Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Villa Wolf in Gubin: History and Reconstruction

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Mies van der Rohes Breakthrough to Modernity

War and destruction caused Villa Wolf, built between 1925 and 1927, to be largely forgotten. Yet this building, which is now to be rebuilt, is a key work by the German-born architect. He used it to apply new spatial and formal concepts, creating a building of exemplary, almost didactic clarity. This volume presents the history of the villa and documents the recent excavation of the basement as well as the graphic reconstruction.

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Dietrich Neumann (*1956) is Professor of Modern Architectural History at Brown University in Providence, USA, and Director of the John Nicholas Brown Centre for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. He held visiting professorships at Yale University and the University of Porto. He has worked on building types and materials, film sets and architectural illumination. He has received several awards for his research from the Society of Architectural Historians. He was President of the society from 2008 to 2010 and was elected a fellow in 2019.