Download or read book New National Gallery, Berlin written by Maritz Vandenberg and published by Phaidon Incorporated Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mies van der Rohe envisaged a glass and steel temple for the New National Gallery of Art, Berlin - a sort of shrine to German art. The commission was one which touched the architect deeply, coming as it did after a 60-year career; it was the last building completed in Mies's lifetime and the culmination of his life's work and aesthetic ideas.