Selected Bibliography
BLAKE, Peter

1960 Mies van der Rohe: Architecture and Structure Penguin Books Ltd, UK.

BONTA, Juan Pablo

1979 Architecture and its Interpretation Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd. London

CACCIARI, Massimo

1980 "Eupalinos or Architecture" in Oppositions 21 MIT Press, New York

The silence of the pavilion opposed to the nostalgiac desire for the singing architecture of the past. A state of non-dwelling becomes a positive condition of the subject, no longer tied to the geviert revels in a pseudo-Nietzschean freespace...

CONSTANT, Caroline

1990 "The Barcelona Pavilion as Landscape Garden: Modernity and the Picturesque" pp.46-54 in AA Files 20

An analysis of the Barcelona Pavilion (in the light of its reconstruction in 1986) as a picturesque landscape.

The picteresque is traditionally associated with the emotive, the eclectic, the not so rational, while Mies would have sited his building in the rational. Looking at the building as part of the picteresque landscape tradition is used as a means of examining the role of the picteresque in Modernism itself.

picturesque -elusive, discrepencies arise due to its origins. First used by Alexander Pope in descriptions of classic landscapes.

Constant exposes an array of picteresque devices used by Mies (whether conciously or unconciously is not decided) in the construction of the pavilion.

The pavilion is arranged as a series of discoveries, a coreographed opening up and revellation of vistas and depths.

The term pavilion itself appears in the 17th century as a term associated with garden structures for temporary shelter.

EVANS, Robin

1990 "Mies van der Rohe's Paradoxical Symmetries" pp.56-68 in AA Files 19

Finding the symmetrical in the assymmetry of the Pavilion. A good essay that investigates the implications of Bonta's work (ibid). Questions the siting of this work in the realm of rational architecture.

QUETGLAS, José

1988 "Fear of Glass: The Barcelona Pavilion" pp.122-151 in ARCHITECTUREPRODUCTION (Revisions 2) edited by Beatriz Colomina, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.

The Barcelona Pavilion as a Doric Temple, a stage set.

CARR, Matiu

1994-1997 "Other Pavilions" in The Barcelona Pavilion http://www.appfa.auckland.ac.nz/virtualtour/barcelona/others.html

A collection of internet based resources with information relating to the Barcelona Pavilion.


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