"Inviting Life"
Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
2021-2023
As part of the students of the Master’s degree in Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Spaces of Elisava, led by professors Stella Rahola Matutes and Roger Paez, the proposal exhibited in Shanghai Biennial SUSAS presents a re-reading of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich’s Barcelona Pavilion based on its constituent materials.
Following ‘Beautiful Failures’ (2019-2021) – a project proposed by MEATS students which questioned vulnerability and fragility from the two most delicate materials of the Pavilion’s construction: travertine and glass, in ‘Inviting Life (2021-2023) the second part, two generations of MEATS students explored the changes that transform materials by effects of time, from the study of travertine slabs (Rocking the accident (2021-2022))
"The growth of mosses and lichens on the Pavilion’s stones is often interrupted by maintenance tasks that seek to give the Pavilion an aspect of invariability that corresponds to its mythical and prefixed image. The effect of the garden’s biotope on the Pavilion’s materials and the links with other organic agents create an imbalance, a tension, which can produce a change because matter is never stable."
- Stella Raholes Matutes
For more information, visit artist Stella Raholes Matutes publication in the following link:
https://www.stella.cat/copia-de-work
