The Barcelona Pavillion was designed by Mies Van De Rohe was displayed in the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition and it was a lens to the world of where modern architecture is going which was eventually the hegemony of the international style movement. It was originally named the German pavillion as it Mies was commissioned by Germany for the exposition and it represented the state of Germany to the world, showing the world their progressive and modern culture that is rooted in their history.
The buildings designed is based of off Mies’s formulaic grid system which he developed as the patterning first the pavers and is a framework for how the wall system functions. The cyclical process of the pavilion creates a process of discovery and rediscovery and always offering of new perspectives of the pavilion.
