1986 To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Modernism's most famous architect, Mies van der Rohe, commemorations from around the world include the reconstruction of the classic Barcelona Pavilion and the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA Annual Exhibition), as well as the original German edition of the book.
Author Fritz Neumeyer, who taught at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) and was a lecturer at Princeton University and others, recreated the critical information about Miss' work through his literary evidence, and inspired many of the impressions of Miss' work, publishing in More than thirty years later, it has become a classic book. The initial print run, including the subsequent English translation, is long out of print and a difficult book. The current collection of the Art Gallery was published in 1991 by MIT Press English translation and a simplified Chinese version translated by Chen Xuetung in 2020.
Unlike other Miss-themed books, the book's feature is that it focuses on Miss' text, rather than architectural images. For Neumeier, the texts left by this great builder of the twentieth century are beyond imagination, but they are essential research material for insight into the world of his thoughts. The book can be divided into two parts, namely the author's first six chapters discuss and discuss the process of Miss' thought, from the influence of early stonemason family life and the inspiration of Nietzsche's philosophy to his first architectural work, completed at the age of 21, a career that gradually developed after the construction of Riehl House (1907); the second Part of it is a weighty appendix — a collection of all of Miss' published and unpublished architectural writings, attempting to reconstruct his spiritual world and creative vision through manuscripts, notes, and the architect's collection, exploring the two-pronged battle between architecture and text and his The origin of the building.
