Mies at Home

<p><em>Mies at Home</em> is a radical rereading of one of the most significant periods in Mies van der Rohe’s career from the mid- to late 1920s when he was developing his seminal spatial ideas— ideas that would culminate in his celebrated design of the Tugendhat House. </p><p>The book examines how Mies’s experience of residing in his apartment doubling as a studio in central Berlin had an impact on his spatial concepts. It uncovers one of the most profound but virtually untold aspects of Mies’s development: how his visions of an ideal lifestyle came out of his own living experience and how they in turn informed his domestic architecture. Mies’s quest featured two breakthroughs. In the Weissenhof apartment building he conveyed a flexible and manifold lifestyle that many of the avant-garde artists including himself were practicing. Later in the Tugendhat House he put forward an alternative way of living that centered on contemplation.</p><p>Beautifully illustrated throughout <em>Mies at Home</em> offers a fresh investigation of the diverse intentions and strategies the architect used in creating his iconic open spaces. It will be an insightful read for researchers academics and students in architectural history and theory.</p>