Présentation de l'éditeur :
A number of reasons have led us to the complete publication of Mies van
der Rohe's single-family houses. To begin with, this publication
responds to the lack of such a publication about Mies's domestic work;
the most complete one to be found was published in German in 1981:
Tegethoff, Wolf, Mies van der Rohe: Die Villen und Landhausprojekte, R. Bacht, Essen, 1981 (English version: Mies van der Rohe: The villas and country houses,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1985).
Notwithstanding its rigour,
it omitted the early European work and some of the unbuilt American
designs, focussing on what we might call the architect's classic phase.
The repercussions of this book were enormous and it opened up new
perspectives in the study of Mies's oeuvre, shedding light on buildings
that were hitherto all but unknown. In his American phase, when his
work was beginning to be valued in all its magnitude and he was the
object of exhibitions and publications, Mies van der Rohe consciously
concealed his early buildings, and very few of them came to light in
the first monographs on him. The destruction of the documents stored in
his Berlin studio on Am Karlsbad in the mid-1920s contributed, without
a doubt, to the image Mies himself wanted to give of himself. (...)
As far as possible we have tried to accompany the projects with the few
comments, written or verbal, that Mies left behind about his
houses-after all, who better than the author to comment on his own
buildings?
Last but not least, it is worth highlighting the work of research in
numerous archives, which has enabled us to bring together, in a single
volume, documents that in some instances were either unpublished or had
been published in bad quality reproductions. Current techniques for
digitalising documents permit us to see a hitherto unusual amount of
detail.
Introductions
Mies’s house: exhibitionism and collectionism by Beatriz Colomina
Mies the inhabitant by Moisés Puente
Works
Riehl House, Potsdam, 1906-1907
Perls House (1911-1912) and Fuchs extension (1928), Berlin
Werner House, Berlin, 1912-1913
Urbig House, Potsdam, 1915-1917
Eichstaedt House, Berlin, 1921-1923
Mosler House, Potsdam, 1924-1926
Wolf House, Gubin, 1925-1927
Lange and Esters Houses, Krefeld, 1927-1930
Tugendhat House, Brno, 1928-1930
House for a Childless Couple, Berlin, 1931
Lemke House, Berlin, 1932-1933
Photographing the Farnsworth House by Hans-Christian Schink
Farnsworth House, Plano, 1945-1951
McCormick House, Elmhurst, 1951-1952
Morris Greenwald House, Weston, 1951-1956
Biography
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