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Ludwig van der Rohe
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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
&"The sketch, the idea put on paper, has almost become synonymous with the creative act,&" writes Ludwig Glaeser. Each of the drawings in this portfolio-sized, spiral-bound book is a germinal act of architectural creation. The sketches represent projects that for one reason or another were never constructed, and so for those interested in the full range of Mies's architectural concepts, the book serves as a necessary supplement to those that are based largely on his built projects. Glaeser states that &"Mies van der Rohe's fame as one of the founders of modern architecture rests on five projects he conceived between 1921 and 1923. Several drawings for these projects&-the Friedrichstrasse Off...
Mies Van Der Rohe
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Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium
220 million Americans crowd together in the 3% of the country that is urban. 35 million people live in the vast metropolis of Tokyo, the most productive urban area in the world. The central city of Mumbai alone has 12 million people, and Shanghai almost as many. We choose to live cheek by jowl, in a planet with vast amounts of space. Yet despite all of the land available to us, we choose to live in proximity to cities. Using economics to understand this phenomenon, the urban economist uses the tools of economic theory and empirical data to explain why cities exist and to analyze urban issues such as housing, education, crime, poverty and social interaction. Drawing on the success of his Lind...
