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Mies van der Rohe latest published books

Shopmies.com, the Mies van der Rohe Foundation library, offers an extensive and careful selection of books about Mies van der Rohe that incorporates the latest news published worldwide:

  • Architectual Portraits. The Mies Project: The Berlin-based photo artist Arina Dähnick follows in the footsteps of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe most worlwide iconic buildings in her study of city life and urbanity, displaying the contrasts of inside and outside, of blurriness and focus, reflections and mirror images, and playing with the viewer’s perception.
  • Almost Nothing: The book collects work by one hundred various artists that comment on or appropriate buildings, designs, and statements by or images of the legendary architect, with a commentary by architect and writer Christian Bjone offering rich background information on the individual artists and the depicted art works.
  • MIES. Graphic Novel [German]: An illustrated comic book charting the life and work of the renowned architect, supporting new languages for the dissemination of knowledge of architecture that will be of interest to both professionals and those who want to learn about modern architecture through a rich, visual medium.
  • Andrés Jaque. Mies and the Cat Niebla [Spanish]: first publication including the essays by Andrés Jaque and the platform he founded in 2003, Office for Political Innovation, from which he operates.
  • Mies van der Roher and Japan: Although he never visited Japan, there are numerous links to pre-modern Japanese houses and Mies’ projects. By examining cultural exchanges between East and West, this book offers a new understanding of the periods of his work.
  • The Mies’s Monument to the November Revolution: Completed in 1926 and subsequently destroyed by the far right in 1933, this book tells the painful story of the monument erected by Mies van der Rohe for two Marxist revolutionaries murdered by right-wing reactionary militias following the Spartacist Uprising.

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