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by Remei Capdevila-Werning (Author), Beatriz Colomina (Author), Juan José Lahuerta (Author)
The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic.
Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the Exposition. By examining that work in addition to the Pavilion itself, the contributors present a far-reaching reinterpretation of the whole. They also explore connections with the mass media, highlight the work's antecedents and meaning in the history of architecture, and analyze the current pavilion, a reconstruction of the original built in 1986. No other critical study offers a comparable overview of Mies's work in Barcelona.Author Biography
Remei Capdevila-Werning is a research associate at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Beatriz Colomina is professor of history and theory of architecture and director of the media and modernity program. Juan José Lahuerta is professor of art and architecture history at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB-UPC) and director of the Gaudí Chair at ETSAB-UPC. Laura Martínez de Guereñu is professor and coordinator of the program of lectures at the iE School of Architecture, Madrid-Segovia. Dietrich Neumann is professor of the history of art and architecture at Brown University. Fritz Neumeyer is emeritus professor of architectural theory at the Technische Universität, Berlin. Spyros Papapetros is associate professor of history and theory of architecture at Princeton University. Lutz Robbers is an architectural theorist at Bauhaus Universität, Weimar. Carmen Rodríguez Pedret is associate professor in the Department of Theory and History of Architecture and Communication Techniques at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona.
