Barcelona Pavillion by Mies Van der Rohe

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The Barcelona Pavilion , designed by Mies van der Rohe , was the building of representing Germany at the Barcelona International Exposition held in 1929. Conceived as representative space to accommodate the official reception presided over by King Alfonso XIII and the German authorities, in January the building was meant to symbolize the progressive and democratic character of the new Weimar Republic and its recovery after the First World War . This building is one of the milestones in the history of modern architecture, being a work which embodies freedom with particularly rotund and nascent ideas of Modernism , and is considered by many authors as one of the four canonical parts of the architecture of the modern movement with the Bauhaus building of Gropius , the Villa Savoye of Le Corbusier and Cascade House of Wright . 2 The pavilion was dismantled after the exhibition in 1930 and later rebuilt in the 80's in its original location, in the present district of Montjuic , which is open to the public.