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Mies van der Rohe's architecture has been well documented, yet his writings that contain the key to his thought and to understanding his work have been largely unexplored. From Mies' library - including his marginal notes - and from a body of writing that is surprisingly large for the self-described unwilling author, Fritz Neumeyer reconstructs the metaphysical and philosophical inquiry on which Mies based his modernism.
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The attempts of historians and critics during the past 50 years to capture the essence of the architecture of Mies van der Rohe have lead to an unfortunate distillation of his thought. In this extraordinary study Fritz Neumeyer reveals the true richness and depth of the ideas and influences in Mies's development; not only St. Augustine, Behrens and Schinkel, but Alois Riehl, Nietzsche, Hegel, H.-P. Berlage, Romano Guardini, Rudolph Schwarz, Siegfried Ebeling, and others. Mies is seen as a philosopher-architect and his buildings are interpreted (with fresh and often pointed pictorial juxtapositions) as expressions of carefully wrought ideas. This is an essential study of a modern master. All of Mies's writings are collected in appendixes. Highly recommended for advanced undergraduates and above.-J. Quinan, SUNY at Buffalo
