Sobre arquitectura (en el Pabellón de Barcelona). La exposición como forma de investigación
ISSN: 1138-5596
Year of publication: 2019
Issue Title: Architecture for Museums / Arquitectura para los museos (Pedro Ignacio Alonso Editor invitado / Guest Editor)
Issue: 21
Pages: 156-167
Type: Article
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Abstract
Mies van der Rohe was thinking about architecture when in 1929 he designed the German Pavilion for the Barcelona World’s Fair, a building that set out to portray the new Weimar Republic. Without a programme as such, and with hardly any time, its ultimate purpose was to showcase itself as the culmination of a previously dormant research project studying a series of exhibition stands for German industry. It was a temporary museum for a new genre of architecture that depicted the myth of “permanent void” once it was disassembled, with fourteen images considered as examples of a new spatial arrangement. Barcelona City Council was thinking about architecture when it decided to reconstruct the Pavilion in the 1980s, while each year a call is made out to architects and artists to think about architecture by holding a series of temporary installations, highlighting the paradoxical value of the exhibited exhibitor and the (in)visible void ABOUT the key characteristics that (un)define it.
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