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Mies van der Rohe: A Selective Bibliography 

Compiled by Aileen Smith, March 2009 

This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to 

Mies van der Rohe. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a 

shelfmark. 

Books (Alphabetically by title) 

Anatomy of architectural interpretations: a semiotic review of Mies van der 

Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion / Juan Pablo Bonta Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1975 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92M BON 

Artless word: Mies van der Rohe on the building art / Fritz Neumeyer 

London: MIT Press, 1991 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:92MIE NEU 

Barcelona-Pavillon: Mies van der Rohe: architecture and sculpture / Ursel Berger 

and Thomas Pavel Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2007 ISBN 9783939633068 

AA SHELFMARK: 725.91.036(46B):92MIE BER 

Bauhaus and America: first contacts 1919-1936 / Margret Kentgens-Craig 

(Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999 

ISBN 026211237X 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73) KEN 

Building a new Europe: portraits of modern architects / essays by George Nelson, 

1935-36; introduction by Kurt W Forster; foreword by Robert A M Stern 

(includes George Nelson talking with Mies van der Rohe) 

New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007 ISBN 9780300115659 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(4) NEL 

Building desire: on the Barcelona Pavilion / George Dodds London: Routledge, 

2005 ISBN 0415325242 

AA SHELFMARK: 725.91.036(46B):92MIE DOD 

Changing the art of inhabitation: Mies’ pieces, Eames’ dreams, the Smithsons’ / 

Alison Smithson London: Artemis, 1994 

AA SHELFMARK: 728.01.036 SMI

Conversations with Mies van der Rohe / edited by Moises Puente New York: 

Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 ISBN 9781568987538 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE PUE 

Design after Mies / Any, 24, edited by Cynthia Davidson / New York: Anyone 

Corporation, 1999 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY (MLC) 

Farnsworth House: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Maritz Vandenberg London: 

Phaidon, 2003 ISBN 0714831522 

AA SHELFMARK: 69.02:72.036(773P):92MIE VAN 

Fear of glass: Mies van der Rohe’s Pavilion in Barcelona / Joseph Quetglas 

Basel: Birkhauser, 2001 ISBN 3764363398 

AA SHELFMARK: 725.91.036(43B):92MIE QUE 

From Schinkel to the Bauhaus: five lectures on the growth of modern German 

architecture / Julius Posener (Architectural Association Paper, 5) 

London: Lund Humphries, 1972 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.035/6(43) POS 

Hilberseimer / Mies van der Rohe: Lafayette Park Detroit / edited by Charles 

Waldheim Munich: Prestel, 2004 ISBN 3791330446 

AA SHELFMARK: 711.582(73):728.1 WAL 

Illustrated catalogue of the Mies van der Rohe drawings in the Museum of 

Modern Art: Mies van der Rohe Archive / edited by Arthur Drexler; with 

introductory notes by Arthur Drexler and Franz Schulze New York; London: 

Garland Publisher, 1986-1992 (AA Library has vols 1-4, 7-9, 12, 15-18, 20) 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):9292MIE DRE (GALL-REF) 

Looking for Mies / Ricardo Daza Barcelona: Actar; Basel: Birkhauser, 2000 

ISBN 3764362383 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(773C):92MIE DAZ 

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Max Bill Milan: Il Balcone, 1955 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE BIL (REF-LO) 

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Arthur Drexler London: Mayflower, 1960 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE DRE 

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: the Tugendhat House / edited by Daniela Hammer- 

Tugendhat, Wolf Tegethoff Wien: Springer, 2000 ISBN 3211830650 

AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(46B):72.036(73):92MIE TUG

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Jean-Louis Cohen Basel: Birkhauser, 2007 

ISBN 9783764379605 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE COH 

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich: furniture and interiors / Christiane 

Lange Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006 ISBN 9783775719216 

AA SHELFMARK: 749.036:92MIE LAN 

Master builders: Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright / Peter 

Blake New York: W. W. Norton, 1976 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036:92 BLA (GALL) 

Mies in America / edited by Phyllis Lambert; essays by Werner Oechslin… [et al] 

New York: H. N. Abrams, 2001 ISBN 0810967286 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE LAM 

Mies in Berlin / Terence Riley, Barry Bergdoll; with essays by Vittorio Magnago 

Lampugnani… [at al] New York: MoMA, 2001 ISBN 0870700189 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43B):92MIE RIL 

Mies reconsidered: his career, legacy and disciples / John Zukowsky 

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1986 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE ZUK 

Mies van der Rohe / Werner Blaser London: Thames and Hudson, 1972 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE BLA (GALL) 

Mies van der Rohe / Jean-Louis Cohen London: Spon, 1996 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE COH 

Mies van der Rohe / Philip Johnson New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1947 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92M JOH (REF-LO) 

Mies van der Rohe / Philip Johnson London: Secker & Warburg, 1970 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE JOH 

Mies van der Rohe / texts by Yehuda Safran; edited by Luiz Trigueiros and Paulo 

Martins Barata Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2001 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE SAF (MLC) 

Mies van der Rohe / Francisco Asensio Cerver Kempen: te Neues, 2002 

ISBN 9783823855811 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE ASE 

Mies van der Rohe / Ludwig Hilberseimer Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1956 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73);92MIE HIL (STORE)

Mies van der Rohe, 1886-1969: the structure of space / Claire Zimmerman 

Koln: Taschen, 2006 ISBN 9783822836439 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE ZIM 

Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno / Vitra 

Design Museum; editors Alexander von Vegesack, Mathias Kries Milan: Skira: 

Vitra Design Museum, 1998 ISBN 8881183951 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE VEG 

Mies van der Rohe: architecture and structure / Peter Blake Harmondsworth: 

Penguin/Pelican, 1960 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92M BLA (STORE) 

Mies van der Rohe: the art of structure / Werner Blaser London: Thames and 

Hudson, 1965 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92M BLA 

Mies van der Rohe at work / Peter Carter London: Pall Mall Press, 1974 

ISBN 0269283048 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92M CAR 

Mies van der Rohe Award for European architecture / introduction by Kenneth 

Frampton London: Butterworth, 1990 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(4) FRA (STORE) 

Mies van der Rohe: Barcelona Pavilion / Ignasi de Sola-Morales, Cristian Cirici, 

Fernando Ramos Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1998 ISBN 8425216079 

AA SHELFMARK: 725.91.036(46B):92MIE SOL 

Mies van der Rohe: critical biography / Franz Schulze Chicago/London: Chicago 

University Press, 1985 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE SCH 

Mies van der Rohe: critical essays / Franz Schulze and others New York: 

Museum of Modern Art, 1989 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:92MIE SCH 

Mies van der Rohe: Crown Hall, ITT, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1952-56; New 

National Gallery, Berlin, West Germany 1968 / text by Ludwig Glaeser 

Tokyo: ADA Edita, 1972 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(773C):92MIE GLO (MLC) 

Mies van der Rohe: European works / Architectural Monographs, 11 

London: Academy Editions, 1986 ISBN 085670685 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE ARC

Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1945-50 / text by Dirk 

Lohan (Global Architecture Detail, 1) Tokyo: ADA Edita, 1976 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(773P):92MIE LOH (MLC) 

Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House: weekend house / Werner Blaser 

Basel: Birkhauser, 1999 ISBN 3764360895 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(773P):92MIE BLA 

Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House / Paul Clemence Atglen, PA: Schiffer 

Publishing, 2007 ISBN 9780764324437 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(773P):92MIE CLE 

Mies van der Rohe: German Pavilion, International Exposition, Barcelona, Spain, 

1928-29 / Global Archtiecture, 75 Tokyo: ADA Edita, 1995 

AA SHELFMARK: 725.91.036(46B):92MIE GLO (MLC) 

Mies van der Rohe: the Krefeld villas / Kent Kleinman and Leslie Van Duzer 

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005 ISBN 1568985037 

AA SHELFMARK: 728.3(43):92MIE KLE 

Mies van der Rohe: Lake Shore Drive apartments: high-rise building / Werner 

Blaser Basel: Birkhauser, 1999 ISBN 3764360909 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE BLA 

Mies van der Rohe: a retrospective exhibition organized by the Art Institute of 

Chicago in collaboration with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the 

Fine Arts / A James Speyer Chicago: Chicago Art Institute, 1968 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73): 92M SPE (GALL) 

Mies van der Rohe; sa carriere, son heritage et ses disciples / Centre Georges 

Pompidou Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1987 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE PAR (STORE) 

Mies van der Rohe: the villas and country houses / Wolf Tegethoff 

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1985 

AA SHELFMARK: 728.84:92MIE TEG 

Presence of Mies / Detlef Mertins New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 

1994 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:92MIE MER 

Reflections: Mies van der Rohe Pavilion / Josep M Rovira I Gimeno Barcelona: 

Triangle Postals, 2002 ISBN 8484780392 

AA SHELFMARK: 725.91(467.11):92MIE ROV

Seagram Building / Photographs by Ezra Stoller; introduction by Franz Schulze 

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999 ISBN 1568982011 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(747N):92MIE STO 

Strange details (Writing Architecture Series) / Michael Cadwell (includes Mies 

van der Rohe) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007 ISBN 9780262532914 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 CAD 

Taming Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House (1945-1951): the art of collecting 

architecture / Irene Sunwoo London: Architectural Association, 2004 

AA (MA) Histories and Theories of Architecture Thesis, 2004 

AA SHELFMARK: 043:72.036(773P):92MIE SUN 

Teaching at the Bauhaus: the standard work on the groundbreaking pedagogical 

concepts of the Bauhaus / Rainer K Wick Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000 

ISBN 3776708014 

AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) WIC 

Ten canonical buildings 1950-2000 / Peter Eisenman; foreword by Stan Allen; 

edited by Ariane Lourie New York: Rizzoli, 2008 ISBN 9780847830480 

(includes Mies van der Rohe) 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 EIS 

Towards universality: Le Corbusier, Mies and De Stijl / Richard Padovan 

London: Routledge, 2002 ISBN 0419240306 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 PAD 

Translations from drawing to building and other essays / Robin Evans 

London: AA Publications, 1997 ISBN 187089068X (includes essay ‘ Mies van 

der Rohe’s paradoxical symmetries) 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.01 EVA 

Villa of the Tugendhats created by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Brno / Dusan 

Riedl Brno: The Heritage Institute, Brno, in cooperation with the Brno City 

Museum, 1997 

AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(437B):92MIE RIE (GALL) 

Visionary architecture: blueprints of the modern imagination / Neil Spiller 

London: Thames and Hudson, 2006 ISBN 9780500342268 

(includes projects by Mies van der Rohe) 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 SPI 

West meets East – Mies van der Rohe / Werner Blaser Basel: Birkhauser, 1996 

AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE BLA

Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month) 

2007 

‘How Henri Lefebvre missed the modernist sensibility of Mies van der Rohe: 

vitalism at the intersection of a materialist conception of space and a 

metaphysical approach to architecture’ / article by Victoria Watson 

in The Journal of Architecture, 12 (1) February 2007 / p.99-111 

2006 

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: l’architettura non e un martini cocktail = Ludwig 

Mies van der Rohe: architecture is not a martini cocktail [interview]’ / article by 

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Peter Carter 

In Casabella, 70 ( 741) February 2006 / p.3-5 (text in 

Italian+English) 

‘Taming the Farnsworth House’ / article by Irene Sunwoo 

in Thresholds (31) 2006 / p.66-75 

2005 

‘Mies’s event space [New National Gallery, Berlin]’ / article by Detlef Mertins 

in Grey Room (20) Summer 2005 / p.60-73 

‘”Stimmung” at Seagram: Philip Johnson counters Mies van der Rohe’ / article by 

Phyllis Lambert 


2004 

‘The unbearable lightness of building: a cautionary tale’ / article by Derek Sayer 

(on the “true history” of the Barcelona Pavilion, Mies’s work in Czechoslovakia 

etc) 


‘Farnsworth: the lightness of being’ / article by Paul Goldberger 

in Preservation, 56 (4) July/August 2004 / p.36-39 

‘Mies a Montreal = Mies in Montreal’ / article by Mario Carpo and Roberto Zancan 

in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (350) January-February 2004 / 

p.104-109

‘Farnsworth House saved’ / article by Sam Lubell (preservation groups have 

purchased the Farnsworth House at auction) 

in Architectural Record, 192 (1) January 2004 / p.157 

2003 

‘Masters of light: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois’ / 

article by Henry Plummer 

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism Extra Edition November 2003 / 

p.262-267 (text in Japanese+English) 

‘Mies van der Rohe house discovered, mystery remains’ / article by Dietrich 

Neumann (Villa Heusgen, Krefeld) 

in Architectural Record, 191 (110 November 2003 / p.34 

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Riehl House, Potsdam, Germany, 1906-1907’ 

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (388) January 2003 / p.17-24 

(text in Japanese+English) 

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Perls House, Berlin, Germany, 1911-1912 



‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Esters House, Krefeld, Germany, 1927-1930’ 



‘Mies van der Rohe: Hermann Lange House, Krefeld, Germany’ 



‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain, 1929’ 



‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Tugendhat House, Brno, Czech Republic, 1928’/ 

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (388) January 2003 / 

p.112-121 (text in Japanese+English) 

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Lemke House, Berlin, Germany, 1932-1933’ 

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (388) January 2003 / p.122- 

125

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, Illinois, USA, 1946-1951’ 



‘Mies and Japan’ / article by Hajime Yatsuka 

in Cornell Journal of Architecture (7) 2003 / p.52-62 

‘The modern eye-catcher: Mies van der Rohe and sculpture’ / article by Penelope 

Curtis 

in ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly, 7 (3-4) 2003 / 

p.361-370 

‘Maleno & manje: u prilog asemblazu = Small & less: in favor of assemblage’ / 

article by Nikola Polak 

in Oris, 5 (19) 2003 / p.4-15 (text in Serbo-Croatian+English) 

2002 

‘Absolut MiesTM, Absolut modern: building good copy’ / article by Brett Steele 

in AA Files no.48 Winter 2002 / p.2-14 

‘Mies van der Rohe: a drawing and a letter to a client’ / article by Victoria Watson 

in Journal of Architecture, 7 (4) Winter 2002 / p.355-360 

‘Absolut Mies, absolute modern’ / article by Brett Steele 

in Arch Plus (161) June 2002 / p.46-57 (text in German) 

‘Tugendhat Frames’ / article by Claire Zimmerman (Mies van der Rohe’s Villa 

Tugendhat, Brno. Czech Republic, 1930) 

in Arch Plus (161) June 2002 / p.22-31 (text in German) 

‘Mies van der Rohe today’ (considers the contemporaneity of Mies van der 

Rohe) 

in Kenchiku Bunka, 57 (658) April 2002 / p.73-84 (text in 

Japanese) 

2001 

‘Tugendhat frames’ / article by Claire Zemmerman 

in Harvard Design Magazine (15) Fall 2001 / p.24-31

‘Mies ‘ad usum Delphini’: 60 anos en 60 obras = 60 years in 60 works’ / article 

by Luis Fernandez-Galiano 

in AV Monografias = AV Monographs (92) November-December 

2001 / p.4-73 (text in Spanish+English) 

‘Hacer historia: Mies y el MoMA = Making history: Mies and the MoMA’ 

in AV Monografias = AV Monographs (92) November-December 

2001 / p.96-115 (text in Spanish+English) 

‘Mies van der Rohe: House Lange - House Esters, Krefeld, Germany, 1928’ / 

article by Kent Kleinman and Leslie Van Duzer 

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (373) October 2001 / p.22-27 


‘Mies van der Rohe: the unabridged version [exhibition review]’ / article by Franz 

Schulze 

in Art in America, 89 (10) October 2001 / p.118-127 

‘Alien 5044325: Mies’s first trip to America’ / article by Cammie D McAtee 

(the story of Mies van der Rohe’s arrival in the US in the 1930s, and the 

overtures he received from Philip Johnson at MoMA and Joseph Hudnut at 

Harvard) 

in Harvard Design Magazine (14) Summer 2001 / p.69-75 

‘Reassessing Mies’ / article by Jayne Merkel (symposium on Mies at Pratt 

Institute) 

in Oculus, 63 (9) May-June 2001 / p.10-11 

‘2 x Mies: a pair of shows at MoMA and the Whitney reveals overlooked aspects 

of his legacy [exhibition review of Mies in Berlin at MoMA; and Mies in America at 

the Whitney]’ 

in Architectural Record, 189 (5) May 2001 / p.81-82 

‘Mies van der Rohe: le case Lange e Esters a Krefeld, dalla costruzion al restauro 

= Mies van der Rohe: the Lange and Esters Houses in Krefeld, from construction 

to restoration’ / article by Wolf Tegethoff 

in Casabella, 65 (689) May 2001 / p.22-29 (text in Italian+English) 

‘Cullinan Hall: a window on modern Houston’ / article by Stephen Fox 

in Journal of Architectural Education, 54 (3) February 2001 / 

p.158-166

2000/2001 

‘Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Casabella, 64 (684-685) December 2000/January 2001 / p.38- 

49 (text in Italian, with English captions) 

2000 

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, USA, 1950’ / 

article by Ken Tadashi Oshima 

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (10) October 2000 / p.12-31, 

272 (text in Japanese+English) 

‘Gin palace’ / article by Nicola Turner (redesign of the Brasserie restaurant in the 

Seagram Building in New York. Original Architects: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 

and Philip Johnson; renovation architects: Diller + Scofidio) 

in World Architecture (88) July-August 2000 / p.86-91 

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Tugendhat House: a model home of its time?’ / 

article by Wolf Tegethoff 

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (3) March 2000 / p.146-159, 

160-167 (text in Japanese+English) 

‘In perspective: conceptual vs. actual structure’ / article by Robin Evans 

(excerpt from “Mies van der Rohe’s paradoxical symmetries”) 

in Perspecta (31) 2000 / p.46-49 

‘Toward a technological architecture?: case study of the Illinois Institute of 

Technology Commons Building’ / article by Edward R Ford and Thomas Beeby 

in Perspecta (31) 2000 / p.10-21 

1999 

‘Les symetries paradoxales de Mies van der Rohe’ / article by Robin Evans 

in Le Visiteur (4) Summer 1999 / p.48-77 

‘Abstract architecture and the desire to make something that is new’ / article by 

Victoria Watson (use of the grid by Mondrian in art, by L Hilbersmeimer in city 

planning and Mies in Farnsworth House) 

in Journal of Architecture, 4 (1) Spring 1999 / p.81-87

‘The absence of architecture: Mies und die Moderne’ / article by Hannes 

Bohringer 

in Arch Plus (146) April 1999 / p.56-58 (text in German) 

‘Mies, myself and me: notes on the architecture of Mies van der Rohe’ / article by 

Diane Lewis 

in Daidalos (71) 1999 / p.28-37 

‘This is only a test [ITT Campus, Chicago’ / article by Ed Mitchell (an analysis of 

the influence of Mies van der Rohe’s campus on postwar architects) 

in Any no.24 1999 / p.28-35 

1998 

‘”The significance of facts”: Mies’s collages up close and personal’ / article by Neil 

Levine (on Mies’s three projects from the years 1938 to 1942 that are best 

known through collages: the Resor House (1937-1939), the Museum for a Small 

City (1941-1942) and the Concert Hall for the Museum (1941-1942) 

in Assemblage (37) December 1998 / p.70-101 

‘Le pavillon de Barcelone revisite: Mies van der Rohe, 1929’ 

in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui no.318 September 1998 / p.[68-73] 

(text in French, with English summary) 

‘Mies van der Rohe, vol.2’ 

in Kenchiku Bunka, 53 (616) February 1998 / p.21-205 (text in 

Japanese, with English summary) 

‘Mies van der Rohe: the built work, vol.1’ 

in Kenchiku Bunka, 53 (615) January 1998 / p.21-198 (text in 

Japanese, with English summary) 

1995 

‘Mies van der Rohe: German Pavilion, International Exposition, Barcelona; and 

Tugendhat House, Brno, Czechoslovakia’ / article by Fritz Neumeyer 

in GA: Global Architecture no.75 1995 / p.1-47 (text in 

Japanese+English)

1994 

‘Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue, 52 nd to 53 rd Streets: Ludwig Mies van der 

Rohe and Philip Johnson, 1958’ 

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism Extra Edition December 1994 / 

p.258-[267] (text in Japanese+English) 

‘Beatriz Colomina: Mies Not’ / article by Beatriz Colomina (thoughts on the 

author’s feelings about Mies van der Rohe) 

in Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning 

and Preservation. Newsline, 6 (3) January-February 1994 / p.2 

1993 

‘Mies: teaching methods of Mies and Hilberseimer’ / article by David A Spaeth 

in Inland Architect, 37 (4) July-August 1993 / p.49-52 

‘The horizontal symmetry of Mies van der Rohe’ / article by Randall Ott 

in Dimensions, 7 Spring 1993 / p.112-131 

1992 

‘Il padiglione di Barcellona e l’arte di dimenticare [The Barcelona Pavilion and the 

art of forgetting]; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 

in Casabella vol.56 no.592 July/August 1992 / p.46-51 (text in 

Italian) 

‘Three early designs by Mies van der Rohe’ / article by Dietrich Neumann 

(three unexecuted projects: the curvilinear skyscraper for Friedrichstrasse 

competition (1922); the concrete office building for the Grosse Berliner 

Kunstausstellung (1923); and the concrete country house for that Great Berlin 

exhibition) 

in Perspecta (27) 1992 / p.76-97 

1990 

‘The Barcelona Pavilion as landscape garden: modernity and the picturesque’ / 

article by Caroline Constant 

in AA Files no.20 Autumn 1990 / p.47-54

‘Mies van der Rohe: Vintage photographs and drawings [exhibition review]’ / 

article by Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange and Phyllis Lambert 

in Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning 

and Preservation. Newsline, 2 (8) May 1990 / p.8 

‘Mies van der Rohe’s paradoxical symmetries’ / article by Robin Evans 

in AA Files no.19 Spring 1990 / p.56-68 

1989 

‘Mies van der Rohe: the genealogy of column and wall’ / article by Gevork 

Hartoonian 

in Journal of Architectural Education, 42 (2) Winter 1989 / p.43-50 

1987 

‘Mies van der Rohe’s New National Gallery and the problem of context’ / article 

by Mark Jarzombek 

in Assemblage no.2 February 1987 / p.[32]-43 

1986 

‘Villa Tugendhat, Brno (1928-1930)’ / article by Jan Sapak 

in Domus no.678 December 1986 / p.[25]-37 (text in 

Italian+English) 

‘Farnsworth-Haus in Plano, Illinois von Mies van der Rohe 1945-50’ / article by 

Werner Blaser 

in Detail, 26 November-December 1986 / p.526-529 (text in 

German) 

‘Barcelona: reconstruction of the Barcelona Pavilion’ / article by Warren A James 

in Progressive Architecture, 67 August 1986 / p.61-67 

‘Mies at MoMA: a visionary in context [exhibition review]’ / article by Joseph 

Giovannini 

in ArtNews, 85 May 1986 / p.100-106 

‘A posthumous Mies: two views’ / article by Martin Filler and Joseph Rykwert 

in Art in America, 74 April 1986 / p.152-157

‘Reflections on onyx’ / article by Joseph Masheck (on Mies) 

in Art in America, 74 April 1986 / p.138-151 

‘Farnsworth impressions’ / article by Peter Palumbo 

in Inland Architect, 30 March-April 1986 / p.42-47 

‘Reflections on the Mies centennial’ / article by James Gowan 

in Architectural Design, 56 1986 / p.6-11 

‘Mies van der Rohe: a moral modernist model’ / article by Stanley Tigerman 

in Perspecta no.22 1986 / p.112-135 

‘The Barcelona Pavilion: the walls came first’ / article by Pere Joan Ravetllat 

in Sites no.15 1986 / p.36-42 

‘The politics of Mies van der Rohe’ / article by Elaine S Hochman 

in Sites no.15 1986 / p.44-49 

1985/1986 

‘Mies van der Rohe Centennial Exhibition, the Museum of Modern Art, New York’ 

in Structurist no.25-26 1985-1986 / p.139-142 

1985 

‘Pavilion and pool at Mies van der Rohe House, Weston, Connecticut, 1982’ 

in GA Houses no.17 February 1985 / p.[24]-31 (text in 

Japanese+English) 

1984 

‘On the development of the conception of space in the works of Mies van der 

Rohe’ / article by Wolf Tegethoff 

in Daidalos no.13 September 15, 1984 / p.114-123 (text in 

German+English) 

‘The Seagram Building wins AIA’s 25-year Award’ (completed 1957. Architect: 

Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson) 

in Architecture, 73 April 1984 / p.22, 25

‘Critical architecture: between culture and form’ / article by K Michael Hays 

(modern architecture with emphasis on works by Mies van der Rohe) 

in Perspecta no.21 1984 / p.14-29 

1983 

‘Mies’s greatest bequest’ / article by Gerald R McSheffrey 

in Architectural Education no.3 1983 / p.108-113 

1982 

‘Architecture of independent elements: Miesian design approach’ / article by 

Masami Takayama 

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (141) June 1982 / p.11-16 


‘Crown of the city: the Seagram building reconsidered’ / article by Kurt Walter 

Forster 

in Skyline. February 1982 / p.28-29 

1980 

‘Mies’ New National Gallery: an essay on architectural content’ / article by Peter 

Serenyi 

in Harvard Architecture Review, 1 Spring 1980 / p.180-189 

1979 

‘History: Confrontation: 1933 Mies van der Rohe and the Third Reich’ / article by 

Elaine Hochman 

in Oppositions (18) Fall 1979 / p.48-59 

‘Miesian space concept in domestic architecture’ / article by Howard Dearstyne 

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism (103) April 1979 / p.3-8 (text 

in Japanese) 

‘Who and what inspired Mies van der Rohe in Germany’ / article by Sandra 

Honey 

in Architectural Design, 49 (2-3) 1979 / p.99-102

1978 

‘Mies at the Bauhaus’ / article by Sandra Honey 

in AA Quarterly, 10 (1) 1978 / p.51-59 

‘Organic versus classic’ / article by Peter Blundell-Jones (Mies van der Rohe / 

Hans Scharoun) 

in AA Quarterly, 10 (1) 1978 / p.10-20 

1977 

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’ / article by Reginald Malcolmson and others 

(“A paradox of humility and superstar”) 

in Inland Architect, 21 May 1977 / whole issue 

‘The New York convention center: another episode in the crisis of modern 

architecture’ / article by Juan Pablo Bonta 

in AA Quarterly, 9 nos.3-4 1977 / p.[82]-90 

1976 

‘Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1945-1950; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der 

Rohe’ / article by Kirk Lohan 

in Global Architecture Detail, 1 1976 / p.1-59 (text in 

Japanese+English) 

1972 

‘Mies van der Rohe’s last work: the Toronto-Dominion Centre forms a 

magnificently vital new focal point of great structures and open plazas for 

downtown Toronto’ 

in Contract Interiors, 132 (2) September 1972 / p.116-123 

‘The IBM Tower: 52 stories of glass and steel on a site that seemed “almost 

nonexistent”’ / article by Rob Cuscaden 

in Inland Architect, 16 (6) July 1972 / p.9-13 

‘The measure of Mies’ / article by John Winter 

in Architectural Review, 151 February 1972 / p.95-105 

‘From Schinkel to the Bauhaus: five lectures on the growth of Modern Germany’ / 

article by Julius Posener and Dennis Sharp (includes essay ‘Haring, Scharoun, 

Mies and Le Corbusier’) 

in Architectural Association Papers, 5 1972 / whole issue

1970 

‘He loved space and amplitude, and a wide chair suited him best’ / article by 

James Johnson Sweeney (a tribute to Mies van der Rohe) 

in Inland Architect, 14 (7) August 1970 / p.24-25 

1969 

‘Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)’ 

in Progressive Architecture, 50 November 1969 / p.8-11 

‘Gropius o Mies’ / article by Giiovanni Klaus Koenig 

in Casabella, 33 November 1969 / p.34-39 (text in Italian) 

‘Mies’ / article by Walter McQuade 

in Architectural Forum, 131 (3) October 1969 / p.90 

‘Mies van der Rohe: some notes on the architect and his work’ 

in Architectural Forum, 131 (3) October 1969 / p.35-39 

‘Obituary: Mies van der Rohe 1886-1969’ 

in Architectural Record, 146 (3) September 1969 / p.9 

‘Truth, clarity and order…: the messages of Mies’ 

in Inland Architect, 13 (8) August-September 1969 / p.9-13 

‘Mies van der Rohe, 1886-1969’ / article by Walter Segal 

in Architects’ Journal, 150 (35) August 27, 1969 / p.472-475 

‘Obituary: Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) 

in The New York Times August 19, 1969 

‘Mies van der Rohe’’ / article by Alison and Peter Smithson 

in Architectural Design, 39 July 1969 / p.363-366 

‘A latterday temple in Berlin’ (New National Gallery, Berlin; Architect: Ludwig 

Mies van der Rohe) 

in Architectural Design, 39 February 1969 / p.79-88 

‘Mies van der Rohe, 1886-1969’ 

in Arkitekten, 71 (21) 1969 / p.493-495 (text in Danish)

1968 

‘Mies speaks: “I do not design buildings, I develop buildings”’ / article by Ludwig 

Mies van der Rohe 

in Architectural Review, 145 December 1968 / p.451-452 

‘Mies in Berlin: new National Gallery, Berlin….’ 


‘A Mies monument’ (The new National Gallery, West Berlin, Germany) 

in Progressive Architecture, 49 November 1968 / p.108-113 

‘The new National Gallery in Berlin by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architectural Record, 144 (5) November 1968 / p.115-122 

‘The new National Gallery in Berlin; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architectural Forum, 129 (3) October 1968 / p.34-47 

1967 

‘Germany: Mies’ roof in Berlin’ 

in Arena/Interbuild, 83/14 December 1967 / p.32-35 

1966 

‘Gold medal of the Chicago Chapter of the AIA to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architectural Record July 1966 / p.36 

‘Opere recenti di Mies van der Rohe: School of Social Service Administration, 

University of Chicago, Illinois; Meredith Memorial Hall, Drake University, Des 

Moines, Iowa; Science Center, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa.’ / article by 

Enrico D Bona 

in Casabella, 30 (306) June 1966 / p.38-45 (text in Italian) 

‘The problem of Mies’ / article by Charles Jencks 

in Architectural Association Journal, 81 May 1966 / p.301-304 

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 80 Jahre’ / article by Werner Blaser and Jurgen 

Joedicke 

in Bauen un Wohnen, 20 May 1966 / whole issue (text in 

German)

‘Mies at 80’ 

in Progressive Architecture, 47 March 1966 / p.194-195 

1965 

‘Mies in Baltimore: slender frame of concrete’ / article by Donald J Canty 

in Architectural Forum, 123 (5) December 1965 / p.36-39 

‘Mies designs Federal Center [Chicago]’ 

in Architectural Record, 137 March 1965 / p.125-134 

‘Mies’ urban spaces’ / article by Peter Carter 

in Architects’ Year Book, 11 1965 / p.11-25 

1964 

‘Recent work of Mies van der Rohe in the US’ (Charles Center Office building, 

Baltimore; Home Federal building, Des Moines, Iowa; Federal Center, Chicago; 

Gallery of the 20 th century, Berlin) 

in Architectural Design, 34 January 1964 / p.10-22 

1963 

‘Mies’ (One Charles Center, Baltimore; Home Federal Savings and Loan 

Association of Des Moines, Iowa; Museum of 20 th century art, Berlin; Lafayette 

Towers, Detroit, Michigan; 2400 Lakeview Apartments, Chicago, Illinois) 

in Architectural Forum, 119 September 1963 / p.80-91 

1962 

‘Charles Center Office Building, Baltimore; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architectural Design, 32 October 1962 / p.477-478 

‘Bacardi Building, Mexico City; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architectural Design, 32 October 1962 / p.470-473 

‘Administration Building’ (Ron Bacardi Administration Building, Mexico City; 

Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) 

in Arts & Architecture, 79 May 1962 / p.18-19

‘Mies builds in Mexico’ (Ron Bacardi Co., Mexico City; Architect: Ludwig Mies 

van der Rohe) 

in Architectural Forum, 116 January 1962 / p.92-95 

‘An administrative building in Mexico’ (Ron Bacardi Administration Building, 

Mexico City; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) 

in Zodiac, 10 1962 / p.182-187 

1961 

‘Towards a unity’ (Mies van der Rohe) 

in Arts & Architecture, 78 April 1961 / p.10-13 

‘Mies van der Rohe, an appreciation on the occasion of his 75 th birthday’ / article 

by Peter Carter 

in Architectural Design, 31 March 1961 / p.95-121 

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, winner, gold medal, American Institute of Architects’ 

in Architectural Record March 1960 / p.25 

‘Mies van der Rohe and the platonic verities’ / article by James Marston Fitch 

in Columbia University. School of Architecture. Four Great Makers of 

Modern Architecture, 1961 / p.154-163 

‘People, mass production, and the Miesian universal’ / article by Peter Blake 



‘Miesian space concept in domestic architecture’ / article by Howard Dearstyne 



‘The urban space concepts of Mies van der Rohe’ / article by Jacques Brownson 



‘Mies, the educator’ / Daniel Brenner 

in Columbia University. School of Architecture. Four Great Makers 

of Modern Architecture, 1961 / p.113-117

‘A personal testament’ / article by Philip Johnson (on Mies van der Rohe) 

in Columbia University. School of Architecture. Four Great Makers 

of Modern Architecture, 1961 / p.109-112 

‘Mies van der Rohe at Illinois Institute of Technology’ / article by Henry T Heald 



‘A conversation with Mies’ / article by Gerhardt M Kallman and Peter Blake 



‘The place of Mies in American architecture’ / article by William H Jordy 

in Zodiac, 8 1961 / p.28-33 

1960 

‘Lafayette Park, Detroit; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architectural Design, 30 September 1960 / p.353-354 

‘Redevelopment project by Mies van der Rohe’ (Lafayette Park, Detroit, Mich.) 

in Arts & Architecture, 77 July 1960 / p.15-17 

‘Presentation of the Gold Medal of Honor to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, FAIA’ 

in American Institute of Architects Journal, 33 June 1960 / p.90-91 

‘Redevelopment program for Newark’ (Colonnade Park, Newark, N.J.; Architect: 

Mies van der Rohe) 

in Architectural Record, 127 April 1960 / p.174-177 

‘A medal for L. Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architectural Forum, 112 April 1960 / p.132-137 

‘[Houston Museum of Fine Arts], new wing; Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architectural Forum, 112 January 1960 / p.128-129 

‘The Seagram Building; Architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson 

in Arts & Architecture, 77 January 1960 / p.14-15

1959 

‘Cullinan Hall of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas’ 

in Architectural Design, 29 September 1959 / p.354-358 

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’ / article by H T Cadbury-Brown (address at an 

ordinary general meeting of the Architectural Association, May 27, 1959, Mies 

answered questions) 

in Architectural Association Journal, 75 July-August 1959 / p.26-46 

‘Presentation of the Royal Gold Medal for 1959 to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’ / 

article by Basil Spence 

in Royal Institute of British Architects Journal, 66 July 1959 / 

p.304-308 

‘Seagram house re-assessed’ / article by Thomas H Creighton 

in Progressive Architecture, 40 June 1959 / p.140-145 

‘Seagram Building, New York; Architects: Mies van der Rohe and Philp Johnson’ 

in Architectural Design, 29 February 1959 / p.72-77 

‘Un monumento a New York: il “Seagram Building”; Architects: Mies van der 

Rohe and Philip Johnson’ 

in Casabella Continuita (223) January 1959 / p.3-11 (text in 

Italian) 

‘Seagram’s New York’ 

in Bauen und Wohnen (1) January 1959 / p.1-18 (text in 

German+English) 

‘The lessons of the master’ / article by Lewis Mumford 

in American Institute of Architects Journal, 31 January 1959 / 

p.19-23 

1958 

‘Seagram assessed’ / article by William H Jordy 


‘L’oeuvre de Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, 29 (79) September 1958 / whole 

issue (text in French)

‘Seagram’s bronze tower’ 

in Architectural Forum, 1009 July 1958 / p.66-77 

‘The Seagram building: Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson architects’ / article 

by Arthur Drexler 

in Architectural Record, 123 July 1958 / p.139-147 

‘Mies’s one-office office builidng’ 

in Architectural Forum, 110 February 1958 / p.94-97 

1957 

‘The Miesian superblock: famed architect Mies van der Rohe and his team 

provide a classic prototype for urban renewal’ 

in Architectural Forum, 106 March 1957 / p.128-133 

1956 

‘[Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology]’ 

in Architectural Record, 120 August 1956 / p.134-139 

‘[Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology]’ 

in Architectural Forum, 105 August 1956 / p.104-111 

‘Mies van der Rohe, Chicago School, 1938-1956’ / article by Werner Blaser 

in Bauen und Wohnen, 10 (7) July 1956 / p.217-229 

1955 

‘Student commons [Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.]’ 

in Progressive Architecture, 36 July 1955 / p.104-106 

‘Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Arts & Architecture, 72 April 1955 / p.16-18 

1954 

‘Building for the College of Architecture, Planning and Design, Illinois Institute of 

Technology, Chicago’ 

in Arts & Architecture, 71 August 1954 / p.16-19

‘L’exposition Mies van der Rohe’ / article by Pierre Arrou 

in Construction Moderne, 70 May 1954 / p.118-119 

‘860 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, USA’ 

in Architect and Building News, 205 April 8, 1954 / p.400-409 

1953 

‘A proposed National Theater for the City of Mannheim; Architect: Mies van der 

Rohe’ 

in Arts & Architecture, 70 October 1953 / p.17-19 

‘Mies van der Rohe’s theater for Mannheim’ 

in Architectural Forum, 99 July 1953 / p.128-131 

‘The end of the Bauhaus’ / article by Mies van der Rohe 

in North Carolina State University. School of Design. [Student 

Publication Magazine] 3, (3) Spring, 1953 / p.16-18 

‘[Mies van der Rohe]’ 

in Arts & Architecture, 69 March 1952 / p.16-31 

‘A chapel: Robert F Carr Memorial Chapel of St Saviour, Illinois, Institute of 

Technology; Architect: Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Arts & Architecture, 70 January 1953 / p.18-19 

1952 

[Mies van der Rohe’s new buildings]’ (860 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago; Illinois 

Institute of Technology; Row house plan for Robert H McCormick, Jr.) 

in Architectural Forum, 97 November 1952 / p.93-111 

‘The evolution of Wright, Mies and Le Corbusier’ / article by Henry-Russell 

Hitchcock 

in Perspecta, (1) Summer 1952 / p.8-15 

‘Mies van der Rohe’ (Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago; Weekend House for 

Dr Edith Farnsworth, Plano, Illinois; Promontory Apartments, Chicago; Illinois 

Institute of Technology, Chicago) 

in Arts & Architecture, 69 March 1952 / p.16-31

1951 

‘”Endless architecture” a lecture delivered at the AA on June 12 th ’ / article by 

Richard Llewelyn Davies 

in Architectural Association Journal, 67 November 1951 / 

p.106-112 

‘The first house built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe since he came to America in 

1938’ (Farnsworth House near Chicago) 

in Architectural Forum, 95 October 1951 / p.156-161 

1950 

‘Architecture and technology’ (Architect: Mies van der Rohe) 

in Arts & Architecture, 67 October 1950 / p.30 

‘Mies van der Rohe e Frank Lloyd Wright poete dello spazio’ / article by Bruno 

Zevi 

in Metron (37) July-August 1950 / p.6-18 

‘Museum to show model of first all glass and steel apartment house; Architect: 

Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Museum of Modern Art [New York] Press Releases, 13 1950 

1947 

‘Mies van der Rohe designed and arranged this exhibition of his own work in the 

second floor gallery in the Museum of Modern Art’ 

in Arts & Architecture, 4 December 1947 / p.24-27 

‘Mies van der Rohe’ (review of his work as depicted in photos from the Museum 

of Modern Art, NY) 

in Architectural Record, 102 September 1947 / p.81-88 

‘Mies van der Rohe: his first large US exhibition shows how he helped create the 

modern style from chairs to skyscrapers’ / article by A James Speyer 

in ArtNews, 46 September 1947 / p.20-23 

‘L’institut de technologie de l’Illinois’ 

in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, 18 June 1947 / p.36-39 (text in 

French)

1946 

‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’ (review of book by Philip Johnson) 

in Architectural Forum vol.87 November 1946 / p.132, 136, 140 

‘illinois tech replans 16 city blocks; Architect: Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architectural Forum, 85 September 1946 / p.102-103 

‘Drawings for the Library and Administrative Building, Illinois Institute’ 

in Architects’ Journal, 103 January 3, 1946 / p.11-15 

‘Metals and Minerals Research Building: Illinois Institute of Technology; 

Architect: Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architects’ Journal, 103 January 3, 1946 / p.7-10 

1944 

‘Basic teaching of architecture’ / article by Howard Dearstyne (Architect: Mies 

van der Rohe) 

in Liturgical Arts, 12 May 1944 / p.56-60 

1938 

‘Becomes head of Architecture at Armour Institute of Technology’ 

in Weekly News Letter of the Art Institute of Chicago 1938 / 

p.151, 153 

1932 

‘Looking into glass’ / article by Raymond McGrath (includes commentary on 

the use of glass by Mies van der Rohe) 

in Architectural Review, 71 January 1932 / p.28-34 

1931 

‘Exposition internationale du batiment, a Berlin, 1931’ (Mies van der Rohe) 

in Architecture Vivante Autumn-Winter 1931 / p.27, pl.31-33 

(text in French) 

‘La maison Tugendhat, a Brno, 1931 = The Tugendhat home at Brno; Architect: 

Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architecture Vivante Autumn-Winter 1931 / p.28, pl.34-38 

(text in French)

‘Die Halle II auf der Bauaustellung’ / article by Wilhelm Lotz (one-story houses 

by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich) 

in Form: Zeitschrift fur gestaltende Arbeit, 6 (7) July 15, 1931 / 

p.241-249 (text in German) 

‘[Small home designed by Mies van der Rohe for the Berlin Exposition of 1931]’ 

in Wasmuths Monatshefte fur Baukunst, 15 June 1931 / p.244-245 

1930 

‘Model for glass and steel apartment house; Architect: Mies van der Rohe’ 

in Architectural Record October 1930 / p.327-358 

1928 

‘Mies van der Rohe’ / article by Christian Zervos (elevation and plan of a brick 

country house and other house) 

in Cahiers d’Art, 3 (1) 1928 / p.35-38 pl. facing p.35 (text in 

French) 

1927 

‘Exposition du “Werkbund” a Stuttgart, L’Habitation’ (illustration of work by Mies 

van der Rohe and others) 

in Cahiers d’Art, 2 (7-8) 1927 / p.287-292 (text in French) 

Websites 

www.miesbcn.com/en/foundation.html 

www.iit.edu/giving/mies 

www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe.html 

www.designboom.com/portrait/mies/bg.html 

Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian 

March 2009

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