Light crease marks on the front cover next to the spine. Very faint toning to the page edges, but the prints and the text are very clear and in excellent condition. In German and English. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (18861969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer and is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture. In the 1930s, Mies was the last director of the Bauhaus, a ground-breaking school of modernist art, design and architecture. This auction house catalogue of photographs of all major buildings and projects of Mies' work during his Berlin years, (some in various stages of planning or building) contains 123 illustrations (every lot is shown).