Bora Malko

Th e Crystal Palace A Greenhouse or A Palace Bora Malko Emmanouil Stavrakakis History and  Th eory Studies 07/12/2018 Th e Crystal Palace; A Greenhouse or A Palace                                                                                                                   1 Description      The Crystal Palace was built in the southern end of Hyde Park in London. It was lo- cated just below the Serpentine river facing the main street between the park and Kensington. It stretches horizontally along the street, its plan forming a parallelog...

The Barcelona Pavilion, or differently known as the German Pavilion, was supposed to be the face of the German side of an international exposition in Barcelona with the burden of representing a worldwide modern movement in architecture as well as a cultural evolution of the post war Germany itself. What differed the building from its neighbors was what eventually became its own architectural ethos of the modern world. In contrast with the other exhibition spaces, the Barcelona Pavilion was not intended as a housing space of art and sculpture but rather as a building of tranquility whose lack of exposition was exactly what transformed it into an inhabitable sculpture. Indeed, this building by Mies van der Rohe manages to separate itself in many specters from the context surrounding it, creating atmospheric effects that seem to occur in a vacuum which dissolves all consciousness of the surrounding, vibrating city.   The pavilion is well known for its transition spaces develo...