Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Villa Wolf in Gubin History and Reconstruction

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Dietrich Neumann (*1956) is Professor of Modern Architectural History at Brown University in Providence, USA, and Director of the John Nicholas Brown Centre for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. He was trained as an architect and historian in Munich and London (AA) and held visiting professorships at Yale University and the University of Porto. He has worked on building types and materials, film sets and architectural illumination, as well as on Richard Neutra and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He was a fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the American Academies in Berlin and Rome, and has received several awards for his research from the Society of Architectural Historians. He was President of the society from 2008 to 2010 and was elected a fellow in 2019. He is a member of the Architecture and Design Committee at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and president of Docomomo New England.