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An Icon of Modernism

This essential and comprehensive Mies monograph focuses in its analysis on Mies' design intentions: it reconstructs the buildings in their orginal state, examines them from the present day persepctive and rediscovers the inspiring architecture of a great modern master. The book presents eighty of Mies' works in chronological order. Approximately thirty of these works are analyzed in detail in three parts. In the first part, the construction is documented in its built state; for this all the ground plans were redrawn by the author. The second part outlines the changes to the buildings and the third part develops the results of this investigation with regard to their relevance to the contemporary view of Mies' work.

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‘Less is More’ reflects the idea of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who only retained the essentials in his designs. This principle is also applicable in different areas of pain medicine.Several pioneers have worked hard to introduce the multidisciplinary approach to obtain the most appropriate treatment for the patient. Most of those pioneers received the Bonica Award before me, and I am happy that those persons mentored me and stimulated me in understanding pain management and developing my career. Pain management has known a great evolution, from accepting pain because of an underlying disease to recognizing pain as the fifth vital sign. The rise in interest in (interventional) pain management evolved parallel to the introduction of evidence-based medicine. Most physicians welcome reviews summarizing the available literature. There are many pitfalls of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, such as the interpretation of the information, which is predominantly done by epidemiologists, who have little clinical background to make a distinction between the effect of the treatment in different diagnoses. Guidelines are based on correct diagnosis, weighing the potential for complications against the anticipated benefits, are progressively introduced and should guide physicians in establishing a treatment plan. A group of physicians normally prepares these guidelines.The golden rule in the treatment selection is ‘Less is More’.

El legado arquitectónico de Lilly Reich ha sido reconocido por la crítica de forma discontinua. Elogios, ambigüedades y omisiones han configurado el relato histórico de una de las primeras mujeres que, con formación reglada y en calidad de miembro del Werkbund Alemán, innovó en el diseño de arquitecturas efímeras, interiores y mobiliario. Este artículo, a través de un trabajo fundamentado en archivos históricos, mapea detalladamente su carrera profesional y sus logros –como arquitecta y diseñadora; en solitario y en colaboración con Mies van der Rohe– y compara lo que hizo con lo que de ella se dijo. La investigación demuestra que la línea paralela entre su obra y crítica se esfuma a partir de trabajar asociada a uno de los maestros del Movimiento Moderno. Asimismo, el estudio constata que la historia de la arquitectura posterior tampoco reconoció su labor durante décadas. Conforme Lilly Reich se acercaba a Mies, iba desapareciendo.

Nicholas Fox Weber uncovers the scientific currents threading through the history of this pioneering German school of design. Nicholas Fox Weber uncovers the scientific currents threading through the history of this pioneering German school of design. “Yellow-Red-Blue,” 1925 by Wassily Kandinsky, in the collection of Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Facing the most deterministic approaches that characterize the most functional architecture in collective housing at the moment, as it happens in the coetaneous proposals of the E. May office for Frankfort, where the diversity of programs are solved in different buildings5, or those previous of Hilberseimer, more visionary, where the variation allows a systematized growth of the program as an answer to the change on size of the family unit6, Mies proposes the idea of transformable free space, based on minimum internal structural interference that allows to organize diverse ways of understanding domestic life. The dimensional relation of Mies' proposal with the proposed schematic floor plans is very precise since, with the indicated metric system, the house with three modules (a) has a facade of 10.23 m and a depth of 8.83 m very similar to the type II of the Stuttgart file. [...]the rooftop, by including service elements, is formed with the height of one more floor. Reich together with Mies take part in pavilions 4 and 5, but only in pavilion 4 for the Association of German Glass Manufacturers, the responsibility that accompanies the names of Lilly Reich and Mies van der Rohe reaches the degree of Raumgestaltung or spatial conception, a differentiating term with which the architectural character of this intervention stands out in relation to the previous considerations21.

Several recent casestudies allow to highlight the role of the technology, addressed not only to overcome height limits, but also to actuate regenerative operations on existing tall buildings, and the necessity of associating, to the increase of density in the urban fabric, the development of an intensity of uses and relationships that can arise and intertwine in it. At the beginning of the Thirties, these reflections were at the hearth of the international debate, both for the publication of Hoogbouw (1930) by Johannes Duiker, where the author supported this building type as a fundamental tool for redesigning the city, and for the discussion about the densification and the evaluation of different expressions of the residential building during the III CIAM in Brussels in 1930 (\"Rational Land Development\") where, even if in the substancial assonance about the great potentialities of the vertical constructions, also diverging points of view emerged. For the symbolic role and the dimensional value, the state of abandonment and scruffiness of the great vertical volumes always arouses wide debates, as testified by the episodes of the President Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, of the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang and of the Torre David in Caracas, a 45-storey \"vertical favela\" today occupied by a new community of 2.500 squatters and awarded at the Venice Biennale in 2012 as the best example of the concept of \"Common Ground\". Recent case-studies show examples of requalification both of existing residential buildings, for the improvement of the performances and of the comfort, and of other buildings it is not foreseen a residential use for: the first is exemplified by the intervention for the Tour Bois le Pretre by Frédéric Druot Architecture and Lacaton & Vassal in Paris (2011), that regarded the addition of balconies and winter gardens to the existing dwellings, ensuring more comfortable life conditions and an improvement of the energy performances, of the second it is emblematic the project for the Silo Fenaco in Fribourg (2005-2009) by Lehmann Fidanza, that consisted in the transformation of a silo for depositing the wheat in a residential tower with 19 floors (Fig. 4) thanks to the heightening of the volume, the vertical and horizontal subdivision of the interior spaces, the introduction of a new distribution tower and the creation of a system of openings for the facade.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the leading figures of twentieth-century architecture. For architects and many others who are committed to the modernist tradition, he is a pivotal figure. With in-depth, scholarly essays and opulent photographs and plans, this book traces the multifaceted development of his work, including his first Berlin buildings, his villa projects, his work at the Bauhaus in the 1930s, and his American projects of the postwar years. Jean-Louis Cohen was the director of the Institut français d'architecture until 2003 and is currently a professor at New York University. He has an established reputation as a leading international historian of architecture. His broad and encompassing perspective makes this book a reliable and comprehensive introduction to the work of Mies van der Rohe. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe gehörte zu den führenden Persönlichkeiten in der Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts und ist für Architekten und viele andere, die sich der Tradition der Moderne verpflichtet haben, eine Schlüsselfigur. Mit wissenschaftlich fundierten Texten und opulentem Plan- und Fotomaterial zeichnet das Buch die facettenreiche Entwicklung seines Werkes nach: Die ersten Berliner Bauten, seine Villenprojekte und Tätigkeit am Bauhaus in den dreißiger Jahren sowie die amerikanischen Projekte der Nachkriegszeit. Jean-Louis Cohen, bis 2003 Direktor des Institut français d'architecture und zur Zeit Professor an der New York University, hat einen etablierten Ruf als international führender Architekturhistoriker. Seine umfassende Perspektive macht das Buch zu einer verlässlichen Einführung in das Werk Mies van der Rohes.