"Chaos and Classicism" at the Guggenheim

Chaos and Classicism
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The Barcelona Pavilion, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1928
The plunging, clean-lined pavilion that Mies designed to represent Germany at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1929 makes plain the debt that the pioneers of Modernist architecture had to Greek sources, like the classical podium.

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