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Knock on Stone: A Brief, Informal Acoustic Experiment at the Barcelona Pavilion

The original Barcelona Pavilion is believed to be the first time that stone was “hung” in the form of thin … More

acoustics, Barcelona Pavilion, construction, Mies, pavilion, stone

Vinylizing the Barcelona Pavilion

The Barcelona Pavilion is as white as Greek yoghurt right now. All the Roman travertine, ancient green marble, green Alpine … More

Anna & Eugeni Bach, architecture, art, Barcelona Pavilion, building materials, installation, materiality, Mies

The Barcelona Pavilion as Cozy Christmas Home

Here’s yet another advertisement that features the Barcelona Pavilion. This one isn’t a print ad for a famous German brand … More

advertising, Barcelona Pavilion, luxury, Mies

Temporary Permanence

Earlier this summer, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the reconstruction of Mies van der Rohe’s German Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona … More

Barcelona Pavilion, ephemeral architecture, installation, Luis Martínez Santa-María, Mies, OMA, permanence, reconstruction

Architecture and Status-Anxiety

A recent advertisement in El País Ever wondered why luxury products are advertised so heavily in mass-circulation media, even though … More

advertising, architecture, Barcelona Pavilion, status

Architourism

Tourists at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona Tourism is the only ‘industry’ in Spain that is not … More

Barcelona Pavilion, capitalism, Gaudí, Mies, tourism

Strike a Pose: Assisted Living Facility near Lisbon by Aires Mateus Architects

Photography: Fernando Guerra Photography: Fernando Guerra [Originally published in Mark Magazine #32] What is it that makes these architectural images … More

Aires Mateus, Assisted living facility, Barcelona Pavilion, countryside, Lisbon, Mark Magazine, photography, Portugal, small town

Morning Delivery

The maintenance of buildings is somewhat of a taboo subject in architectural discourse, which actually says a great deal about … More

Barcelona Pavilion, building maintenance, Mies, pavilion, social class

Lighten-Up in the Mies Pavilion

  The installation by SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) at Barcelona’s Mies van der Rohe Pavilion is simple, subtle, … More

Barcelona Pavilion, installation, Mies, monument, pavilion, popular culture, SANAA

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Criticalista collects Rafael Gomez-Moriana's writings on architecture and the built environment. All photographs by the author unless indicated otherwise.

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