Mies van der Rohe Society

Mies Bookshelf

From Werner Blaser's book Mies van der Rohe, The Art of Structure.

"The complete contents of Mies' library have been excellently catalogued by Richard Seidel. These books are in the custody of the Department of Special Collections, the Library, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. In 1975, at my request, members of Mies' family, and a close friend (with whom he often read) identified the following titles as the ones most important to Mies. In 1952, Mies told students at the School of Design of the North Carolina State College that he owned 3,000 books in Germany and that he had brought 300 with him to America. Of these he could have sent back 270. He would not, he said, have discovered the remaining thirty unless he had read the 3,000. It is in this light that this list of some of his books (collection in the possession of the family) should be considered."

• • African Genesis

  • Robert Ardrey

    Published by Dell, New York 1961.

• • On the Soul

  • Aristotle

    Published by Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1924.

• • The Student's Oxford Aristotle: Politics and Poetics

  • Aristotle

    Published by Oxford University Press, 1942.

• • Studies over Bouwkunst, Styl en Samenleving

  • H.P. Berlage

    Published by W.L. and J. Brusse le Rotterdam, 1910.

• • The Difference of Man and the Difference it Makes

  • Adler, Mortimer J

    Published by Rinehart and Winston , 1967

• • The Territorial Imperative

  • Robert Ardrey

    Published by Atheneum, New York 1966.

• • The Basic Writings of Thomas Aquinas

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Published by Random House, New York 1945.

• • Grundlagen und Entwicklung der Architektur

  • H.P. Berlage

    Published by W.L. and J. Brusse, n.d.

• • The Greek and Roman Theater

  • Margarete Bieber

    Published by Princeton University Press, 1961.

• • Tempel und Teehaus in Japan

  • Werner Blaser

    Published by Otto Walter Verlag, Olten 1955.

• • Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps

  • Kees Boeke

    Published by J. Day, New York 1957.

• • Die Tektonik der Hellenen

  • Karl Boetticher

    Published by F. Riegel, Potsdam 1852.

• • Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge

  • Niels Bohr

    Published by John Wiley & Sons, New York 1958.

• • Science and Human Values

  • J. Bronowski

    Published by Julian Messner, New York 1956.

• • Die Villen des Palladio

  • Fritz Burger

    Published by Bayrische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Herausgegeben von Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1909.

• • Erziehung zur Demut

  • F.J.J. Buytendijk

    Published by A. Henn Verlag, Ratingen 1962.

• • Das Gesetz der Gotik

  • François Cali

    Published by Prestel Verlag, München 1963.

• • L'Ordre grec, essai sur le temple dorique

  • François Cali

    Published by Arthaud, Paris 1958.

• • Architecture of Truth

  • Published by G. Braziller, New York 1957.

• • Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrunderts (2 Bde.)

  • Houston Stewart Chamberlain

    Published by F. Bruckmann, München 1909.

• • The Rise of the Skyscraper

  • Carl W. Condit

    Published by The University of Chicago Press, 1952.

• • Principium Sapientiae, The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought

  • F.M. Cornford

    Published by Cambridge University Press, 1952.

• • The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays

  • F.M. Cornford

    Published by Cambridge University Press, 1950.

• • Philosophie der Technik

  • Friedrich Dessauer

    Published by Friedrich Cohen, Bonn 1927.

• • Pennsylvania German Barns

  • Charles Dornbusch

    Published by Schlechter's, Allentown, Pennsylvania 1958.

• • Naturerkenntnis: Band 6 von Das Weltbild, herausgegeben von Hans Prinzhorn

  • Fritz Dreuermann

    Published by Müller & Kiepenheuer Verlag, Postdam 1928.

• • Die Baukunst der Greichen

  • Josef Durm

    Published by Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1910.

• • Die Naturwissenschaft auf neuen Bahnen

  • A.S. Eddington

    Published by Friedrich Viehgweg, Braunschweig 1935.

• • The Expanding Universe

  • A.S. Eddington

    Published by Ann Arbor Paperbacks, 1958.

• • The American Architecture of Today

  • G.H. Egdell

    Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.

• • Ideas and Opinions

  • Albert Einstein

    Published by Crown, New York 1954.

• • Out of My Later Years

  • Albert Einstein

    Published by Philosophical Library, New York 1950.

• • The Mind as Nature

  • Loren Eiseley (the anthropologist and historian of the University of Pennsylvania)

    Published by Harper & Row, New York 1962. (The John Dewey Society Lectureship, 5.)

• • The Immense Journey

  • Loren Eiseley

    Published by Random House, New York 1957.

• • Darwin's Century

  • Loren Eiseley

    Published by Doubelday, New York 1968.

• • The Firmament of Time

  • Loren Eiseley

    Published by Atheneum, New York 1966.

• • Francis Bacon and the Modern Dilemma

  • Loren Eiseley

    Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Neb. 1962.

• • Die Lebensanschauungen der grossen Denker

  • Rudolph Eucken

    Published by Leipzig 1912.

• • Zwei Vorträge über Proportionen

  • Theodor Fischer

    Published by Oldenburg Verlag, 1934.

• • The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals

  • John Fitchem

    Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1961.

• • Der Weg zu mir

  • Raoul F. Francé

    Published by Alfred Kroner-Verlag, Leipzig 1927.

• • Streifzüge im Wassertropfen

  • Raoul F. Francé

    Published by Kosmos-Verlag, Stuttgart 1906.

• • Theorie des gegenwärtigen Zeitalters

  • Hans Freyer

    Published by Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1958.

• • Illustrierte Sittengeschichte (3 Bde., Ergänzungsbände)

  • Eduard Fuchs

    Published by Verlag Albert Langen, München 1912 (Privatdruck).

• • Abendländische Wandlung

  • Hans Gebser

    Published by Ullstein, Frankfurt a.M. 1960.

• • The Creative Process

  • Brewster Ghiselin

    Published by A. Mentor Book. 1952.

• • Being and Some Philosophers

  • Etienne Gilson

    Published by Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto 1949.

• • Die gotische Welt

  • A. von. Gleichen-Russwurm

    Published by Verlag Julius Hoffmann, 1919.

• • Greek Refinements: Studies in Temperamental Architecture

  • William Henry Goodyear

    Published by The Yale University Press, 1912.

• • Art and the Social Order

  • D.W. Gotshalk

    Published by University of Chicago Press, 1947.

• • Paul Klee

  • Will Grohmann

    Published by W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1954.

• • Über das Wesen des Kunstwerkes

  • Romano Guardini

    Published by Rainer Wunderlich-Verlag, Tübingen 1959.

• • Das Problem des geistigen Seins

  • Nicolai Hartmann

    Published by Verlag Walter Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1933.

• • Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik

  • Martin Heidegger

    Published by Verlag Diederich Cohen, Bonn 1929.

• • Man on a Rock

  • Richard Hertz

    Published by Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1946.

• • The International Style: Architecture Since 1922

  • Hitchcock and Johnson

    Published by W.W. Norton && Company, 1932.

• • The True Believer

  • Eric Hoffer

    Published by New American Library, New York 1963.

• • The Temper of Our Times

  • Eric Hoffer

    Published by Harper & Row, New York 1967.

• • The Nature of the Universe

  • Fred Hoyle

    Published by Harper && Brothers, New York 1950.

• • The University of Utopia

  • Robert M. Hutchins

    Published by The University of Chicago Press, 1953.

• • Ends and Means

  • Aldous Huxley

    Published by Harper & Brothers, New York 1937.

• • Evolution: The Modern Synthesis

  • Julian Huxley

    Published by Harper & Brothers, New York 1942.

• • New Bottles for New Wine

  • Julian Huxley

    Published by Harper, New York 1957.

• • Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture. Volume 1: Archaic Greece. The Mind of Athens

  • Werner Jaeger

    Published by Oxford University Press, 1945.

• • Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Published by The Modern Library, 1944.

• • Wandlungen der antiken Form

  • Heinz Kahler

    Published by Münchner Verlag, 1949.

• • Kritik der reinen Vernunft

  • Immanuel Kant

    Published by Insel Verlag, 1922.

• • Towards a Unified Cosmology

  • Reginald O. Kapp

    Published by Basic Books, New York 1960.

• • Weltwille und Wertwille

  • Dietrich Heinrich Kerler

    Published by Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1925.

• • Inside the Endless House

  • Frederick Kiesler

    Published by Simon and Schuster, 1964.

• • Von Palladio bis Schinkel

  • Paul Klopher

    Published by Paul Neff Verlag, 1911.

• • Diederichs

  • Gespräche Konfuzius

    Published by Jena 1921.

• • Aircraft

  • Le Corbusier

    Published by The Studio Publications Inc., 1935.

• • The Age of Overkill

  • Max Lerner

    Published by Simon and Schuster, New York 1962.

• • On Agression

  • Konrad Lorenz

    Published by Harcourt, Brace-World, New York 1966.

• • Whitehead and The Modern World

  • Victor Lowe Charles Hartshorne, and A.H Johnson

    Published by Beacon Press, Boston 1950.

• • Last Essays

  • Thomas Mann

    Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1959.

• • The Range of Reason

  • Jacques Maritain

    Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1953.

• • The Rights of Man and Natural Law

  • Jacques Maritain

    Published by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1943.

• • Philosophy of Nature

  • Jacques Maritain

    Published by Philosophical Library, New York 1951.

• • An Introduction to Philosophy

  • Published by Sheed && Ward, Inc. n.d.

• • Vom Geheimnis der Form und der Urform des Seins

  • Ernst Mossel

    Published by Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1938.

• • Theories of the Universe

  • Milton K. Munitz

    Published by The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois 1957.

• • Bridges of Human Understanding

  • John Nef

    Published by University Publishers, New York 1964.

• • A Search for Civilization

  • John Nef

    Published by Regnery, 1962.

• • The United States and Civilization

  • John Nef

    Published by The University of Chicago Press, 1942.

• • The Novices of Sais. Illustrations with 60 drawings by Paul Klee

  • Novalis

    Published by C. Valentin, New York 1949.

• • The Origin of Life

  • A.I. Oparin

    Published by Dover Publications, New York 1938 (1953).

• • The Open Mind: Eight Lectures (and Others)

  • J. Robert Oppenheimer

    Published by Simon & Schuster, New York 1955.

• • The Origin of Philosophy

  • Jose Ortega y Gasset

    Published by W.W. Norton, New York 1967.

• • What is Philosophy?

  • Jose Ortega y Gasset

    Published by W.W. Norton, New York 1960.

• • On Love

  • Jose Ortega y Gasset

    Published by World Publishing Co., Cleveland 1963.

• • The Dehumanization of Art (And Other Writings on Art and Culture)

  • Jose Ortega y Gasset

    Published by Doubleday, Garden City N.Y. 1956.

• • Invertebrate Spain

  • Jose Ortega y Gasset

    Published by W.W. Norton, New York 1937.

• • History as a System

  • Jose Ortega y Gasset

    Published by W.W. Norton, New York 1961.

• • The Modern Theme

  • Jose Ortega y Gasset

    Published by Harper & Brothers, New York 1961.

• • Man & People

  • Jose Ortega y Gasset

    Published by W.W. Norton, New York 1957.

• • Man & Crisis

  • Jose Ortega y Gasset

    Published by W.W. Norton, New York 1962.

• • Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism

  • Erwin Panofsky

    Published by The Archabbey Press, 1951.

• • Eiffel

  • Jean Prevost

    Published by Les Editions Rieder, 1929.

• • Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book

  • Lucien Price

    Published by Little Brown and Company, Boston. 1954.

• • Philosophie der Gegenwart

  • Alois Riehl

    Published by Leipzig, 1908.

• • Cathedrals of France

  • Auguste Rodin

    Published by Beacon Press, 1965 (original publication, 1914).

• • The Roots of American Culture

  • Constance Rourke

    Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York 1942.

• • The Dictionary of Philosophy

  • Dagobert D. Runes

    Published by Philosophical Library, New York 1942.

• • Authority and the Individual

  • Bertrand Russell

    Published by Beacon Press, Boston 1949.

• • Bertrand Russell's Best selected by Robert Egner

  • Bertrand Russell

    Published by Mentor Book, 1958.

• • The Scientific Outlook

  • Bertrand Russell

    Published by The Norton Library, 1931 (1959).

• • Die Wissensformen und die Gesellschaft, Problem einer Soziologie des Wissens

  • Max Scheler

    Published by Der Neue Geistes-Verlag, Leipzig 1926.

• • The Search for Order

  • Cecil J. Schneer

    Published by Harper & Brothers, 1960.

• • Sämtliche Werke in fünf Bänden

  • Arthur Schopenhauer

    Published by Insel Verlag. n.d.

• • What is Life? And Other Scientific Essays

  • Erwin Schrödinger

    Published by Doubleday, Garden City. N.Y. 1956.

• • Was ist Leben? Die lebende Zelle mit den Augen eines Physikers betrachtet

  • Erwin Schrödinger

    Published by L. Lehne-Verlag, München 1951.

• • Nature of the Greeks.

  • Erwin Schrödinger

    Published by Cambridge University Press, 1954.

• • Mind and Matter

  • Erwin Schrödinger

    Published by Cambridge University Press, 1958.

• • My View of the World

  • Erwin Schrödinger

    Published by The University Press, Cambridge 1964.

• • Science and Humanism, Physics in Our Time

  • Erwin Schrödinger

    Published by Cambridge University Press, 1952.

• • The Church Incarnate: The Sacred Function of Christian Architecture

  • Rudolf Schwarz

    Published by Henry Regnery Co., Chicago 1958

• • Von der Bebauung der Erde

  • Rudolf Schwarz

    Published by Verlag Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg 1949.

• • Vom Bau der Kirche

  • Rudolf Schwarz

    Published by Heidelberg 1947.

• • Wegweisung der Technik

  • Rudolf Schwarz

    Published by Aachener Werkbücher, Band 1.

• • Der Stil (2 Bde.)

  • Gottfried Semper

    Published by Friedrich Bruckmann's Verlag, München 1878.

• • Of Stars and Men: The Human Response to an Expanding Universe

  • Harlow Shapley

    Published by Beacon Press, Boston 1958.

• • The Religions of Man

  • Huston Smith

    Published by Harper & Row, New York 1958.

• • Schinkel-Monographie

  • Stahl, Fritz (pseud.) Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

    Published by E. Wasmuth, Berlin 1912.

• • The Autobiography of an Idea

  • Louis H. Sullivan

    Published by Press of the A.I.A., New York 1924.

• • The Art of War translated by Samuel B. Griffith

  • Sun Tzu

    Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1963.

• • The City of God

  • St. Augustine

    Published by London J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., New York first published edition E.P. Dutton & co. Ltd., 1931.

• • Evolution After Darwin Volume I: The Evolution of Life, Volume II: The Evolution of Man, Volume III: Issues in Evolution

  • Sol Tax

    Published by The University of Chicago, Centennial Discussions, 1960.

• • The Future of Man

  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

    Published by Harper & Row. New York 1964.

• • Of Growth and Form

  • D'Arcy Thompson

    Published by University Press, Cambridge 1945.

• • Walden and other Writings

  • Henry Thoreau

    Published by The Modern Library, New York 1937.

• • Greek Historical Thought from Homer to the Age of Heraclitus

  • Edited by Arnold J. Toynbee

    Published by New American Library, New York 1964.

• • Geschichte meines Lebens

  • Henry Van der Velde

    Published by Piper, 1962.

• • The Gothic Cathedral

  • Otto Von Simson

    Published by Bollingen Series, Second Edition, 1962.

• • Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet

  • Arthur Waley

    Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London 1956.

• • The World of Art

  • Paul Weiss

    Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1961.

• • The Relevance of Science, Creation and Cosmology

  • C.F. von Weizsäcker

    Published by Collins, London 1964.

• • The History of Nature

  • C.F. von Weizsäcker

    Published by The University of Chicago Press, 1949.

• • Die Tragweite der Wissenschaft, Band 1

  • C.F. von Weizsäcker

    Published by S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 1966.

• • Zum Weltbild der Physik

  • C.F. von Weizsäcker

    Published by S. Hirzel

• • The World View of Physics

  • C.F. von Weizsäcker

    Published by University of Chicago Press (1949), 1952.

• • Jahrbuch 1913: Die Kunst in Industrie und Handel

  • Werkbund

• • Jahrbuch 1914: Der Verkehr

  • Werkbund

• • Symmetrie

  • Hermann Weyl

    Published by Princeton University Press, 1952.

• • Dialogues of Alfred North as recorded by Lucien Price

  • Alfred North Whitehead

    Published by Little Brown, Boston 1954.

• • Adventures of Ideas

  • Alfred North Whitehead

    Published by Macmillan, New York 1947.

• • Science and the Modern World

  • Alfred North Whitehead

    Published by The New American Library, New York 1948.

• • Aspects of Form: A Symposium of Form in Nature and Art

  • Lancelot Law Whyte

    Published by Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York 1951.

• • Florentinische Introduktion

  • Leopold Ziegler

    Published by Felix Meiner Verlag, Leipzig 1912.

• • Zwischen Mensch und Wirtschaft

  • Leopold Ziegler

    Published by Otto Reichl Verlag, 1927.