From Sketches to Collage: The Paradoxical Representation of the Void in Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture

From Sketches to Collage: The Paradoxical Representation of the Void in Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture

How does one represent the void when it is invisible and lacks limits, yet constitutes the basisof an entire architecture? This foundational paradox of modernity was radically expressed bythe intuitive explorations of Mies van der Rohe in his sketches for courtyard houses in late-1920s Europe, sketc...

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Autor Principal: Muñoz Carabias, Francisco
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spelling oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article-728882021-01-28T18:24:18Z From Sketches to Collage: The Paradoxical Representation of the Void in Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture De los bocetos al collage. La representación paradójica del vacío en la arquitectura de Mies van der Rohe Muñoz Carabias, Francisco Mies van der Rohe paradox sketch collage material space void Barcelona Pavilion Mies van der Rohe paradoja boceto collage materia espacio vacío Pabellón de Barcelona How does one represent the void when it is invisible and lacks limits, yet constitutes the basisof an entire architecture? This foundational paradox of modernity was radically expressed bythe intuitive explorations of Mies van der Rohe in his sketches for courtyard houses in late-1920s Europe, sketches that culminated in his most astonishing, accomplished project: theBarcelona Pavilion; in later years, these explorations were expressed through the collagesfor his first American project, the Resor House. Examining these sketches and collages willreveal the architect’s visionary ambitions and the difficulties in making them a material reality;paradoxically, this is one of the aspects that the unlimited, weightless and unfinished voidlacks, which his architecture “constructed” aporetically, making it just another material, if notthe most important. ¿Cómo representar el vacío cuando es invisible y carece de límites, y a su vez, sin embargo, constituyeel fundamento de toda una arquitectura? Esta paradoja fundacional de la modernidad tuvo en Miesvan der Rohe la expresión radical de una búsqueda intuitiva a través de unos dibujos probatoriosexpresados en los bocetos de sus proyectos de casas patio de finales de los años veinte en Europa,bocetos que culminaron en su obra más sorprendente y lograda: el Pabellón de Barcelona; y en losaños siguientes, en los collages de su primer proyecto en América, la casa Resor. Un recorrido por ellosrevelará por sí mismo la ambición visionaria desarrollada por el arquitecto y las dificultades que hubopara su materialización; paradójicamente, ésta es una de las cualidades de las cuales carece dicho vacíoilimitado, ingrávido e inconcluso, y el cual su arquitectura “construyó” de forma aporética haciendo deél otro material más del proyecto, cuando no el más importante. Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2020-03-20 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Investigación application/pdf application/xml https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/72888 10.22201/fa.14058901p.2019.42.72888 Bitacora Arquitectura; No. 42 (2019): Drawing and Architecture; 82-91 Bitácora Arquitectura; Núm. 42 (2019): Dibujo y arquitectura; 82-91 2594-0856 1405-8901 10.22201/fa.14058901p.2019.42 spa https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/72888/66656 https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/72888/67555 Derechos de autor 2020 Bitácora Arquitectura
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From Sketches to Collage: The Paradoxical Representation of the Void in Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture
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title_short From Sketches to Collage: The Paradoxical Representation of the Void in Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture
title_full From Sketches to Collage: The Paradoxical Representation of the Void in Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture
title_fullStr From Sketches to Collage: The Paradoxical Representation of the Void in Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture
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description How does one represent the void when it is invisible and lacks limits, yet constitutes the basisof an entire architecture? This foundational paradox of modernity was radically expressed bythe intuitive explorations of Mies van der Rohe in his sketches for courtyard houses in late-1920s Europe, sketches that culminated in his most astonishing, accomplished project: theBarcelona Pavilion; in later years, these explorations were expressed through the collagesfor his first American project, the Resor House. Examining these sketches and collages willreveal the architect’s visionary ambitions and the difficulties in making them a material reality;paradoxically, this is one of the aspects that the unlimited, weightless and unfinished voidlacks, which his architecture “constructed” aporetically, making it just another material, if notthe most important.
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