Architecture and Faux-nationalism: reflections on a remark made by the British architectural historian Gavin Stamp about the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Issue 4 (7th August 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Watson, Victoria
• Is Part Of: National identities. Volume 22:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 471
• Page End: 478
• Publication Date: 2020-08-07
• Subjects: Mies and der Rohe -- Gavin Stamp -- Mansion House Square -- The City of London; Nationalism -- Periodicals; Ethnicity -- Periodicals; 305.8005
• DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1803576
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1460-8944

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This is a short 'think-piece', it was prompted by my visit to the RIBA exhibition Mies van der Rohe & James Stirling: Circling the Square, where I came across a letter, dated 1985, from the architectural historian Gavin Stamp to Margaret Thatcher. Stamp was concerned about an architectural proposal for a site in the City of London by the Avant-garde, modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. As a long-term observer of the British reception of Mies, the contents and circumstances of the letter got me thinking.