Main entry:

Blaser, Werner, 1924-2019.

Title & Author:

Mies van der Rohe : Lake Shore Drive apartments : high-rise building = wohnhochnaus / Werner Blaser ; [translation into English: Katja Steiner, Bruce Almberg, Ehingen].

Publication:

Basel ; Boston, Mass. : Birkhäuser, ©1999.

Description:

89 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

Solitary buildings

Notes:
Photo 1951 -- Development of the Essential: Open Space -- 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago, 1948-1951 -- Vision in Omission -- 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments -- Archetype of Modern Architecture by Masami Takayama -- Chicago Time-Skyline: by Masami Takayama (Process Architecture 1992) -- Photo 1964 -- AIA Gold Medal -- About the Situation -- The Structure -- Photos 1951-53 -- Photo 1963/64 (860-880/900-910) -- Photos 1983 (John Hancock Center) -- The Outer Skin -- The Floors -- Photos 1951-53 -- Photos 1963 -- The Interior -- The Apartments -- Photos 1952 -- Photos 1964 (26th floor) -- From Material to Transparency -- Homage to Mies -- Mies van der Rohe's Life and Work -- Mies Personally-About the Person -- Thanks to Friends.
Text in German and English.

Summary:

"The texts were written by a single person (complemented by a report from an inhabitant); the photographs, reproduced in duotone, all come from the same lens using an approach repeated again and again. Both attempt to show the objective state of affairs of Mies van der Rohe's solitary buildings with carefully collected and organized materials. An inner confrontation over decades opened up access to Mies' oeuvre for Werner Blaser, and thus, to this publication." "The legacy of Mies van der Rohe's most fruitful intentions is thus visually assessed with in part unpublished picture material. Those with a more critical attitude will also be creatively confronted with the roots of good architecture through the intensity of the presentation, which will hopefully provide new stimulus."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0817660909 (Boston)
9780817660901 (Boston)
3764360909 (Basel ...)
9783764360900 (Basel ...)

Subject:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 1886-1969
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, (1886-1969) Critique et interprétation.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.
High-rise apartment buildings Illinois Chicago.
Architecture Illinois Chicago History.
Immeubles d'habitation en hauteur Illinois Chicago.
Architecture Illinois Chicago 20e siècle.
Architecture Illinois Chicago Histoire.
Architecture
High-rise apartment buildings
Hochhaus
Bildband
Wohnung
Wohnungsbau
Woningen.
Hoogbouw.
Architecture Illinois Chicago History 20th century.
Architects Germany 20th century.
Architects United States 20th century.
Architectture Etats-Unis Chicago (Ill.)
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Apartment houses United States Illinois Chicago 1940-2000.
High-rise buildings United States Illinois Chicago 1940-2000.
American Architects.
Swiss Architects.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Solitary buildings.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 209643
Call No.: NA44.M632.25 A15 1999
Status: Available