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Stuart Jacome Arch 211- M11 Prof. Khorsandi Blog Post Barcelona Pavilion The Barcelona Pavilion commonly referred to as the German Pavilion is located in Barcelona, Spain. The pavilion was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1928-29 for the 1929 Barcelona international exhibition. The purpose of the pavilion was to accommodate the King Alphonso XII of Spain as well as other German authorities. The structure was also used for the opening of the German exhibition. This building is a great example of modernist twentieth- century architecture. The pavilion consists of an open-plan space, exact proportions, minimalist design, and symmetry. The original concept of this building is to represent a new Germany. Georg von Schnitzler who commissioned the building said it should give "voice to the spirit of a new era". The concept was executed through a “Free plan” and “Floating room”. Free plan insisted that there should not be any load-bearing walls dividing the inter...

The House by the Beach There is a tragedy that comes with E-1027, from the years that it took to built, to its slow deterioration from neglect and utter forgetness. House E-1027 was design, and constructed [with the help of a small local crew workers] by Eileen Gray in 1929, a time where been a women architect yet alone one untrained in the field of architecture was a pejorative term.  Yet again Gray in the process of building a summer getaway for her and her current lover (Jean Badovici) created one of the most important structures of architecture in the early 20th century. Locate in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin along the Côte d’Azur, Gray built an elegant minimalist villa on the shores of the Mediterranean. The only way to get to it been through lemon trees and banana palms, making it inaccessible by car. There on hillside you would see an all-white pastoral retreat "bathed in sunlight, freshened by breezes, and outfitted with sleek yet practical furnishings of leisur...