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Pabellón de Barcelona / Barcelona Pavilion

Pabellón de Alemania. Exposición Internacional de Barcelona 1929

1929 -
MIES VAN DER ROHE, Ludwig

Reconstrucción 1983 - 1986

El edificio terminó de construirse en mayo de 1929 y fue demolido a principios de 1930. Tras un estudio detallado, el edificio fue edificado de nuevo entre los años 1983 y 1986.
Barcelona
España

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This work by Mies is considered by experts to be one of the most outstanding works of his professional career, projecting him towards future achievements. The objective of the project was to give a renewed image of democratic, progressive, prosperous and peaceful Germany after the defeat that occurred in World War I.

The pavilion was designed and created exclusively for ceremonial and representative events (it served as the inaugural framework for the Exhibition in whose pavilion the Kings of Spain were received), being conceived as an ephemeral architecture, with a delimited permanence time. In fact, this pavilion, built in May 1929, was demolished in the early 1930s.

“This place of oasis that invites the visitor to a brief rest between the agitation and excessive activity of the Exhibition” was subsequently evaluated, architecturally examining its characteristics (especially the exemplary realization of the free plan, and the fluid space), enhancing Importantly, its reconstruction and recovery by Spanish architects between 1983 and 1986.

The work rested as if it were a classic temple, on a travertine plinth, with two voluminous pools of water (larger exterior and smaller interior). The building was simply structured around free cruciform columns that supported the flat roof and was not intended to be a habitable space (the planes crossing without defining spaces), with a centrifugal spatial distribution.

The fluidity of these spaces, accompanied by the varied marble and glass walls that distributed the space, anticipated in a certain way “the neutral boxes” that the architect created from the 1940s onwards. Finally, the furniture designed by the same architect (Barcelona stool, table and chair), and the contrast of the building with the female sculpture placed inside, made this place a particularly attractive modern space, which fortunately can be visited again.

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