Mies van der Rohe: A Selective Bibliography

Compiled by Aileen Smith, March 2009

This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to Mies van der Rohe. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark.

Books (Alphabetically by title) Anatomy of architectural interpretations: a semiotic review of Mies van der Rohes Barcelona Pavilion / Juan Pablo Bonta Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1975
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Artless word: Mies van der Rohe on the building art / Fritz Neumeyer London: MIT Press, 1991
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Barcelona-Pavillon: Mies van der Rohe: architecture and sculpture / Ursel Berger and Thomas Pavel Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2007 ISBN 9783939633068
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Bauhaus and America: first contacts 1919-1936 / Margret Kentgens-Craig (Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999 ISBN 026211237X
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73) KEN

Building a new Europe: portraits of modern architects / essays by George Nelson, 1935-36; introduction by Kurt W Forster; foreword by Robert A M Stern (includes George Nelson talking with Mies van der Rohe) New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007 ISBN 9780300115659
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Building desire: on the Barcelona Pavilion / George Dodds 2005 ISBN 0415325242
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London: Routledge,

Changing the art of inhabitation: Mies pieces, Eames dreams, the Smithsons / Alison Smithson London: Artemis, 1994
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Conversations with Mies van der Rohe / edited by Moises Puente Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 ISBN 9781568987538
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New York:

Design after Mies / Any, 24, edited by Cynthia Davidson / Corporation, 1999
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New York: Anyone

Farnsworth House: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Maritz Vandenberg Phaidon, 2003 ISBN 0714831522
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London:

Fear of glass: Mies van der Rohes Pavilion in Barcelona / Joseph Quetglas Basel: Birkhauser, 2001 ISBN 3764363398
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From Schinkel to the Bauhaus: five lectures on the growth of modern German architecture / Julius Posener (Architectural Association Paper, 5) London: Lund Humphries, 1972
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Hilberseimer / Mies van der Rohe: Lafayette Park Detroit / edited by Charles Waldheim Munich: Prestel, 2004 ISBN 3791330446
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Illustrated catalogue of the Mies van der Rohe drawings in the Museum of Modern Art: Mies van der Rohe Archive / edited by Arthur Drexler; with introductory notes by Arthur Drexler and Franz Schulze New York; London: Garland Publisher, 1986-1992 (AA Library has vols 1-4, 7-9, 12, 15-18, 20)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):9292MIE DRE (GALL-REF)

Looking for Mies / Ricardo Daza ISBN 3764362383

Barcelona: Actar; Basel: Birkhauser, 2000

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Max Bill

Milan: Il Balcone, 1955 London: Mayflower, 1960

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Arthur Drexler

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: the Tugendhat House / edited by Daniela HammerTugendhat, Wolf Tegethoff Wien: Springer, 2000 ISBN 3211830650
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Jean-Louis Cohen ISBN 9783764379605

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Basel: Birkhauser, 2007

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich: furniture and interiors / Christiane Lange Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006 ISBN 9783775719216

Master builders: Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright / Peter Blake New York: W. W. Norton, 1976
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Mies in America / edited by Phyllis Lambert; essays by Werner Oechslin [et al] New York: H. N. Abrams, 2001 ISBN 0810967286
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Mies in Berlin / Terence Riley, Barry Bergdoll; with essays by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani [at al] New York: MoMA, 2001 ISBN 0870700189
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Mies reconsidered: his career, legacy and disciples / John Zukowsky Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1986
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Mies van der Rohe / Werner Blaser Mies van der Rohe / Jean-Louis Cohen
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London: Thames and Hudson, 1972 London: Spon, 1996 New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1947

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Mies van der Rohe / Philip Johnson

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Mies van der Rohe / Philip Johnson

London: Secker & Warburg, 1970

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Mies van der Rohe / texts by Yehuda Safran; edited by Luiz Trigueiros and Paulo Martins Barata Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2001
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Mies van der Rohe / Francisco Asensio Cerver ISBN 9783823855811

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Kempen: te Neues, 2002

Mies van der Rohe / Ludwig Hilberseimer

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Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1956

Mies van der Rohe, 1886-1969: the structure of space / Claire Zimmerman Koln: Taschen, 2006 ISBN 9783822836439
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Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno / Vitra Design Museum; editors Alexander von Vegesack, Mathias Kries Milan: Skira: Vitra Design Museum, 1998 ISBN 8881183951
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Mies van der Rohe: architecture and structure / Peter Blake Penguin/Pelican, 1960
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Harmondsworth:

Mies van der Rohe: the art of structure / Werner Blaser Hudson, 1965
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London: Thames and

Mies van der Rohe at work / Peter Carter ISBN 0269283048

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London: Pall Mall Press, 1974

Mies van der Rohe Award for European architecture / introduction by Kenneth Frampton London: Butterworth, 1990
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Mies van der Rohe: Barcelona Pavilion / Ignasi de Sola-Morales, Cristian Cirici, Fernando Ramos Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1998 ISBN 8425216079
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Mies van der Rohe: critical biography / Franz Schulze University Press, 1985
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Chicago/London: Chicago

Mies van der Rohe: critical essays / Franz Schulze and others Museum of Modern Art, 1989
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New York:

Mies van der Rohe: Crown Hall, ITT, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1952-56; New National Gallery, Berlin, West Germany 1968 / text by Ludwig Glaeser Tokyo: ADA Edita, 1972
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Mies van der Rohe: European works / Architectural Monographs, 11 London: Academy Editions, 1986 ISBN 085670685
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Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1945-50 / text by Dirk Lohan (Global Architecture Detail, 1) Tokyo: ADA Edita, 1976
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Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House: weekend house / Werner Blaser Basel: Birkhauser, 1999 ISBN 3764360895
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Mies van der Rohes Farnsworth House / Paul Clemence Publishing, 2007 ISBN 9780764324437
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Atglen, PA: Schiffer

Mies van der Rohe: German Pavilion, International Exposition, Barcelona, Spain, 1928-29 / Global Archtiecture, 75 Tokyo: ADA Edita, 1995
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Mies van der Rohe: the Krefeld villas / Kent Kleinman and Leslie Van Duzer New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005 ISBN 1568985037
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Mies van der Rohe: Lake Shore Drive apartments: high-rise building / Werner Blaser Basel: Birkhauser, 1999 ISBN 3764360909
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Mies van der Rohe: a retrospective exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in collaboration with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts / A James Speyer Chicago: Chicago Art Institute, 1968
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Mies van der Rohe; sa carriere, son heritage et ses disciples / Centre Georges Pompidou Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1987
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Mies van der Rohe: the villas and country houses / Wolf Tegethoff New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1985
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Presence of Mies / Detlef Mertins 1994

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New York: Princeton Architectural Press,

Reflections: Mies van der Rohe Pavilion / Josep M Rovira I Gimeno Triangle Postals, 2002 ISBN 8484780392
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Barcelona:

Seagram Building / Photographs by Ezra Stoller; introduction by Franz Schulze New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999 ISBN 1568982011
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Strange details (Writing Architecture Series) / Michael Cadwell (includes Mies van der Rohe) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007 ISBN 9780262532914
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Taming Mies van der Rohes Farnsworth House (1945-1951): the art of collecting architecture / Irene Sunwoo London: Architectural Association, 2004 AA (MA) Histories and Theories of Architecture Thesis, 2004
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Teaching at the Bauhaus: the standard work on the groundbreaking pedagogical concepts of the Bauhaus / Rainer K Wick Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000 ISBN 3776708014
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Ten canonical buildings 1950-2000 / Peter Eisenman; foreword by Stan Allen; edited by Ariane Lourie New York: Rizzoli, 2008 ISBN 9780847830480 (includes Mies van der Rohe)
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Towards universality: Le Corbusier, Mies and De Stijl / Richard Padovan London: Routledge, 2002 ISBN 0419240306
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Translations from drawing to building and other essays / Robin Evans London: AA Publications, 1997 ISBN 187089068X (includes essay Mies van der Rohes paradoxical symmetries)
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Villa of the Tugendhats created by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Brno / Dusan Riedl Brno: The Heritage Institute, Brno, in cooperation with the Brno City Museum, 1997
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Visionary architecture: blueprints of the modern imagination / Neil Spiller London: Thames and Hudson, 2006 ISBN 9780500342268 (includes projects by Mies van der Rohe)
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West meets East Mies van der Rohe / Werner Blaser

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Basel: Birkhauser, 1996

Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month) 2007 How Henri Lefebvre missed the modernist sensibility of Mies van der Rohe: vitalism at the intersection of a materialist conception of space and a metaphysical approach to architecture / article by Victoria Watson in The Journal of Architecture, 12 (1) February 2007 / p.99-111 2006 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: larchitettura non e un martini cocktail = Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: architecture is not a martini cocktail [interview] / article by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Peter Carter In Casabella, 70 ( 741) February 2006 / p.3-5 (text in Italian+English) Taming the Farnsworth House / article by Irene Sunwoo in Thresholds (31) 2006 / p.66-75 2005 Miess event space [New National Gallery, Berlin] / article by Detlef Mertins in Grey Room (20) Summer 2005 / p.60-73 Stimmung at Seagram: Philip Johnson counters Mies van der Rohe / article by Phyllis Lambert in Grey Room (20) Summer 2005 / p.38-59 2004 The unbearable lightness of building: a cautionary tale / article by Derek Sayer (on the true history of the Barcelona Pavilion, Miess work in Czechoslovakia etc) in Grey Room (16) Summer 2004 / p.6-35 Farnsworth: the lightness of being / article by Paul Goldberger in Preservation, 56 (4) July/August 2004 / p.36-39 Mies a Montreal = Mies in Montreal / article by Mario Carpo and Roberto Zancan in Architecture dAujourdhui (350) January-February 2004 / p.104-109

Farnsworth House saved / article by Sam Lubell (preservation groups have purchased the Farnsworth House at auction) in Architectural Record, 192 (1) January 2004 / p.157 2003 Masters of light: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois / article by Henry Plummer in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism Extra Edition November 2003 / p.262-267 (text in Japanese+English) Mies van der Rohe house discovered, mystery remains / article by Dietrich Neumann (Villa Heusgen, Krefeld) in Architectural Record, 191 (110 November 2003 / p.34 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Riehl House, Potsdam, Germany, 1906-1907 in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (388) January 2003 / p.17-24 (text in Japanese+English) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Perls House, Berlin, Germany, 1911-1912 in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (388) January 2003 / p.40-41 (text in Japanese+English) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Esters House, Krefeld, Germany, 1927-1930 in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (388) January 2003 / p.88-95 (text in Japanese+English) Mies van der Rohe: Hermann Lange House, Krefeld, Germany in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (388) January 2003 / p.96-103 (text in Japanese+English) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain, 1929 in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (388) January 2003 / p.104-111 (text in Japanese+English) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Tugendhat House, Brno, Czech Republic, 1928/ in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (388) January 2003 / p.112-121 (text in Japanese+English) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Lemke House, Berlin, Germany, 1932-1933 in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (388) January 2003 / p.122125

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, Illinois, USA, 1946-1951 in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (388) January 2003 / p.126-135 (text in Japanese+English) Mies and Japan / article by Hajime Yatsuka in Cornell Journal of Architecture (7) 2003 / p.52-62 The modern eye-catcher: Mies van der Rohe and sculpture / article by Penelope Curtis in ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly, 7 (3-4) 2003 / p.361-370 Maleno & manje: u prilog asemblazu = Small & less: in favor of assemblage / article by Nikola Polak in Oris, 5 (19) 2003 / p.4-15 (text in Serbo-Croatian+English) 2002 Absolut MiesTM, Absolut modern: building good copy / article by Brett Steele in AA Files no.48 Winter 2002 / p.2-14 Mies van der Rohe: a drawing and a letter to a client / article by Victoria Watson in Journal of Architecture, 7 (4) Winter 2002 / p.355-360 Absolut Mies, absolute modern / article by Brett Steele in Arch Plus (161) June 2002 / p.46-57 (text in German) Tugendhat Frames / article by Claire Zimmerman (Mies van der Rohes Villa Tugendhat, Brno. Czech Republic, 1930) in Arch Plus (161) June 2002 / p.22-31 (text in German) Mies van der Rohe today (considers the contemporaneity of Mies van der Rohe) in Kenchiku Bunka, 57 (658) April 2002 / p.73-84 (text in Japanese) 2001 Tugendhat frames / article by Claire Zemmerman in Harvard Design Magazine (15) Fall 2001 / p.24-31

Mies ad usum Delphini: 60 anos en 60 obras = 60 years in 60 works / article by Luis Fernandez-Galiano in AV Monografias = AV Monographs (92) November-December 2001 / p.4-73 (text in Spanish+English) Hacer historia: Mies y el MoMA = Making history: Mies and the MoMA in AV Monografias = AV Monographs (92) November-December 2001 / p.96-115 (text in Spanish+English) Mies van der Rohe: House Lange - House Esters, Krefeld, Germany, 1928 / article by Kent Kleinman and Leslie Van Duzer in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (373) October 2001 / p.22-27 (text in Japanese+English) Mies van der Rohe: the unabridged version [exhibition review] / article by Franz Schulze in Art in America, 89 (10) October 2001 / p.118-127 Alien 5044325: Miess first trip to America / article by Cammie D McAtee (the story of Mies van der Rohes arrival in the US in the 1930s, and the overtures he received from Philip Johnson at MoMA and Joseph Hudnut at Harvard) in Harvard Design Magazine (14) Summer 2001 / p.69-75 Reassessing Mies / article by Jayne Merkel (symposium on Mies at Pratt Institute) in Oculus, 63 (9) May-June 2001 / p.10-11 2 x Mies: a pair of shows at MoMA and the Whitney reveals overlooked aspects of his legacy [exhibition review of Mies in Berlin at MoMA; and Mies in America at the Whitney] in Architectural Record, 189 (5) May 2001 / p.81-82 Mies van der Rohe: le case Lange e Esters a Krefeld, dalla costruzion al restauro = Mies van der Rohe: the Lange and Esters Houses in Krefeld, from construction to restoration / article by Wolf Tegethoff in Casabella, 65 (689) May 2001 / p.22-29 (text in Italian+English) Cullinan Hall: a window on modern Houston / article by Stephen Fox in Journal of Architectural Education, 54 (3) February 2001 / p.158-166

2000/2001 Mies van der Rohe in Casabella, 64 (684-685) December 2000/January 2001 / p.3849 (text in Italian, with English captions) 2000 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, USA, 1950 / article by Ken Tadashi Oshima in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (10) October 2000 / p.12-31, 272 (text in Japanese+English) Gin palace / article by Nicola Turner (redesign of the Brasserie restaurant in the Seagram Building in New York. Original Architects: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson; renovation architects: Diller + Scofidio) in World Architecture (88) July-August 2000 / p.86-91 Ludwig Mies van der Rohes Tugendhat House: a model home of its time? / article by Wolf Tegethoff in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (3) March 2000 / p.146-159, 160-167 (text in Japanese+English) In perspective: conceptual vs. actual structure / article by Robin Evans (excerpt from Mies van der Rohes paradoxical symmetries) in Perspecta (31) 2000 / p.46-49 Toward a technological architecture?: case study of the Illinois Institute of Technology Commons Building / article by Edward R Ford and Thomas Beeby in Perspecta (31) 2000 / p.10-21 1999 Les symetries paradoxales de Mies van der Rohe / article by Robin Evans in Le Visiteur (4) Summer 1999 / p.48-77 Abstract architecture and the desire to make something that is new / article by Victoria Watson (use of the grid by Mondrian in art, by L Hilbersmeimer in city planning and Mies in Farnsworth House) in Journal of Architecture, 4 (1) Spring 1999 / p.81-87

The absence of architecture: Mies und die Moderne / article by Hannes Bohringer in Arch Plus (146) April 1999 / p.56-58 (text in German) Mies, myself and me: notes on the architecture of Mies van der Rohe / article by Diane Lewis in Daidalos (71) 1999 / p.28-37 This is only a test [ITT Campus, Chicago / article by Ed Mitchell (an analysis of the influence of Mies van der Rohes campus on postwar architects) in Any no.24 1999 / p.28-35 1998 The significance of facts: Miess collages up close and personal / article by Neil Levine (on Miess three projects from the years 1938 to 1942 that are best known through collages: the Resor House (1937-1939), the Museum for a Small City (1941-1942) and the Concert Hall for the Museum (1941-1942) in Assemblage (37) December 1998 / p.70-101 Le pavillon de Barcelone revisite: Mies van der Rohe, 1929 in Architecture dAujourdhui no.318 September 1998 / p.[68-73] (text in French, with English summary) Mies van der Rohe, vol.2 in Kenchiku Bunka, 53 (616) February 1998 / p.21-205 (text in Japanese, with English summary) Mies van der Rohe: the built work, vol.1 in Kenchiku Bunka, 53 (615) January 1998 / p.21-198 (text in Japanese, with English summary) 1995 Mies van der Rohe: German Pavilion, International Exposition, Barcelona; and Tugendhat House, Brno, Czechoslovakia / article by Fritz Neumeyer in GA: Global Architecture no.75 1995 / p.1-47 (text in Japanese+English)

1994 Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue, 52nd to 53rd Streets: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, 1958 in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism Extra Edition December 1994 / p.258-[267] (text in Japanese+English) Beatriz Colomina: Mies Not / article by Beatriz Colomina (thoughts on the authors feelings about Mies van der Rohe) in Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Newsline, 6 (3) January-February 1994 / p.2 1993 Mies: teaching methods of Mies and Hilberseimer / article by David A Spaeth in Inland Architect, 37 (4) July-August 1993 / p.49-52 The horizontal symmetry of Mies van der Rohe / article by Randall Ott in Dimensions, 7 Spring 1993 / p.112-131 1992 Il padiglione di Barcellona e larte di dimenticare [The Barcelona Pavilion and the art of forgetting]; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Casabella vol.56 no.592 July/August 1992 / p.46-51 (text in Italian) Three early designs by Mies van der Rohe / article by Dietrich Neumann (three unexecuted projects: the curvilinear skyscraper for Friedrichstrasse competition (1922); the concrete office building for the Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung (1923); and the concrete country house for that Great Berlin exhibition) in Perspecta (27) 1992 / p.76-97 1990 The Barcelona Pavilion as landscape garden: modernity and the picturesque / article by Caroline Constant in AA Files no.20 Autumn 1990 / p.47-54

Mies van der Rohe: Vintage photographs and drawings [exhibition review] / article by Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange and Phyllis Lambert in Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Newsline, 2 (8) May 1990 / p.8 Mies van der Rohes paradoxical symmetries / article by Robin Evans in AA Files no.19 Spring 1990 / p.56-68 1989 Mies van der Rohe: the genealogy of column and wall / article by Gevork Hartoonian in Journal of Architectural Education, 42 (2) Winter 1989 / p.43-50 1987 Mies van der Rohes New National Gallery and the problem of context / article by Mark Jarzombek in Assemblage no.2 February 1987 / p.[32]-43 1986 Villa Tugendhat, Brno (1928-1930) / article by Jan Sapak in Domus no.678 December 1986 / p.[25]-37 (text in Italian+English) Farnsworth-Haus in Plano, Illinois von Mies van der Rohe 1945-50 / article by Werner Blaser in Detail, 26 November-December 1986 / p.526-529 (text in German) Barcelona: reconstruction of the Barcelona Pavilion / article by Warren A James in Progressive Architecture, 67 August 1986 / p.61-67 Mies at MoMA: a visionary in context [exhibition review] / article by Joseph Giovannini in ArtNews, 85 May 1986 / p.100-106 A posthumous Mies: two views / article by Martin Filler and Joseph Rykwert in Art in America, 74 April 1986 / p.152-157

Reflections on onyx / article by Joseph Masheck (on Mies) in Art in America, 74 April 1986 / p.138-151 Farnsworth impressions / article by Peter Palumbo in Inland Architect, 30 March-April 1986 / p.42-47 Reflections on the Mies centennial / article by James Gowan in Architectural Design, 56 1986 / p.6-11 Mies van der Rohe: a moral modernist model / article by Stanley Tigerman in Perspecta no.22 1986 / p.112-135 The Barcelona Pavilion: the walls came first / article by Pere Joan Ravetllat in Sites no.15 1986 / p.36-42 The politics of Mies van der Rohe / article by Elaine S Hochman in Sites no.15 1986 / p.44-49 1985/1986 Mies van der Rohe Centennial Exhibition, the Museum of Modern Art, New York in Structurist no.25-26 1985-1986 / p.139-142 1985 Pavilion and pool at Mies van der Rohe House, Weston, Connecticut, 1982 in GA Houses no.17 February 1985 / p.[24]-31 (text in Japanese+English) 1984 On the development of the conception of space in the works of Mies van der Rohe / article by Wolf Tegethoff in Daidalos no.13 September 15, 1984 / p.114-123 (text in German+English) The Seagram Building wins AIAs 25-year Award (completed 1957. Architect: Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson) in Architecture, 73 April 1984 / p.22, 25

Critical architecture: between culture and form / article by K Michael Hays (modern architecture with emphasis on works by Mies van der Rohe) in Perspecta no.21 1984 / p.14-29 1983 Miess greatest bequest / article by Gerald R McSheffrey in Architectural Education no.3 1983 / p.108-113 1982 Architecture of independent elements: Miesian design approach / article by Masami Takayama in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (141) June 1982 / p.11-16 (text in Japanese+English) Crown of the city: the Seagram building reconsidered / article by Kurt Walter Forster in Skyline. February 1982 / p.28-29 1980 Mies New National Gallery: an essay on architectural content / article by Peter Serenyi in Harvard Architecture Review, 1 Spring 1980 / p.180-189 1979 History: Confrontation: 1933 Mies van der Rohe and the Third Reich / article by Elaine Hochman in Oppositions (18) Fall 1979 / p.48-59 Miesian space concept in domestic architecture / article by Howard Dearstyne in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (103) April 1979 / p.3-8 (text in Japanese) Who and what inspired Mies van der Rohe in Germany / article by Sandra Honey in Architectural Design, 49 (2-3) 1979 / p.99-102

1978 Mies at the Bauhaus / article by Sandra Honey in AA Quarterly, 10 (1) 1978 / p.51-59 Organic versus classic / article by Peter Blundell-Jones (Mies van der Rohe / Hans Scharoun) in AA Quarterly, 10 (1) 1978 / p.10-20 1977 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / article by Reginald Malcolmson and others (A paradox of humility and superstar) in Inland Architect, 21 May 1977 / whole issue The New York convention center: another episode in the crisis of modern architecture / article by Juan Pablo Bonta in AA Quarterly, 9 nos.3-4 1977 / p.[82]-90 1976 Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1945-1950; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / article by Kirk Lohan in Global Architecture Detail, 1 1976 / p.1-59 (text in Japanese+English) 1972 Mies van der Rohes last work: the Toronto-Dominion Centre forms a magnificently vital new focal point of great structures and open plazas for downtown Toronto in Contract Interiors, 132 (2) September 1972 / p.116-123 The IBM Tower: 52 stories of glass and steel on a site that seemed almost nonexistent / article by Rob Cuscaden in Inland Architect, 16 (6) July 1972 / p.9-13 The measure of Mies / article by John Winter in Architectural Review, 151 February 1972 / p.95-105 From Schinkel to the Bauhaus: five lectures on the growth of Modern Germany / article by Julius Posener and Dennis Sharp (includes essay Haring, Scharoun, Mies and Le Corbusier) in Architectural Association Papers, 5 1972 / whole issue

1970 He loved space and amplitude, and a wide chair suited him best / article by James Johnson Sweeney (a tribute to Mies van der Rohe) in Inland Architect, 14 (7) August 1970 / p.24-25 1969 Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) in Progressive Architecture, 50 November 1969 / p.8-11 Gropius o Mies / article by Giiovanni Klaus Koenig in Casabella, 33 November 1969 / p.34-39 (text in Italian) Mies / article by Walter McQuade in Architectural Forum, 131 (3) October 1969 / p.90 Mies van der Rohe: some notes on the architect and his work in Architectural Forum, 131 (3) October 1969 / p.35-39 Obituary: Mies van der Rohe 1886-1969 in Architectural Record, 146 (3) September 1969 / p.9 Truth, clarity and order: the messages of Mies in Inland Architect, 13 (8) August-September 1969 / p.9-13 Mies van der Rohe, 1886-1969 / article by Walter Segal in Architects Journal, 150 (35) August 27, 1969 / p.472-475 Obituary: Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) in The New York Times August 19, 1969 Mies van der Rohe / article by Alison and Peter Smithson in Architectural Design, 39 July 1969 / p.363-366 A latterday temple in Berlin (New National Gallery, Berlin; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) in Architectural Design, 39 February 1969 / p.79-88 Mies van der Rohe, 1886-1969 in Arkitekten, 71 (21) 1969 / p.493-495 (text in Danish)

1968 Mies speaks: I do not design buildings, I develop buildings / article by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Architectural Review, 145 December 1968 / p.451-452 Mies in Berlin: new National Gallery, Berlin. in Architectural Review, 145 December 1968 / p.408-414 A Mies monument (The new National Gallery, West Berlin, Germany) in Progressive Architecture, 49 November 1968 / p.108-113 The new National Gallery in Berlin by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Architectural Record, 144 (5) November 1968 / p.115-122 The new National Gallery in Berlin; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Architectural Forum, 129 (3) October 1968 / p.34-47 1967 Germany: Mies roof in Berlin in Arena/Interbuild, 83/14 December 1967 / p.32-35 1966 Gold medal of the Chicago Chapter of the AIA to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Architectural Record July 1966 / p.36 Opere recenti di Mies van der Rohe: School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Illinois; Meredith Memorial Hall, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa; Science Center, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa. / article by Enrico D Bona in Casabella, 30 (306) June 1966 / p.38-45 (text in Italian) The problem of Mies / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Association Journal, 81 May 1966 / p.301-304 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 80 Jahre / article by Werner Blaser and Jurgen Joedicke in Bauen un Wohnen, 20 May 1966 / whole issue (text in German)

Mies at 80 in Progressive Architecture, 47 March 1966 / p.194-195 1965 Mies in Baltimore: slender frame of concrete / article by Donald J Canty in Architectural Forum, 123 (5) December 1965 / p.36-39 Mies designs Federal Center [Chicago] in Architectural Record, 137 March 1965 / p.125-134 Mies urban spaces / article by Peter Carter in Architects Year Book, 11 1965 / p.11-25 1964 Recent work of Mies van der Rohe in the US (Charles Center Office building, Baltimore; Home Federal building, Des Moines, Iowa; Federal Center, Chicago; Gallery of the 20th century, Berlin) in Architectural Design, 34 January 1964 / p.10-22 1963 Mies (One Charles Center, Baltimore; Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Des Moines, Iowa; Museum of 20th century art, Berlin; Lafayette Towers, Detroit, Michigan; 2400 Lakeview Apartments, Chicago, Illinois) in Architectural Forum, 119 September 1963 / p.80-91 1962 Charles Center Office Building, Baltimore; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Architectural Design, 32 October 1962 / p.477-478 Bacardi Building, Mexico City; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Architectural Design, 32 October 1962 / p.470-473 Administration Building (Ron Bacardi Administration Building, Mexico City; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) in Arts & Architecture, 79 May 1962 / p.18-19

Mies builds in Mexico (Ron Bacardi Co., Mexico City; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) in Architectural Forum, 116 January 1962 / p.92-95 An administrative building in Mexico (Ron Bacardi Administration Building, Mexico City; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) in Zodiac, 10 1962 / p.182-187 1961 Towards a unity (Mies van der Rohe) in Arts & Architecture, 78 April 1961 / p.10-13 Mies van der Rohe, an appreciation on the occasion of his 75th birthday / article by Peter Carter in Architectural Design, 31 March 1961 / p.95-121 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, winner, gold medal, American Institute of Architects in Architectural Record March 1960 / p.25 Mies van der Rohe and the platonic verities / article by James Marston Fitch in Columbia University. School of Architecture. Four Great Makers of Modern Architecture, 1961 / p.154-163 People, mass production, and the Miesian universal / article by Peter Blake in Columbia University. School of Architecture. Four Great Makers of Modern Architecture, 1961 / p.146-153 Miesian space concept in domestic architecture / article by Howard Dearstyne in Columbia University. School of Architecture. Four Great Makers of Modern Architecture, 1961 / p.129-140 The urban space concepts of Mies van der Rohe / article by Jacques Brownson in Columbia University. School of Architecture. Four Great Makers of Modern Architecture, 1961 / p.141-145 Mies, the educator / Daniel Brenner in Columbia University. School of Architecture. Four Great Makers of Modern Architecture, 1961 / p.113-117

A personal testament / article by Philip Johnson (on Mies van der Rohe) in Columbia University. School of Architecture. Four Great Makers of Modern Architecture, 1961 / p.109-112 Mies van der Rohe at Illinois Institute of Technology / article by Henry T Heald in Columbia University. School of Architecture. Four Great Makers of Modern Architecture, 1961 / p.105-108 A conversation with Mies / article by Gerhardt M Kallman and Peter Blake in Columbia University. School of Architecture. Four Great Makers of Modern Architecture, 1961 / p.93-104 The place of Mies in American architecture / article by William H Jordy in Zodiac, 8 1961 / p.28-33 1960 Lafayette Park, Detroit; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Architectural Design, 30 September 1960 / p.353-354 Redevelopment project by Mies van der Rohe (Lafayette Park, Detroit, Mich.) in Arts & Architecture, 77 July 1960 / p.15-17 Presentation of the Gold Medal of Honor to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, FAIA in American Institute of Architects Journal, 33 June 1960 / p.90-91 Redevelopment program for Newark (Colonnade Park, Newark, N.J.; Architect: Mies van der Rohe) in Architectural Record, 127 April 1960 / p.174-177 A medal for L. Mies van der Rohe in Architectural Forum, 112 April 1960 / p.132-137 [Houston Museum of Fine Arts], new wing; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Architectural Forum, 112 January 1960 / p.128-129 The Seagram Building; Architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson in Arts & Architecture, 77 January 1960 / p.14-15

1959 Cullinan Hall of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas in Architectural Design, 29 September 1959 / p.354-358 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / article by H T Cadbury-Brown (address at an ordinary general meeting of the Architectural Association, May 27, 1959, Mies answered questions) in Architectural Association Journal, 75 July-August 1959 / p.26-46 Presentation of the Royal Gold Medal for 1959 to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / article by Basil Spence in Royal Institute of British Architects Journal, 66 July 1959 / p.304-308 Seagram house re-assessed / article by Thomas H Creighton in Progressive Architecture, 40 June 1959 / p.140-145 Seagram Building, New York; Architects: Mies van der Rohe and Philp Johnson in Architectural Design, 29 February 1959 / p.72-77 Un monumento a New York: il Seagram Building; Architects: Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson in Casabella Continuita (223) January 1959 / p.3-11 (text in Italian) Seagrams New York in Bauen und Wohnen (1) January 1959 / p.1-18 (text in German+English) The lessons of the master / article by Lewis Mumford in American Institute of Architects Journal, 31 p.19-23 January 1959 /

1958 Seagram assessed / article by William H Jordy in Architectural Review, 124 December 1958 / p.374-382 Loeuvre de Mies van der Rohe in Architecture dAujourdhui, 29 (79) September 1958 / whole issue (text in French)

Seagrams bronze tower in Architectural Forum, 1009 July 1958 / p.66-77 The Seagram building: Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson architects / article by Arthur Drexler in Architectural Record, 123 July 1958 / p.139-147 Miess one-office office builidng in Architectural Forum, 110 February 1958 / p.94-97 1957 The Miesian superblock: famed architect Mies van der Rohe and his team provide a classic prototype for urban renewal in Architectural Forum, 106 March 1957 / p.128-133 1956 [Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology] in Architectural Record, 120 August 1956 / p.134-139 [Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology] in Architectural Forum, 105 August 1956 / p.104-111 Mies van der Rohe, Chicago School, 1938-1956 / article by Werner Blaser in Bauen und Wohnen, 10 (7) July 1956 / p.217-229 1955 Student commons [Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.] in Progressive Architecture, 36 July 1955 / p.104-106 Mies van der Rohe in Arts & Architecture, 72 April 1955 / p.16-18 1954 Building for the College of Architecture, Planning and Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago in Arts & Architecture, 71 August 1954 / p.16-19

Lexposition Mies van der Rohe / article by Pierre Arrou in Construction Moderne, 70 May 1954 / p.118-119 860 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, USA in Architect and Building News, 205 April 8, 1954 / p.400-409

1953 A proposed National Theater for the City of Mannheim; Architect: Mies van der Rohe in Arts & Architecture, 70 October 1953 / p.17-19 Mies van der Rohes theater for Mannheim in Architectural Forum, 99 July 1953 / p.128-131 The end of the Bauhaus / article by Mies van der Rohe in North Carolina State University. School of Design. [Student Publication Magazine] 3, (3) Spring, 1953 / p.16-18 [Mies van der Rohe] in Arts & Architecture, 69 March 1952 / p.16-31 A chapel: Robert F Carr Memorial Chapel of St Saviour, Illinois, Institute of Technology; Architect: Mies van der Rohe in Arts & Architecture, 70 January 1953 / p.18-19 1952 [Mies van der Rohes new buildings] (860 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago; Illinois Institute of Technology; Row house plan for Robert H McCormick, Jr.) in Architectural Forum, 97 November 1952 / p.93-111 The evolution of Wright, Mies and Le Corbusier / article by Henry-Russell Hitchcock in Perspecta, (1) Summer 1952 / p.8-15 Mies van der Rohe (Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago; Weekend House for Dr Edith Farnsworth, Plano, Illinois; Promontory Apartments, Chicago; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago) in Arts & Architecture, 69 March 1952 / p.16-31

1951 Endless architecture a lecture delivered at the AA on June 12th / article by Richard Llewelyn Davies in Architectural Association Journal, 67 November 1951 / p.106-112 The first house built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe since he came to America in 1938 (Farnsworth House near Chicago) in Architectural Forum, 95 October 1951 / p.156-161 1950 Architecture and technology (Architect: Mies van der Rohe) in Arts & Architecture, 67 October 1950 / p.30 Mies van der Rohe e Frank Lloyd Wright poete dello spazio / article by Bruno Zevi in Metron (37) July-August 1950 / p.6-18 Museum to show model of first all glass and steel apartment house; Architect: Mies van der Rohe in Museum of Modern Art [New York] Press Releases, 13 1950 1947 Mies van der Rohe designed and arranged this exhibition of his own work in the second floor gallery in the Museum of Modern Art in Arts & Architecture, 4 December 1947 / p.24-27 Mies van der Rohe (review of his work as depicted in photos from the Museum of Modern Art, NY) in Architectural Record, 102 September 1947 / p.81-88 Mies van der Rohe: his first large US exhibition shows how he helped create the modern style from chairs to skyscrapers / article by A James Speyer in ArtNews, 46 September 1947 / p.20-23 Linstitut de technologie de lIllinois in Architecture dAujourdhui, 18 French) June 1947 / p.36-39 (text in

1946 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (review of book by Philip Johnson) in Architectural Forum vol.87 November 1946 / p.132, 136, 140 illinois tech replans 16 city blocks; Architect: Mies van der Rohe in Architectural Forum, 85 September 1946 / p.102-103 Drawings for the Library and Administrative Building, Illinois Institute in Architects Journal, 103 January 3, 1946 / p.11-15 Metals and Minerals Research Building: Illinois Institute of Technology; Architect: Mies van der Rohe in Architects Journal, 103 January 3, 1946 / p.7-10 1944 Basic teaching of architecture / article by Howard Dearstyne (Architect: Mies van der Rohe) in Liturgical Arts, 12 May 1944 / p.56-60 1938 Becomes head of Architecture at Armour Institute of Technology in Weekly News Letter of the Art Institute of Chicago 1938 / p.151, 153 1932 Looking into glass / article by Raymond McGrath (includes commentary on the use of glass by Mies van der Rohe) in Architectural Review, 71 January 1932 / p.28-34 1931 Exposition internationale du batiment, a Berlin, 1931 (Mies van der Rohe) in Architecture Vivante Autumn-Winter 1931 / p.27, pl.31-33 (text in French) La maison Tugendhat, a Brno, 1931 = The Tugendhat home at Brno; Architect: Mies van der Rohe in Architecture Vivante Autumn-Winter 1931 / p.28, pl.34-38 (text in French)

Die Halle II auf der Bauaustellung / article by Wilhelm Lotz (one-story houses by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich) in Form: Zeitschrift fur gestaltende Arbeit, 6 (7) July 15, 1931 / p.241-249 (text in German) [Small home designed by Mies van der Rohe for the Berlin Exposition of 1931] in Wasmuths Monatshefte fur Baukunst, 15 June 1931 / p.244-245 1930 Model for glass and steel apartment house; Architect: Mies van der Rohe in Architectural Record October 1930 / p.327-358 1928 Mies van der Rohe / article by Christian Zervos (elevation and plan of a brick country house and other house) in Cahiers dArt, 3 (1) 1928 / p.35-38 pl. facing p.35 (text in French) 1927 Exposition du Werkbund a Stuttgart, LHabitation (illustration of work by Mies van der Rohe and others) in Cahiers dArt, 2 (7-8) 1927 / p.287-292 (text in French)

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Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian March 2009