The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe: One Hundred Texts since 1929

Dietrich Neumann

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The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe

One Hundred Texts since 1929

Dietrich Neumann

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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A history of the building's reception

While Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion at the International Exposition in Barcelona in 1929 went unnoticed by most of the visitors to the fairgrounds, contemporary critics enthusiastically hailed it as the most convincing statement of the Modern Age.

This book presents 100 selected texts about this much discussed building, written then and now: from the opening speech by the Spanish king, to newspaper articles and private letters, voices of contemporary architects, architecture critics and historians, and even a text by artist Ai Weiwei, who created an installation in the outdoor area of the pavilion in 2010.

Thus the history of this building’s reception depicts a dazzling picture and inconceivable breadth, including statements by such eminent authors as Frank Lloyd Wright, Leonardo Benevolo, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman.

90 years of 100 texts and voices about the Barcelona Pavilion

The history of the building’s reception as a supplement to An Accidental Masterpiece by the same author

Author / Editor information

Dietrich Neumann

Professor of History of Modern Architecture and Director of Urban Studies, Brown University, Providence, USA

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
1929 Georg von Schnitzler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	36
1929 König Alfonso XIII Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	40
1929 Paul Joseph Cremers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
1929 Anonymous (Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	44
1929 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	50
1929 Heinrich Simon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	52
1929 Eduard Foertsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	56
1929 Josep Maria de Sagarra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
1929 Lenore Kühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	60
1929 L. S. M. (Lilly von Schnitzler) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
1929 Justus Bier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	66
1929 Walther Genzmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	72
1929 Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	78
1929 Alfredo Baeschlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
1929 Helen Appleton Read Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
1929 Edmundo T. Calcaño Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
1929 Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
1929 Liesel Elsaesser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
1929 Leberecht Migge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
1929 Hans Bernoulli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
1929 Arne Laurin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
1929 Richard von Kühlmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
1930 Gustav Edmund Pazaurek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	102
1930 Francisco Marroquín Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	104
1930 Ángel Marsà and LuÍs Marsillach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
1930 Eliseo Sanz Balza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
1930 Anonymous (The Spectator) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
1930 Gustav Adolf Platz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	114
1930 Marcello Piacentini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
1930 Walter Riezler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
1931 Carlo Enrico Rava Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
1932 Raymond McGrath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	124
1932 Guido Harbers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
1932 Frank Lloyd Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
1932 Philip C. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	130
1936 George Howe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	132
1940 Elizabeth Mock and J. M. Richards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
1947 Philip C. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	138
1947 Frank Lloyd Wright und Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	140
1947 Bruno Zevi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	142
1956 Ludwig Hilberseimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	144
1957 Ulrich Conrads Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	146
1957 Nikolaus Pevsner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	148
1958 Oriol Bohigas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
1958 Henry-Russell Hitchcock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
1960 Arthur Drexler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
1960 Peter Blake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	160
1960 Leonardo Benevolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
1960 Reyner Banham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	168
1961 Vincent Scully Jr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	172
1961 James Marston Fitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	174
1966 Robert Venturi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
1968 Bodo Rasch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	180
1969 Giovanni Klaus Koenig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	182
1970 Sergius Ruegenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	184
1972 William H. Jordy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
1975 Norbert Huse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
1976 Manfredo Tafuri and Francesco dal Co Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
1977 Rudolf Arnheim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
1979 Ludwig Glaeser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
1980 Kenneth Frampton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
1980 Manfredo Tafuri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
1980 Josep Quetglas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	206
1981 Wolf Tegethoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	208
1982 Michael Graves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
1983 Juan Navarro Baldeweg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
1984 K. Michael Hays Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	218
1985 Geoffrey Broadbent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
1985 Franz Schulze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	224
1985 David Spaeth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
1985 Roberto Segre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
1985 Alison und Peter Smithson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	236
1986 Peter Smithson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	240
1986 Josep Quetglas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
1986 Rem Koolhaas/OMA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	244
1986 Sergius Ruegenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	248
1984/86 Jorge Nudelman and Jordi Roig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	250
1986 Peter Eisenman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
1986 Kenneth Frampton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	264
1986 Fritz Neumeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	268
1988 Winfried Nerdinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
1986 Paul Rudolph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
1987 Paul Goldberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	278
1987 Hubert Damisch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
1988 Josep Quetglas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	284
1988 Massimo Cacciari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
1990 Robin Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
1990 Caroline Constant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	292
1993 Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Christian Cirici and Fernando Ramos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	296
1994 Rosalind Krauss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	298
1997 Toyo Ito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	300
2001 George Dodds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
2001 Detlef Mertins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
2001 Barry Bergdoll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	310
2002 Rem Koolhaas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	314
2003 Hajime Yatsuka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	316
2008 Fumihiko Maki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	320
2010 Ai Weiwei Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	322
2010 Marco de Michelis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	324
2014 Claire Zimmerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	326
2014 Detlef Mertins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	328
2018 Lance Hosey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	332
Endnotes Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	336

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

December 7, 2020

eBook ISBN:

9783035619935

Hardcover published on:

December 7, 2020

Hardcover ISBN:

9783035619850

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

352

Illustrations:

25

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035619935

eBook ISBN: 9783035619935

Hardcover ISBN: 9783035619850

Keywords for this book

Bauhaus; minimalism; modernism; modern architecture; contemporary architect; modern age; Ai Weiwei; Frank Lloyd Wright; Leonardo Benevolo; Rem Koolhaas; Peter Eisenman

Audience(s) for this book

• Architekten • Kunsthistoriker • Studenten

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The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe

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