanism. He taught widely, including professorships at the universities of Pennsylvania, Toronto, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Rice. 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