Mies van der Rohe’s German Pavilion at the Barcelona
Universal Exposition of 1929, known simply as the
Barcelona Pavilion, was designed and built some twenty years
before his Farnsworth House (see pages 63–78). Though the
Farnsworth House is a significant work of architecture in the
twentieth century, the Barcelona Pavilion is even more so. It is
one of the seminal works of all time. Its power and influence
has grown rather than dissipated in the eighty years since it
was first built.