On a non-descript dirt plain below the majestic neo-classical Museum of Catalan Art on Montjuic, Spanish architects have recreated a seminal Modernist work originally built here 80 years ago. It is the Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition. Structurally expressive, free from ornament and blurring the lines between outside and in, the building in its brief, one year life manifested the tenets of Modernism to the rest of the world.
Mies' ubiquitous Barcelona Chair.
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