Glass Pavilion, 1914, Bruno Taut
Kisairis Espinal Glass Pavilion The Glass is located at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition designed by Bruno Taut in 1914. This is a prismatic glass dome structure constructed using concrete and glass. The façade has colored glass plates that act as mirrors and reflect everything around it. The architect Bruno describes his project as a “little temple of beauty” the reason he refers to it like because it has changed color through time, it started with a dark blue to rose to moss green and golden yellow. This is Taut best known architectural achievement know throughout his whole career, he designed this for an exhibition in 1914 for the industry association. The whole purpose of this element was to show that throughout architecture the using of glass can be explored in many different ways, he also related it to human emotion of a spiritual utopia. This pavilion was shaped like a pineapple with...