Presentation by Octavi Martí.

This 2020 the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion is activated more than ever as a public platform to dissolve the boundaries between architectural research and the arts, promoting the dissemination of architecture in collaboration with an extensive and varied network of entities and people.

The exhibition shows the result of the residence of the artist Ben Weir in Casa Vilaró (Barcelona) developed during the month of September 2019.

The idea of the occupation of the Barcelona Pavilion with a work that the history of architecture has unfairly set aside –even we may say forgotten– has been fundamental for the development of the project of the Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture. The project was born from a clear motivation, which is to reveal the 16.000 square meters of interiors that Lilly Reich designed for the Noucentista Palaces of the 1929 International Exhibition of Barcelona.

Second call for the Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture, which supports the study, dissemination and visibility of contributions in the field of architecture that have been unduly relegated or neglected for discriminatory reasons.

Within the framework of the Barcelona Obertura Spring Festival and in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion joins the Beethoven Marathon and hosts the concert of pianist Noelia Rodiles who will perform one of the German composer’s pieces.

On 25th March the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion hosts the presentation of the British architect of Ghanaian origin Elsie Owusu who has extensive experience in urban planning, transport and infrastructure in Lagos, Nigeria, Accra and Ghana within the framework of the Foros UIC which under the title “Co-benefits” aims to reflect on the links and processes of cultural interaction between contemporary architecture and other artistic manifestations.

Presentation of the publication on the artistic intervention ‘No fear of Glass’ that designer Sabine Marcelis carried out from 20th December 2019 to 12th January 2020 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.

The students of the Master’s degree in Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Spaces of Elisava, led by professors Stella Rahola Matutes and Roger Paez, propose a de-construction of the pavilion of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich from their constituent materials.
A tribute will be paid to the city of Barcelona rethought as a producing city, and a trilogy is proposed that will allow a three-year collaboration. It will begin with the choice of glass in this first edition, and will work with transparency and reflection, which rather than qualities, are capabilities of this material that revolutionised architecture and of which the German Pavilion is a paradigm.

Once a year, for Sant Jordi, The Mies van der Rohe Pavilion becomes the ‘Reading Pavilion’. We invite you to enjoy an open doors day to celebrate and share culture. We invite you to come and read in the Pavilion, enjoy its architecture, browse through the publications of the interventions that the Pavilion has hosted over time and to know the great selection of architecture books and novelties that we have in the book store.

Presentation of the monographic issue of the magazine La Maleta de Portbou dedicated to the culture of the time of the Weimar Republic where the articles of the conferences presented in the course of the Escola Europea d’Humanitats “Weimar: the end of certainties” are collected.

A wide range of activities related to the dissemination of architecture and the city will take place during Barcelona Architecture Week 2020. The Fundació Mies van der Rohe is a driving force, together with the Barcelona City Council and the COAC of this initiative that will take place from 7th to 17th May in Barcelona. The Mies van der Rohe Pavilion will be a meeting and dissemination space.

A series of talks, debates and networking spaces focused on architecture and the media. The 2nd European Conference on Architecture and Media is conceived as an event to learn about and exchange experiences on the dissemination of architecture. It is aimed at journalists, cultural institutions and organizations, communication professionals, architects and architecture lovers. The event will take place in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona on 12th and 13th May.

Jaume Claret proposes an intervention in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion through sculptural pieces linked to the reflection on the psychological perception of space.

The designer, curator, professor and writer based in Berlin and New York Prem Krishnamurthy will present his intervention ‘P!DF’. An interactive presentation that collects emerging forms of creative practice in the Barcelona Pavilion during the Night of the Museums. P!DF proposes new experimental ways to look at art, design, curatorship and contemporary life.

Opening of the Young Talent Architecture Award 2020 exhibition in the framework of the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

A sample of the answers that architecture has given to the question of collective housing from the winning works in the last two editions of the EU Mies Award.

Photographic project of the German Arina Dähnick. Intimate “architectural portraits”, which give priority to the details of Mies van der Rohe’s works and to the way in which different lighting and weather conditions interact with the architect’s buildings.

In the 1960s and 1970s, large-scale housing complexes were built around the world as a bold solution to meet the need for housing. Five decades later, they are largely ideologically outdated, urbanistically failed and mature for demolition. In this context, the Never Demolish intervention states that these projects can have a second life better than their first, through a sensible renovation: expanding spaces and improving living standards.

On 23rd June 2020 the 4 winners of the 3rd edition of the Young Talent Architecture Award will be announced.

One more year the Fundació Mies van der Rohe offers a concert in collaboration with the Fundación Goethe, as always, a great opportunity to enjoy music in this space that makes it special.

‘Pantalla Pavelló’ is the film series beamed directly on the travertine of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.
Following the two previous cycles of Pantalla Pavelló, dedicated to Rome and Berlin – the Rome from which came the travertine to build and rebuild the Pavilion and the Berlin of the Bauhaus of Mies van der Rohe – the cycle Pantalla Pavelló 2020 now visits the United States of the architect and brings us closer to the Chicago of the 30s.

In collaboration with the Festival Sónar, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe established years ago Sónar Mies. The sound intervention of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion counts this year with the curator Marcin Szczelina to present Katarzyna Karkowiak who considers sounds as a kind of architecture, planned in its structure, monumental and architecture as a source of sounds. Noise builds a city, you can’t get rid of it, but you can use it. From this look Karkowiak will now work with the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.

‘Pantalla Pavelló’ is the film series beamed directly on the travertine of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.
‘Pantalla Pavelló’ continues to delve deeper into the relationship between the built space, its boundaries and its borders, and the inhabitants that reside there. Architecture, and with it the cities, determines and influences the way we live in the same way that our rules of coexistence and the laws that regulate societies do.

An exhibition with models, videos and images that disseminates around the world the best recent architecture in Europe and creates debate and synergies on the ways of designing, building and using places, cities and territories from the works of the last edition of the EU Mies Award.

The result of the contest “Fear of Columns” selected the proposal that materialized in the intervention “I do not want to change the world. I just want to express it”. In this same thread Martínez Santa-María now presents an essay on the architectural column and its spiritual significance. “The expression of weight shows the various paths that defy the constructive practice and the imperative logic of gravity. And it is extraordinary that architecture, which does not have the same freedom as painting or sculpture, nor that literature or music, demonstrates, in the same narrow margins that limit it, the value of the challenge it challenges and the paradoxical freedom that belongs to it.”

‘Pantalla Pavelló’ is the film series beamed directly on the travertine of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.

‘Pantalla Pavelló’ is the film series beamed directly on the travertine of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.
Following the two previous cycles of Pantalla Pavelló, dedicated to Rome and Berlin – the Rome from which came the travertine to build and rebuild the Pavilion and the Berlin of the Bauhaus of Mies van der Rohe – the cycle Pantalla Pavelló 2020 now visits the United States of the architect and brings us closer to the Chicago of the 30s.

For the sixth edition of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Ana Mas Projects will present an intervention by the artist Laercio Redondo that will explore the theme of history and its multiple narratives. The aim is to create a dialogue with the space of the Pavilion, focused on the question of erasures in time and history, especially in relation to its construction and reconstruction.

Debates and awards ceremony of the Young Talent Architecture Award 2020 in the framework of the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

For la Mercè, in addition to offering open doors in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, we invite you to participate in the family workshops. An activity that has already become a must for a fun family morning.

Barcelona will open to the international landscape on 30th September and 1st and 2nd October 2020 for the 11th edition of the Barcelona Biennial of Landscape. Within this framework, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, in collaboration with The Bartlett School of Architecture in London and MIAS Architects, will present a proposal that will work with the Pavilion and its most landscape side for the Swab Barcelona Art Festival.

One more year the Fundació Mies van der Rohe offers a concert in collaboration with the Fundación Goethe, as always, a great opportunity to enjoy music in this space that makes it special.

Granting the 2nd Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture.
The scholarship supports the study, dissemination and visibility of contributions to architecture that have been unduly relegated or forgotten, made by professionals who have suffered discrimination due to their personal conditions. It also seeks to always promote equal opportunities to the exercise of architecture.

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe participates this year and for the 11th year at the 48h Open House BCN. We offer free guided tours in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion and we also open our offices and part of the archive that generates our work, mainly through the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award and the interventions that have been made over the years in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.

A transforming intervention of the spatiality of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion based on material research.

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe joins the Drawing Party, the Big Draw. A day for anyone who wants to experience the world of drawing freely, spontaneously and for free

Within the framework of the Loop Barcelona festival, the Pavilion hosts an artistic intervention from the video dance piece ” Woman Against the Light” created by Albert Badia and 15-L and based on the artistic intervention by Enric Llorach in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in 2017.