'Mies'

Now back in print, Detlef Mertins' 'Mies' endures as the most definitive monograph ever published on the iconic architect Mies van der Rohe. Offering 554 pages and 750 illustrations, the Phaidon-published hardback presents a thorough and comprehensive exploration of the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose remarkable houses, skyscrapers, museums, and multibuilding campuses cemented the German-American's position as one of the leading pioneers of modernist architecture. With beauty and purity defining each of van der Rohe's projects, the architect's designs are dissected via clear and accessible texts by Mertins, which also scrutinise van der Rohe's other interests — such as philosophy and science — amongst other intellectual contexts for each design.