Fear of Glass
Fear of Glass: Mies van der Rohe's Pavilion in Barcelona
Josep Quetglas
Birkhäuser, January 2001
Paperback | 6-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches | 200 pages | English (translated by John Stone & Rosa Roig) | ISBN: 978-3764363390
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Barcelona at the end of the twenties: Mies van der Rohe is commissioned to design the German contributions for the 1929 International Exhibition, one of them being the German Pavilion. Today, his brief for this building reads like a manifesto of modern architecture: a contemporary building, an imposing stage, a timeless work of art -- an outstanding example of where the attempt to solve the puzzle of modern architecture took shape. Shortly before Germany embarks on a catastrophe for civilization, a German architect creates a masterpiece of the avant-garde, an icon of modern architecture.
"For me, the time I spent working in Barcelona was a shining moment in my life." -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1957
Josep Quetglas is Professor of the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and author of numerous publications on theory and criticism of Architecture.
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