A history of the modern architectural manifesto with a focus on Mies van der Rohe. The history of the avantgarde in art architecture literature cant be separated from the history of its engagement with mass media. It is not just that the avantgarde used media to publicize its work the work did not exist before its publication. In architecture Adolf Loos Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe came to be known through their influential writings and manifestos published in newspapers journals and lit