{"product_id":"mies-by-detlef-mertins-9781838668174","title":"Mies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the most readable, comprehensive, and beautiful book ever published on one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects, now available with a stunning new cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for the beauty and purity of his work, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built remarkable houses, skyscrapers, museums, and multibuilding campuses. Accompanied by more than 700 drawings, photographs, plans, and diagrams, \u003cem\u003eMies\u003c\/em\u003e features a rich and highly readable text by Mertins that traces the aesthetic and intellectual context for all of Mies van der Rohe’s work. The book includes in-depth discussions of his most important buildings and projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe clarity of Mies’s architecture belies the diversity of his interests, which included philosophy and science as well as design. Mertin’s rigorous and accessible text offers readers a clear description of all the most important of Mies’s buildings, along with the intellectual contexts behind their design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes such buildings as: the Barcelona Pavilion in Spain; the Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic; S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA; and the New National Gallery in Berlin, Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46833304731884,"sku":"9781838668174","price":220.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/17666563482842.jpg?v=1758451593","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/mies-by-detlef-mertins-9781838668174","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}