Franz Schulze's acclaimed biography is a captivating story of the life, designs, and ideas that made Mies van der Rohe one of the world's most celebrated modern architects.
"The most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best....This is a genuinely readable book....Because no writer has ever before probed into Mies's life at such depth, we have here the first definitive reconstruction of the architect's personal habits, loves, fears, triumphs, loneliness and (in his old age) agonies."--Paul Gapp, Chicago Tribune
"A herculean, generally successful effort to present Mies's work in terms of both character and context....The substance is impressive and much of the material is fresh and revealing....This book has obviously been a long labor of love and respect for which no source has been left untouched."--Ada Louise Huxtable, New York Times Book Review
"Schulze's excellent book...is absolutely worthy of its subject. Soundly researched, vividly detailed, and hard to fault critically, it is the most complete survey ever written of Mies'[s] life and works....No one else has approached Schulze's achievement in telling the whole story over eight decades."--Allan Temko, San Francisco Chronicle Review
"Schulze has both the gift of an architectural historian able to render Mies's building innovations and that of a biographer able to paint the humanity and shortcomings of the man."--Jane Holtz Kay, Christian Science Monitor
"By its broad scope, its eloquent style, and, above all, its prodigious scholarship, this book clearly establishes itself as an indispensable volume for the library of the serious Mies scholar."--Louis Rocah, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
"In Schulze's hands Mies is no longer the impassive monolith he has sometimes seemed to be, but a complex human being whose varying moods reflected and affected the vicissitudes of his life and work....Yet, in this model architectural biography, [Schulze] also knows and brilliantly demonstrates the integral nexus of architecture and life."--Thomas S. Hines, Progressive Architecture
"Franz Schulze's Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography captivates from the very first paragraph....The writer is a skillful storyteller. In his hands, Mies's life acquires the intensity and dramatic progression of a novel."--Juan Pablo Bonta, Design Book Review
"A revelation....The man who emerges from its pages is not cold and rational but exuberant and illogical."--Donald Davis, Newsweek
"[A] readable, well-researched and sympathetic biography."--Mark Girouard, Washington Post Book World
"The standard life of Mies for some time to come."--William H. Jordy, The New Criterion
"[A] distinguished and eloquent biography."--Paul Goldberger, New York Times
"[A] magnificent biography."--Diana Ketcham, The Oakland Tribune

原书只有32开大小，150页，却言简意赅、一字一珠，清晰明快、史料丰富，极其适合建筑学入门及深化！
原书早已没有再版，可惜可叹！

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Digital technologies have changed architecture--the way it is taught, practiced, managed, and regulated. But if the digital has created a "paradigm shift" for architecture, which paradigm is shifting? In The Alphabet and the Algorithm, Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identical copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to the shaping of architectural modernity: in the fifteenth century, Leon Battista Alberti's invention of architectural design, according to which a building is an identical copy of the architect's design; and, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the mass production of identical copies from mechanical master models, matrixes, imprints, or molds. The modern power of the identical, Carpo argues, came to an end with the rise of digital technologies. Everything digital is variable. In architecture, this means the end of notational limitations, of mechanical standardization, and of the Albertian, authorial way of building by design. Charting the rise and fall of the paradigm of identicality, Carpo compares new forms of postindustrial digital craftsmanship to hand-making and the cultures and technologies of variations that existed before the coming of machine-made, identical copies. Carpo reviews the unfolding of digitally based design and construction from the early 1990s to the present, and suggests a new agenda for architecture in an age of variable objects and of generic and participatory authorship.

本文集汇集了作者十余年来在中国近代建筑史研究方面的代表性成果。内容涉及到中国建筑现代转型的诸多重要问题和个案，其中包括近代建筑制度的建立，晚清新政时期最重要的建筑物陆军部衙署及其设计者沈琪、中国近代第一部建筑学著作《建筑新法》及其作者张锳绪、中国近代建筑人才的出现和学科确立的过程及建筑教育的发展、中国近代建筑美学思想的发展、民国时期最重要的纪念性建筑——南京中山陵的设计、中国近代杰出的建筑师杨廷宝的建筑特色、杰出的建筑家梁思成和其妻子林徽因的中国建筑史写作、他的历史研究与现代中国风格建筑的理想在他于1949年以前参与设计的惟一“大屋顶”建筑——南京中央博物院——中的反映、以及近代国民党人经营时间最长的城市——广州——在1910至1930年代的发展。
在研究中作者从政治史、社会史、文化史和艺术史多学科角度提出问题，并综合运用历史方法，进行史实考证、数据统计、文本解读、形式分析，乃至跨文化比较，使得其建筑史研究不仅见物，而且也见背景；不仅见人，而且也见思想；不仅回答“是什么”，而且也回答“如何是”，“为何是”。
本书对于了解和研究中国的建筑史、建筑史学史、设计史、城市史、视觉文化史都具有参考价值和借鉴意义。