The Pavilion is a work created by the architect Mies Van Der Rohe at the beginning of the 20th century (1929), which was one of his initial works. It was such an influential work that it served as the foundation for Mies's career as an architect. He will reflect on those were the inspirations and ideas in its details such as structure. Why it was a successful work and why it served to shape Pabellón's career will be discussed. It is a work that went through many obstacles but did not end in the oblivion of Mies's memory.
Mies intended the Pavilion to become a symbol of the new democratic order, as a subsequent result of the First World War. That idea failed because although it was finalized, it was dismantled for raw materials by the Great Depression. However, that initial idea was what will come that was rebuilt in the 1980s, to project European economic development after World War II. The inspirations and ideas of Mies was that the structure was adaptable to the space, interconnected, a modernist aspect, interior-exterior connection that will connect it to the natural landscape, but promoting modern matter for its structural parts. Although the German Pavilion promotes the modern movement, it preserved classicist features, a sculpture that projects a nude woman covering herself with the realistic style of the classics.
It is a work that shaped Mies's career, as it promoted modern materials in the structure that were emulated in many of his later works such as onyx, steel, and travertine. The columns that are metallic with a cross-shaped design are seen in many of his individual works from his career and as inspiration to others in modern movements. However, although it is modern architecture due to the material used, it presents characteristics of the past such as the staircase being the main access area, the classic statue and its white and gray colors that give it an archaic appearance. However, the factor that made it so important in Mise's life and architectural history is its traumatic dismantling.
It is a work that went through many crises of planning, dismantling, and delay that suffered the risk of having been a story lost in Mise's memory. That architectural memory could be saved since Mise document it, allowing its reconstruction that expresses the same initial ideas of Mise in a world where it fits. Although the current reconstruction features added ideas that Mise never postulated, many of his main ideas were respected and are still credited to him. In conclusion, although it was created in Barcelona it can perfectly symbolize democratic Germany after the First World War, it was dismantled while the country fell into Nazism, and was finally restored during a period where Germany was divided into a democratic and a communist part. but that ended with the triumph of democracy after the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991.
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