"London is famous for Big Ben; Paris for the Eiffel Tower; Rome for the Colosseum. Barcelona, on the other hand, is not identified by one or two famous buildings as these other Eurpean cities, but rather by an entire movement of turn-of-the-century architecture inown simply as '…
Mies van der Rohe's German Pavilion in Barcelona, designed for the 1929 International Exhibition.
'Building Desire' considers the Barcelona Pavilion, completed in 1986, and its forerunner, the German Pavilion of 1929, and looks at the work of Mies van der Rohe. It examines in detail the role of photography in architecture and its continuing influence.
"In 1986, a new Barcelona Pavilion was built on the site of the 1929 German Pavilion. That decade also marked the 150th anniversary of photography and the centenary of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). Since then, much has been published about all three, jointly and singly, …
