LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE, GERMAN PAVILION, BARCELONA, 1929Rebuilding: ignasi de solŕ morales and others, 1986
"The walls come first." J. Ravetlat, 1986
"All in all it’s just another brick in the wall." Pink Floyd, 1979
"en Mies un plano es siempre una ‘superficie de tres dimensiones’ (…) en su profundidad virtual." J. Quetglas, 2001
"riducendo masse e volumi a superfici e linee, o meglio a piani indipendenti, giustapposti e intersecantesi, ma sempre in dissonanza tra loro, onde inverare una fruizione spazio-temporale in un'ininterrotta, 'filmata' sequenza di visioni equivalenti." T. Van Doesburg ripreso da B. Zevi, 1974
"I want things to be simple (…) I like simplicity, probably because I like clarity." L. Mies van der Rohe, 1966
"Form is not a goal, but the result of our work." L. Mies van der Rohe, 1923
"Create forms out of nature of the task with the means of the time." L. Mies van der Rohe, 1923
"the point of view is everywhere (…) not tied to time and space (according to the Theory of Relativity)." P. Mondrian, 1922
"The Barcelona Pavillon remains the paradigmatic example of reductivism of Mies." D. Hoffman, 1994
"El Pabellón Alemán – Palacio de los Reflejos – es la veradera y autentica cátedra del cubismo." J. Quetglas, 2001
"materialization of a local fragment of a universal grid." S. Allen, 1993
"It is here that we must look to observe how the limit-horizon is approached and possibly inhabited." D. Hoffman, 1994
"space of nature do not exists, ground and sky, here and unlimited only." P. Mondrian, 1922
"As if the observer had become an element of the spatial construction of building itself (…) Mies transformed the frame into a reflexive architectural element and instrument for perception and for exploring the realm between subjectivity and objectivity." F. Neumeyer, 1994
"Based on horizontal axis, placed near the height of the human point of view, “the plane of symmetry is almost impossible to escape. The eyes area delivered into it by virtue of normal ambulant posture, and so the retinal image of lower and upper halves are rendered equal." R. Evans, 1990
"Walls are not optical barriers, but optical intensifiers." B. Columina, 2008
"Mies’s glass curtain wall, alternately transparent, reflective, or refractive – depending on light conditions and viewing positions – absorbs, mirrors, or distort the immediate, constantly changing images of city life." K.M. Hays, 1994
"what was just now the light side can become at the next moment shadow-side" A. Riegl, 1988
"Since this figure/ground fluctuation varies with the stance of the viewer, one might argue that the object, now fully dependent upon its perceiver, has become entirely subjectivized." R. Krauss, 1994
"«Who are you? » asked Zarathustra vehemently, «what do you here? And why call you yourself my shadow? you are not pleasing to me. (…) A wanderer am I, who have walked long at your heels; everything takes from me, nothing gives (…) I become thin - I am almost equal to a shadow.»" F.W. Nietzsche, 1885
"They lived in reflections and in reflections of the reflections." R. Eames, 1977
"There are meetings in Barcelona between appearance and reality, between wonder and curiosity, between theory and experimentation, between here and somewhere else, between now and ever, between the individual and himself." N. Ventura, 2013
"Indoors and outdoors are no longer easily defined; they flow into each other." P. Johnson, 1978
