Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - German Pavilion, Barcelona Exhibition 1929

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - German Pavilion Barcelona - 1929  

Take a look at the photo here of Mies van der Rohe's German Pavilion ... Looks like a house in LA built in 2014 - doesn't it? But, 1929? Think about model-T's, trains and trolley cars, people that still lived in their ancestral log cabins, broadcast radio and phonographs  as high tech, women dressed in full length skirts, government buildings dressed in Romantic colonnades ... think about all that and then look again at this. The German Pavilion at Barcelona was a revolution in design. So, how does someone who has never seen something like this invent it from thin air? I try to answer that question in the academic paper below. But, for those who aren't up for 15 pages of academic term-papery, I'll give a brief description of The Pavilion in the post here.