Barcelona Pavilion. Diagrams of the Elusive
2026 / images, visualSubject: Graphic analysis of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion
Date: c. 1990s
Author: Paul Rudolph
Source: Interview with Peter Blake (Paul Rudolph Institute)
Rudolph treats the Pavilion as a problem of notation: how to draw what refuses to remain still — light, reflection, spatial pressure.
Density & Flowing of Space
A sequence of attempts to render the elusive without reducing it to plan — a drawing practice approaching phenomenology.