The Artless Word: Mies van der Rohe on the Building Art

The Artless Word: Mies van der Rohe on the Building Art, by architectural theorist Fritz Neumeyer (1946–), who has taught at institutions including the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) and Princeton University, meticulously examined Mies’s surviving manuscripts, notes, and personal book collection. Through this scholarly investigation, he sought to reconstruct Mies’s intellectual world and creative vision, thereby uncovering crucial insights into the philosophical underpinnings of his architectural practice. This work challenges many entrenched assumptions about Mies’s legacy. The original German edition was published in 1986, while the definitive English translation, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1991, is now out of print and highly sought after. Only the simplified Chinese edition remains available.