First edition. Hardcover , fine green cloth covered boards with title stamped in silver on spine in a photographically illustrated dust jacket ( photogr. : Thomas Ruff ).
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition ( June 21 – September 11 2001 ) at the MoMA, New York ( and later in Berlin & Barcelona ). 392 p. 595 illustrations 105 in color & 490 in black & white. Contains a portfolio of photographs by Thomas Ruff, 12 pages of notes , a bibliography and an index.
When Ludwig Mies van der Rohe left Germany for the United States he was fifty-two years old. He had practiced as an architect in Germany for over three decades…