Authors on Architecture: Neumann on van der Rohe
In-person and Zoom program
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Join the SAH/SCC and the Neutra Institute for Survival
Through Design as we host a very special in-person, Authors on Architecture
event. On Saturday, March 29th, author Dietrich Neumann will talk
about his new book, Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time (Yale
University Press, 2024).
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
(1886–1969) was a German-born American architect and designer whose work in
Europe and North America has had an enduring influence on modern and
contemporary architecture worldwide. During his sixty-year career, he
fundamentally rethought architectural types that shaped modern life, including
the office building, apartment building, and private home. True to his alleged
dictum “less is more,” Mies van der Rohe’s style is characterized by utmost
simplicity, elegance of materials, and radical formal and functional
innovation, as exemplified by such iconic projects as the Farnsworth House in
Plano, Illinois, and the Seagram Building in New York.
In this book, renowned architectural historian
Dietrich Neumann presents a new, critical look at Mies and complicates the
established narrative about him. Diverging from the reverential posture of many
existing accounts, Neumann insists on the importance of the contemporary
context—social, political, and architectural—for understanding the architect’s
life and work. The book draws on many overlooked archival and primary sources
to demonstrate how and why Mies’s designs were shaped and received,
foregrounding contemporary critics’ responses and the work of Mies’s
collaborators and peers.
Dietrich Neumann is
professor of the history of modern architecture at Brown University.
This event takes place at
the historic Neutra Office Building (1950, Richard J. Neutra) in Silver Lake.
It will also be broadcast live via Zoom and recorded for later viewing for
those who cannot attend in real time.
Authors
on Architecture: Neumann on van der Rohe—Saturday, March 1st, 2025; 11:00 AM-
12:30PM, Pacific Time; $5. Attend in person at the Neutra Office Building, 2379
Glendale Boulevard, Silver Lake or attend via Zoom. Go to www.sahscc.org and
pay via PayPal; or mail in order form with check; Zoom link sent upon
registration.
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