7. The Reemergence of Representation out of Abstraction in Mies van der Rohe

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7. The Reemergence of Representation out of Abstraction in Mies van der Rohe

Neil Levine

Modern Architecture: Representation & Reality

Three years after Fallingwater was completed and two years after it was the subject of a one-building exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (1938), the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), who...

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Neil Levine

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.214-242

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00084.010

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Chapter subject tags:Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969Architecture, modern--20th centuryDecoration and ornament, Architectural--20th centuryWright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959Midcentury modern (Architecture)

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List of illustrations

Housing Block. Hook of Holland. Exterior detail by Oud, Jacobus Johannes Pieter
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1924–1927
Grain Silo by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
Unknown
Steel-frame construction of Chicago's Palmer House by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1927
Rhythm of a Russian Dance by Doesburg, Theo van
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1918
Everything Is Spheres and Cylanders by Le Corbusier
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1920
Brick Country House project (possibly) Potsdam-Neubabelsberg. Perspective and plan by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1924
Urbig House. Exterior by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1915–1917
Mosier House by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1924–1926
Diagram Illustrating the Development of a Rectangular Building-Site with Parallel Rows of Tenement Blocks of Different Heights by Gropius, Walter
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1935
Diagram Illustrating the Development of a Rectangular Building-Site with Parallel Rows of Tenement Blocks of Different Heights by Gropius, Walter
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1935
German (Barcelona) Pavilion, International Exhibition, exterior by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1928–1929
Barcelona Pavilion. Plan by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
Unknown
Barcelona Pavilion, detail of column base by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
Unknown
German Pavilion project, International Exhibition, Brussels. Exterior Perspective by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1934
German Pavilion project, International Exhibition, Brussels. Court of Honor. Interior perspective by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1934
House with Three Courts project by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
c. 1934–1935
Snake River Ranch (Resor House) by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
c. 1937
Resor House, 1935–37, under construction by Goodwin, Philip Lippincott;Peter, Marc
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
c. 1937
Resor House project, 1937–39. Elevations. Contract drawing by Rodgers, John B.
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1938
Resor House project. Plan, second (main) floor. Contract drawing by Rodgers, John B.
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1938
Resor House project, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, interior perspective of living room and south glass wall by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1939
Resor House project. Interior perspective (collage), looking north by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
c. 1939
Resor House project. Preliminary interior perspective (collage), looking north by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
c. 1939
Hubbe House (project), Magdeburg, perspective of court seen from living room terrace by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on May 03
1935
Alexderplatz project, Berlin. Aerial view (photomontage) by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1928
Concert Hall project. Interior perspective (collage) by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
c. 1941–1942
Martin Assembly Building, Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Plant, Middle River, Md., 1937. Interior by Kahn, Albert
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
c. 1938
Martin Assembly Building. Exterior, with Martin Mars airplane by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
c. 1941–1942
Concert Hall project. Preliminary interior perspective (collage) by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
Unknown
Town Center, "New Buildings for 194X." Plan by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1943
Museum for a Small City project., "New Buildings for 194X." Elevation by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1943
Museum for a Small City Project. Interior perspective by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
c. 1943
Spanish Pavilion. International Exhibition, Paris. Interior, with Picasso's Guernica by Sert, Josep Lluís
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1937
Make More Tanks by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1941
Navy Building (later Alumni Memorial Hall), Illinois Insittute of Technology, exterior by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1945–1946
Navy Building. Exterior. Corner detail by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1945–1946
Navy Building. Partial plan by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
Unknown
860–880 North Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings, Chicago. Partial plan by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1948–1951
860–880 North Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings, Chicago. Under construction by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1948–1951
Barcelona Pavilioan. Plan of column by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
Unknown
Farnsworth House. Exterior by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
By John Carlson
on Oct 06
1945–1951
Light Bulb by Johns, Jasper
By John Carlson
on Jul 31
1960–1962
Red Explosion (Atomic Bombs) by Warhol, Andy
By John Carlson
on Feb 25
1963