Architectural photojournalists Robert Sharoff and William Zbaren, creators of the popular "American City" series, use the renovation of the architect Mies van der Rohe?s final commission, Chicago?s IBM Building, into a five-star Langham hotel as the jumping off point for a wide-ranging coffee table book that examines the noted Modernist?s life and work in his adopted city. Eventually, Mr. Sharoff concludes, Mies?s vision "came to define Chicago in much the same way that Bernini?s does Rome and Haussmann?s permeates Paris.
 
Product details
Publisher ? : ? Images Publishing Dist Ac (October 30, 2014)
Language ? : ? English
Hardcover ? : ? 160 pages
ISBN-10 ? : ? 0957875975
ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-0957875975
Dimensions ? : ? 10.17 x 0.72 x 11.67 inches