Well, if you wonder why my first blog is late, it is because I waste time on things like these pictures. I will make up by talking about architecture that the class has not visited yet. I speak of the Barcelona Pavilion by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. One of the mega monuments of modernism.
One can learn almost everything you need to know about modernism from this building. Including the way in which Mies expresses the columns, the free plan, and the use of the materials of steel and glass. The difference in this piece is Mies' exploration and combination of more materiality such as the stone flooring instead of the previous concrete dominance.I love the way this city has so many things that you can run across something so important and hardly realize it. I can't wait to go back and get a chance to go inside and discover more.
A side note: This may deteriorate from my comment but being at the pavilion felt like a fake. I guess knowing that they destroyed it and rebuilt it has something to do with it.
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