Work
Barcelona Pavilion (German Pavilion)
Explore in the Atlas →Mies and Reich's flowing free-plan pavilion of marble, onyx and glass—a national representation that distilled 'less is more'; demolished 1930, reconstructed 1986.
Ritual Ephemerality Power
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Barcelona, Spain
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- exemplifies Modernism
Referenced by
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe authored
- Lilly Reich authored
Sources
- Josep Quetglas. Fear of Glass: Mies van der Rohe's Pavilion in Barcelona. Birkhäuser, 2001.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Barcelona Pavilion (German Pavilion)." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/barcelona-pavilion/. Accessed July 17, 2026.