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The German architect Ludwig van der Rohe (1886-1969) he left as a legacy to the city of Barcelona a pavilion that bears the same name and is, without a doubt, a symbolic work of the Modern Movement.
With the official name of National Pavilion of Germany, it was designed for the International Exhibition of 1929, that was celebrated in Montjuïc. Constructed with glass, travertine and different types of marble, the Pavilion was conceived to accommodate the official reception of the king Alfonos XIII to the German authorities.
Dismounting the closure of the Exposition, the Pavilion was converted in to key reference for not only the trajectory of Mies van der Rohe but also for the architectural collective of the XXth century. He has studied and interpreted exhaustively and has inspired the work of various generation of architects of the entire world.
The significance of the Pavilion took to think in the possible reconstruction. In this way, in 1980,
Oriol Bohigas impulsed this initiative from the Delegación de Urbanismo del
Ayuntamiento de Barcelona (Delegation of Urbanism of the City Council of Barcelona), and Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Cristian Cirici and Fernando Ramos were the architects in charge of the investigation, the documentation, the design and the reconstruction of the building.
These works commenced in 1983 and were finished in 1986, the year that the new building was inaugurated. The Pavilion returned to lift itself from its original location and subsequently some aspects of the environment were modified so the original context of the work could be recuperated.
Currently the Pavilion is open to the public. The principal objective of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation of Barcelona is to remain vigilant for the conservation of this building, as well as developing diverse activities connected to the study and promotion of the knowledge of any aspect related to him.