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Mies van der Rohe - The Krefeld Villas

Publication Date: 2005

ISBN: 978-1-56898-658-6

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The architect proffered his only known assessment of the villas in a public dialogue at the Architectural Association in 1959. With thirty years of hindsight, Mies made his fateful condemnation: “I wanted to make this house [Haus Lange] much more in glass, but the client did not like that. I had great 1 trouble. ” This single remark—often published in tandem with an early pastel sketch of Haus Esters depicting a generously glazed garden facade or a photograph of the architect at work on the same—has been repeatedly cited to explain away these “compromised” works as the result of dif?cult clients.


Subject: Architecture and Design, Krefeld Mies van der Rohe, architecture, project, projects