Barcelona Pavilion
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Av. Marquès de Comillas
Montjuïc 08038
Barcelona
Spain
coordinates:
41.3705444 2.1499944
Building names(s): Barcelona Pavilion
Architect/Designer: Mies van der Rohe
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Completion date: 1929 [reconstructed 1986]
Function: Expo pavilion
NOTE: This is the replica of the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. It is has been built on the same site the building originally stood.
website: www.miesbcn.com
Opening hours: 10am – 8pm every day (including holidays).
Guided visits: Wednesdays & Fridays from 17:00 h to 19:00 h guided visits in english, catalan and spanish.
Costs: General public 4,5 euros
getting there:
Metro: Line 1 & 3 – Espanya Station
bus: to Placa d’Espanya or Bus 13/61 stop right outside
Last update: 1 November, 2011 | Suggested By LT
It’s the 80th anniversary of the Barcelona Pavilion (the temporary German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exhibition in Barcelona), considered by many as a ‘masterwork of the modernist movement’. Following the 1929 Exhibition, the original was dismantled and lost, fortunately, you can still check out this iconic building which has been reconstructed in the 1980s using the original plans.
SANAA INSTALLATION at the Barcelona Pavilion. from November 26 2008 – January 18 2009. The prestigious Japanese SANAA architecture studio, founded and run by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, has been selected by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation to create an installation for the Barcelona Pavilion in the winter of 2008-2009.
The Barcelona Pavilion, a work emblematic of the Modern Movement, has been exhaustively studied and interpreted as well as having inspired the oeuvre of several generations of architects. It was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) as the German national pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. Built from glass, travertine and different kinds of marble, the Pavilion was conceived to accommodate the official reception presided over by King Alphonso XIII of Spain along with the German authorities.
After the closure of the Exhibition, the Pavilion was disassembled in 1930. As time went by, it became a key point of reference not only in Mies van der Rohe’s own career but also in twentieth-century architecture as a whole. Given the significance and reputation of the Pavilion, thoughts turned towards its possible reconstruction.
In 1980 Oriol Bohigas, as head of the Urban Planning Department at the Barcelona City Council, set the project in motion, designating architects Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Cristian Cirici and Fernando Ramos to research, design and supervise the reconstruction of the Pavilion.
Work began in 1983 and the new building was opened on its original site in 1986.