Mies Reconsidered: His Career, Legacy, and Disciples

Chicago, IL: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1986. Softcover. VG- (Light scuffs to cover, light edgewear to head of spine and edges, slight tanning to page edges, otherwise quite nice.). Green illustrated wraps with orange and white lettering, 172 pp., many BW illustrations. Issued in conjunction with a 1986 exhibition focused on the work of German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). Essays: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: A Biographical Essay / David Spaeth -- Modernism and Tradition in the Work of Mies van der Rohe, 1920-1968 / Kenneth Frampton -- Mies and the Highrise: Recent Correspondence on History, Ideology, and Succession / Christian F. Otto -- Excellence: The Culture of Mies as Seen in his Notes and Books / Francesco Dal Co -- miMISes READING: does not mean A THING / Peter Eisenman -- Mies van der Rohe and his Disciples, or The American Architectural Text and its Reading / Stanley Tigerman. Includes an appendix of biographical sketches of his "Disciples of Modernism."