Volume 33, Number 10 · June 12, 1986
Building & Nothingness
By Martin Filler
Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography Modern Art
by Franz Schulze. in association with the Mies van der Rohe Archive of the Museum of
University of Chicago Press, 355 pp., $39.95
Mies van der Rohe
by David Spaeth, preface by Kenneth Frampton
Rizzoli, 205 pp., $25.00
Mies van der Rohe: The Villas and Country Houses
by Wolf Tegethoff
Museum of Modern Art (distributed by MIT Press), 223 pp., $55.00
Mies van der Rohe: Architect as Educator (distributed by University of Chicago Press)
Catalog for Exhibition at S. R. Crown Hall, June 6–July 12, 1986.
Mies Centennial Project at the Illinios Institute of Technology, 168 pp., $15.00 (paper)
Mies van der Rohe Centennial Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York February 10–April 15, 1986. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago May 9–August 10, 1986
Mies van der Rohe: Drawings
Max Protetch Gallery, New York February 5–March 1, 1986
Mies
A film produced and directed by Michael Blackwood
The centennial of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born in Aachen on March 27, 1886) has brought forth a flood of books, exhibitions, symposia, films, and other observances reminding us that their subject was indeed one of the most important figures in the history of architecture. That fact has become increasingly easy to forget since his death in 1969, but the revisionist view of Mies as the Ursprung of the visual sterility and spiritual stagnation of Late Modernism was under way well before then. A leader in that revolt against one of the founding fathers of Modernism was Philip Johnson, who as a young man idolized Mies, in middle age copied from and collaborated with him, and in old age has renounced both the Miesian philosophy and its reductivist aesthetic. As early as 1959 Johnson observed:
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