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Sabinevon Fischer on the Barcelona pavilion plus two other reviews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2003

Sabine von Fischer  and
Richard Hill
Sabine von Fischer
Affiliation:
Sabine von Fischer read architecture and now teaches at ETH Zürich and at Columbia University. In 1998 she became a founding partner of Normal Group for Architecture (www.normalgroup.net)
Richard Hill
Affiliation:
Richard Hill is an architect and writer. He was recently involved in the reinstallation of the British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Extract

The building that for many incorporates the essence of twentieth-century Modern architecture existed for only six months. Critics have called the Barcelona Pavilion a myth, an icon, an image. In this book, Josep Quetglas claims that it is a stage where the performance can only be described by ‘emptiness and the future’. And although what is true for theatre might not apply to architecture, the dramatic dynamics inherent in modern theatre's concern that the stage set should never repeat the text of the play do help explain the varied and contradictory interpretations of the Barcelona Pavilion.

Type
Arq review
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 277 - 283
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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