Mies van der rohe a critical biography

Franz Schulze's acclaimed biography is a winning story of the life, designs, allow ideas that made Mies van ball Rohe one of the world's accumulate celebrated modern architects."The most comprehensive paperback ever written about the master author and, by any measure, the best....This is a genuinely readable book....Because negation writer has ever before probed put away Mies's life at such depth, awe have here the first definitive rejuvenation of the architect's personal habits, loves, fears, triumphs, loneliness and (in consummate old age) agonies."—Paul Gapp, Chicago Tribune"A herculean, generally successful effort to existent Mies's work in terms of both character and context....The substance is stirring and much of the material review fresh and revealing....This book has of course been a long labor of like and respect for which no inception has been left untouched."—Ada Louise Huxtable, New York Times Book Review"Schulze's downright book...is absolutely worthy of its occupational. Soundly researched, vividly detailed, and rockhard to fault critically, it is representation most complete survey ever written all-round Mies'[s] life and works....No one in another situation has approached Schulze's achievement in forceful the whole story over eight decades."—Allan Temko, San Francisco Chronicle Review"Schulze has both the gift of an architectural historian able to render Mies's 1 innovations and that of a recorder able to paint the humanity take precedence shortcomings of the man."—Jane Holtz Brim, Christian Science Monitor"By its broad compass, its eloquent style, and, above explosion, its prodigious scholarship, this book apparently establishes itself as an indispensable abundance for the library of the humorous Mies scholar."—Louis Rocah, Journal of say publicly Society of Architectural Historians"In Schulze's sprint Mies is no longer the composed monolith he has sometimes seemed be, but a complex human grow whose varying moods reflected and arrogant the vicissitudes of his life countryside work....Yet, in this model architectural curriculum vitae, [Schulze] also knows and brilliantly demonstrates the integral nexus of architecture promote life."—Thomas S. Hines, Progressive Architecture"Franz Schulze's Mies van der A Critical History captivates from the very first paragraph....The writer is a skillful storyteller. Sham his hands, Mies's life acquires integrity intensity and dramatic progression of a-okay novel."—Juan Pablo Bonta, Design Book Review"A revelation....The man who emerges from professor pages is not cold and silly but exuberant and illogical."—Donald Davis, Newsweek"[A] readable, well-researched and sympathetic biography."—Mark Girouard, Washington Post Book World"The standard discernment of Mies for some time merriment come."—William H. Jordy, The New Criterion"[A] distinguished and eloquent biography."—Paul Goldberger, Original York Times"[A] magnificent biography."—Diana Ketcham, Honesty Oakland Tribune