Pantalla Pavelló | Architecture in Family: The Mies van der Rohes by Sabine Gisiger

With summer comes Pantalla Pavelló, the al fresco cinema cycle at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion that turns the travertine wall into a big screen. A different cinema accompanied by a presentation and a space for conversation to contextualize each of the films.

This year’s cycle, under the title Architecture in the Family, brings us three films that bring us closer to the family relationships of renowned architects, with a strong and unique personality that inspire their sons and daughters to follow in their creative footsteps. We see how this confronts them with the dual desire to be like the father and to be both critical and independent from him. All three films build the story through buildings, letters and memories, revealing characters and conflicts that speak of universal feelings.

The first film in the series, presented by the director herself, is The Mies van der Rohes by Sabine Gisige: an exciting family story that creates a moral portrait of the modern age through the women around the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – his wife Ada, his three daughters Georgia, Marianne and Waltraut, and his partner Lilly Reich. When Mies emigrates to the USA in 1938, they fight on their own through the barbarism of the Nazi era and the war. Their lives continue marked by the legacy of their absent husband, father and lover. This is how the eldest daughter, Georgia van der Rohe, explains it with films, images and private documents, unpublished and forgotten.

Buy your tickets here, before they sell out, for just €2.

Programme Architecture in the Family film series (VO sub CAT/ENG)
July 1, 9:30 p.m.: The Mies van der Rohes by Sabine Gisiger
August 5, 9.30pm: Concrete Love by Maurizius Staerkle-Drux
September 2, 9:30 p.m.: Skin of Glass by Denise Zmekhol

*we have some seats specially reserved for those who have the Pavilion Card. If you have it contact aquí. If you want it, you can buy it here.

First film file:

Title: The Mies van der Rohes
Director: Sabine Gisiger
Year: 2022
Timing: 95′
Place: Switzerland

An exciting family story that creates a moral portrait of the modern age through the women around the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – his wife Ada, his three daughters Georgia, Marianne and Waltraut, and his partner Lilly Reich. When Mies emigrated to the US in 1938, they fight for their own account through the barbarism of the Nazi era and the war. Their lives are marked by the legacy of their husband, father and lover. This is how the eldest daughter, Georgia van der Rohe, tells it with films, images and private documents, unpublished and forgotten.

Buy your tickets here.