Fear of Glass--Mies van der Rohe's Pavilion in Barcelona

by Josep Quetglas, R. Moneo (Foreword), R. Daza (Illustrator)

Barcelona, the late 1920s - Mies van der Rohe is commissioned to design the German contributions for the 1929 International Exhibition, including the German Pavilion. Today his brief for this building reads like a modernist a contemporary building, an imposing stage, a timeless work of art, a masterpiece of the avant-garde and an icon of modern architecture. It has been called a Palace of Reflections, with straight lines, bare walls and large planes criss-crossed by rays of light.

Genres: Architecture

200 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

Reviews

[Patrick\ · Rating 4 out of 5]

To architects everywhere at the time an earth-shaking apparition. Ultimate simplicity, beautiful materials, planes and textures and light. Decoration abolished. A new way of doing things brought into reality from vann der Rohe, the master of joints an of minimalist detail. This structure is still more modern than any building around today.