Studio Paperback monographs on the outstanding architects of the 20th century - concise and informative overviews of the complete works written and edited by noted authors. Each volume contains biographical details and a work chronology.
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Studio Paperback monographs on the outstanding architects of the 20th century - concise and informative overviews of the complete works written and edited by noted authors. Each volume contains biographical details and a work chronology.
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Seller's Description:
VG in VG jacket. Hardcover in grey cloth with white titles to spine, in white and black photo-illustrated jacket, 8" x 5 1/2". Revised edition (first is 1965). 203pp. Chronology, project list. B/W photos and line drawings throughout (all on paper). VG/VG. Pages well-toned but clean and unmarked, shelving soil upper page edges, binding tight and square; mild rubbing to cloth along upper edges and stress crease across upper spine but cloth overall sharp and clean. Jacket has light abrasion along upper edges with two closed tears internally tape-repaired. Toned but clean and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart. Neither ex-lib nor remainder.
Edition:
Revised Edition [stated] Presumed first printing thus
Publisher:
Praeger
Published:
1972
Alibris ID:
17553028913
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Good in Good jacket. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8 inches. 203 pages. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some page discoloration noted. The contents include and Introduction, Miles van der Rohe: A personal Statement, The approach to structure, Court houses with steel columns, Mies van der Rohe: Principles of architectural Education, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago: steel-frame campus buildings, Truss construction with suspended roof, Glass houses with a steel frame. Steel-and-glass apartment towers, Steel-framed office buildings with glass curtain wall, Town-planning, and Hall construction with a wide-span roof. The first edition as published in 1965. Walter Blaser was a professional architect who practiced in Helsinki under Alvar Aalto and participated in numerous exhibitions throughout the word. His interests, like Mies van der Rohe, included furniture design, and in 1955 he won the first prize at the Italian Furniture Exhibition. He is also the author of two books on Japanese architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886-August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect and furniture designer. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture. In the 1930s, Mies was the last director of the Bauhaus, a ground-breaking school of modernist art, design and architecture. After Nazism's rise to power, with its strong opposition to modernism (leading to the closing of the Bauhaus itself), Mies emigrated to the United States. He accepted the position to head the architecture school at what is today the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Mies sought to establish his own particular architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. The style he created made a statement with its extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces. He strove toward an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of unobstructed free-flowing open space. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture. He sought an objective approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design, but was always concerned with expressing the spirit of the modern era. He is often associated with his fondness for the aphorisms "less is more" and "God is in the details"
