Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture - Irenee Scalbert women Mies van der Rohe

Mies van der Rohe

locals rediscover and reckon with their city's weighty past

where he finds himself in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and the ghost-haunted country of his imagination

Like a painter or sculptor

He captures the overgrown paths that he walks to take him to the house

Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture - Irenee Scalbert women Mies van der RoheTotems brings together ten texts by the French British architectural historian and critic Irne Scalbert. Written between 2001 and 2025, they are an expression of his relentless critical engagement with architecture and its cultural contexts. The essays, which vary in length and style from concise observations to detailed analyses trace the development of his thinking as a critic, teacher and participant in the architectural discourse. Organised