Pavelló Mies van der Rohe (monument)
You’re at the Pavelló Mies van der Rohe—Barcelona’s German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition, originally commissioned for the 1928 season after Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s success with the 1927 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Stuttgart. The design was created with Lilly Reich, and it was built in a rationalist, single-breath language of space: a “free plan” supported by what the project called a “floating roof.” The pavilion was tied directly to a political idea promoted for Weimar Germany—new, democratic, culturally progressive, and pacifist—and the Commissioner, Georg von Schnitzler, wanted it to give “voice to the spirit of a new era.” This is also a building with a break in its own life. …
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