The Curator · Marta · Barcelona
Pavelló Mies van der Rohe
This is my single-building argument for why Barcelona matters architecturally outside of Modernisme. Mies on Montjuïc. Nineteen twenty-nine. It still wins.
The 1929 German Pavilion reconstruction. The purest argument for architectural silence in the city. The reflecting pool and the onyx wall are the entire thesis.
— Marta, The Curator
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