Max Bill : A Selective Bibliography Compiled by Aileen Smith, May 2010 This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to Max Bill. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark. Books (Alphabetically by title) Form: a balance sheet of mid-twentieth-century trends in design / Max Bill Basel: V. Karl Werner, 1952 AA SHELFMARK: 745/749 BIL Form, function, beauty = Gestalt / Max Bill (AA Words) Publications, Spring 2010 ISBN 9781902902852 AA SHELFMARK: ON ORDER London: AA Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Max Bill Milan: Il Balcone, 1955 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MIE BIL (REF-LO) Max Bill / Margit Staber London: Methuen, 1964 AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(494):92B STA (STORE) Max Bill: arquitecto = architect / guest editor Karin Gimmi Gili, 2004 ISBN 8425219566 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(494):92BIL GIM Barcelona: Gustavo Max Bill: hfg Um; drawing and redrawing : atelierwohnungen, studentenwohnturm / Thomas Reinke London: Marmalade Publications, 2006 ISBN 0954659716 AA SHELFMARK: 72:37(43U) REI Max Bill / Georges Vantongerloo: a working friendship, fifty years of sculpture, painting and drawing / Exhibition held at the Annely Juda Fine Art Gallery London: Annely Juda Fine Art, 1996 AA SHELFMARK: 73+75 ANN Max Bill: no beginning, no end: a retrospective marking the centenary of the artist, designer, architect, typographer and theoretician / Museum Marta Herford Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008 ISBN 9783858812148 AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(494):92BIL HER Robert Maillart / Max Bill Zurich: Verlag fur Architektur, 1949 AA SHELFMARK: 624.21(494):92M BIL (STORE)
Robert Maillart: bridges and construction / Max Bill London: Pall Mall, 1969 AA SHELFMARK: 624.21(494):92M BIL (STORE) Structure in art and science / Gyorgy Kepes London: Studio Vista, 1965 (includes contributions by Max Bill) AA SHELFMARK: 7.01+5 KEP Typografie, reklame, buchgestaltung = Typography, advertising, book design / Max Bill Zurich: Verlag Niggli, 1999 ISBN 3721203410 AA SHELFMARK: 74/76(44):92BIL BIL Wiederaufbau: Dokumente uber Zerstorungen Planungen Konstruktionen / Max Bill Zurich: Erlenbach, 1945 AA SHELFMARK: 711.4:69.002.2 BIL Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month) 2009 Projecting the infinite: Miralles, Max Bill, Klee /article by Montserrat Bigas Vidal, Luis Bravo Farre and Gustavo Conte-Pomi in EGA: revista de expression grafica arquitectonica no.14 2009 / p.146-157, p.289-293 (text in Spanish+English (p.289-293) 2008 Max Bill (major retrospective at the Bauhaus design museum in Berlin) in Domus no.916 July/August 2008 / p.10 (text in Italian+English) Maximal und minimal [Maximum and minimal]: two exhibitions in Winterhur celebrating Max Bill s centenary / article by Christoph Bignens in Werk Bauen & Wohnen vol.95/62 no.4 April 2008 / p.61-62 (text in German) 100 th anniversary of Max Bill s birthday, two retrospectives in Winterthur / article by Hubertus Adam in Bauwelt vol.99 no.10 March 7, 2008 / p.2-3 (text in German) Belleza logica: Max Bill, 1908-1994 [Beautiful logic: Max Bill, 1908-1994] / article Francisco de Gracia in Arquitectura Viva no.120 2008 / p.78-79 (text in Spanish)
2007 Haerle Hubacher Architeckten: Max Bill Platz in Archithese, 37 (1) January-February 2007 / text in German Virtuelle Kuben und echtes Leben: Max-Bill-Platz in Zurich Neu-Oerlikon; Architecten, Haerle Hubacher, atelier ww / article by Judit Solt in DB Deutsche Bauzeitung, 141 (8) 2007 / p.26-32 (text in German) 2006 Max Bill: una retrospectiva = Max Bill: a retrospective [exhibition review] / article by Beppe Finessi in Abitare (458) February 2006 / p.99-100 (text in Italian+English) 2005 Max Bill architect [ed by] Karin Gimmi [book review] / article by Johan Janssen in Arkitektur, 105 (7) November 2005 / p.78- (text in Swedish) 2004 Max Bill, arquitecto = Marx Bill, architect / article by Stanislaus von Moos and others in 2G: revista internacional de arquitectura = international architecture review no.29-30 / whole issue (text in Spanish+ English) 2002 Max Bill: simplicity and ordinariness / article by Edwin Heathcote in Architectural Design, 72 (4) July 2002 / p.17-21 2001 Un mundo continuo [Max Bill] / article by Alejandro Crispiani Enriquez in A R Q (49) December 2001 / p.57-59 (text in Spanish, English abstract)
1999 La Hochschule fur Gestaltung, (Ecole superieure de Design), Ulm, 1955, Max Bill architecte / article by Marc Emery in Architecture d Aujourd hui (321) March 1999 / p.110-115 (text in French+English) Max Bill: l arte della stampa [Max Bill: typography] / article by Gerd Fleischmann in Domus no.811 January 1999 / p.106-113 (text in Italian+English) 1997 Baracke als Bild / article by Rahel Hartmann (Haus Villiger in Bremgarten, Switzerland, 1943; Architect: Max Bill) in Werk: Bauen & Wohnen (6) June 1997 / p.4-7 (text in German) 1996 Max Bill geht ans Herz: der Schweier Beitrag zur Triennale di Milano von 1936 / article by Karin Gimmi in Archithese, 26 (3) May/June 1996 / p.48-53 (text in German) Minimal Tradition ; Max Bill in Mailand [exhibition review] in Archithese, 26 (2) March/April 1996 / p.62 (text in German) 1995 Un ricordo di Max Bill = A memory of Max Bill / article by Stanislaus von Moos in Domus (770) April 1995 / p.116-118 (text in Italian+English) Max Bill, un grande artista moderno = Max Bill, a great artist of the modern [obituary] / article by Vittorio Gregotti in Casabella, 59 (621) March 1995 / p.2-3, 6 (text in Italian+English) De era Max Bill (1908-1994) = The Max Bill era (1908-1994) [obituary] / article by Stanislaus von Moos in Archis (3) March 1995 / p.4-6 (text in Dutch+English)
Max Bill [obituary] / article by Philippe Rahm in Architecture d Aujourd hui (297) February 1995 / p.21 French) (text in L eredita di Max Bill [obituary] / article by Alberto Manfredini in Parametro (206) January/February 1995 / p.2-3 (text in Italian) Max Bill (1908-1994) / article by Petra Hagen-Hodgson in Deutsche Bauzeitung vol.129 no.1 January 1995 / p.10 (text in German Beauty as function: on Max Bill / article by Stanislaus von Moos (design work, 1920s-1950s) in Rassegna, 17 (62) 1995 / p.68-72 1994 Max Bill 1908-1994 [obituary] / article by Dorothea Muller in Bauwelt, 85 (48) December 27, 1994 / p.2652 (text in German) Obituary: Max Bill in Architects Journal, 200 (24) December 21, 1994 / p.14 1993 Max Bill: the early years, an interview / article by Angela Thomas (overview of his career, written by his wife) in Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (19) 1993 / p.99-119 1989 Prinzip der Ordnung: Max Bill und sein Haus im Zumikon / article by Lore Kelly in D B Deutsche Bauzeitung, 123 January 1989 / p.94-96 (text in German) 1987 Max Bill: Perpetuating the Bauhaus ideal / article by Michael Peppiat in Architectural Digest, 44 August 1987 / p.48
1984 Squares, artists and monuments: two fountains by Jean Tinguely and a sculpture by Max Bill / article by Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus in Werk, Bauen und Wohnen vol.71/38 no.4 April 1984 / p.38-43 (text in German, English summary) 1982 Il teatro dell Expo (Theater built as part of an exposition in Vidy area of Switzerland in 1964; architect: Max Bill in Abitare no.206 July/August 1982 / p.52-53 (text in Italian+English) 1976 Max Bill / article by Pierre Joly in Oeil no.254 September 1976 / p.42-45 (text in French) Max Bill.architecture and art: special issue / article by Max Bill in Du vol.36 no.6 (424) June 1976 / p. 10-69 (text in German, summary in English) 1974 On Max Bill: a review of the Albright-Knox exhibition catalog / article by Kenneth Frampton in Oppositions (4) October 1974 / p.154-157 Apropos Ulm: curriculum and critical theory / article by Kenneth Frampton in Oppositions (3) May 1974 / p.17-36 1973 Radio studio, Zurich extensions; architect: Max Bill in Werk vol.60 no.10 October 1973 / p.1223-1228 (text in German/French/English) Max Bill: special issue in Nueva Forma no.92 September 1973 (text in Spanish)
1971 Zurigo: il giardino e la casa di Max Bill in Domus (494) January 1971 / p.16-21 (text in Italian) 1967 The education of the architect (includes essay by Max Bill) in U I A International Architect (44) April 1967 / p.23-31 1964 Art of living Pavilion, Swiss National Exhibition, Lausanne 1964 in Architectural Record, 34 December 1964 / p.614-619 Max Bill: artist and architect / article by Anna Bacchi and Giorgio Bacchi in Arts & Architecture, 81 November 1964 / p.20-23 Expo 1964: Vorschau auf die Expo 1964: Sektor 2b Bildenund Gestalten; Max Bill, architect in Werk, 51 February 1964 / whole issue on Expo 1964 (text in German) 1963 Cultural Centre for the Swiss National Exhibition, Lausanne; Architect: Max Bill in Architectural Design, 33 November 1963 / p.526-529 1962 Max Bill and his design conception / article by M Staber in Zodiac no.9 1962 / p.60-95 (text in Italian) La scuola di Ulm; Architect: Max Bill / article by Margit Staber in Casabella Continuita (259) January 1962 / p.2-27 (text in Italian) 1961 Max Bill und die Ulmweltgestaltung / article by Margit Staber in Zodiac no.9 1961 / p.[60]-95 (text in German)
1959 Hochschule fur Gestaltung Ulm; Architect: Max Bill in Bauen und Wohnen (11) November 1959 / p.400-405 (text in German) Complessita di Max Bill / article by Vittorio Gregotti in Casabella Continuita (228) June 1959 / p.32-39 (text in Italian) 1957 Max Bill und die Synthese / article by Will Grohmann in Werk, 44 July 1957 / p.247-249 (text in German) 1956 La nuova Bauhaus di Max Bill a Ulm sul Danubio in Architecttura: Cronache e Storia, 1 (5) January/February 1956 / p.737-738 (text in Italian) 1955 Small pavilion for the city of Ulm, Landesausstellung Baden Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, July-October 1955; Architect: Max Bill in Werk, September 1955 / p.287-288 (text in German) 1953 Max Bill / article by Ernesto Nathan Rogers in Magazine of Art, 46 May 1953 / p.226-230 1952 Furniture; designed by Max Bill for mass production in Domus no.276-277 1952 / p. 44-45 (text in Italian) Studies for housing in warm climates; Architects: Max Bill and A Beer in Bauen & Wohnen no.2 1952 / p.85-86 (text in German)
1949 Mathematical considerations in contemporary art: critical analysis / article by Max Bill in Werk no.3 1949 / p.86-91 (text in German) 1948 Max Bills Kontinuitat / article by Georg Schmidt in Werk, 35 March 1948 / p.76-80 (text in German) 1947 Continuita di Max Bill / article by Hans Kaiser in Domus (223-225) October-December 1947 / p.30-33 (text in Italian) 1946 Suisse cite Bocksriet a Schaffhouse in Architecture d Aujourd hui, 16 (4) January 1946 / p.87-88 (text in French) Website www.maxbillfilm.ch Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian May 2010