Includes bibliographical references (page 471) and index.

Youth in imperial Germany: 1886-1905 -- Apprenticeship, marriage, and World War: 1905-18 -- Europe out of the ashes: 1918-26 -- Weimar at high tide: 1926-30 -- Political crises and the end of the Bauhaus: 1930-36 -- America beckons: 1936-38 -- Architect and educator: 1938-46 -- A new architectural language: 1946-53 -- The 1940s -- The Farnsworth saga: 1946-55 -- American apogee: residential work 1950-59 -- American apogee: commercial and institutional work: 1950-59 -- Worldwide practice: the 1960s -- Was less less? 1959-69 -- Recessional: 1962-69 -- Appendix A: protégés -- Appendix B: Mies's career, in publications and exhibitions.