Seagram Building
The Seagram Building is a skyscraper in New York City, located
at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in
Midtown Manhattan. It was designed by the German architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in collaboration with the American
Philip Johnson.
It is 515 feet tall with 38 stories. Severud Associates were
the structural engineering consultants. It stands as one of
the finest examples of the functionalist aesthetic and a
masterpiece of corporate modernism. It was designed as the
headquarters for the Canadian distillers Joseph E. Seagram’s
& Sons, thanks to the foresight of Phyllis Lambert, the
daughter of Samuel Bronfman, Seagram’s CEO.
Barcelona Pavilion
The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,
was the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition
in Barcelona, Spain. This building was used for the official
opening of the German section of the exhibition.
Mies was offered the commission of this building in 1928 after
his successful administration of the 1927 Werkbund exhibition
in Stuttgart. The German Reich entrusted Mies with the
artistic management and erection of not only the Barcelona
Pavilion, but for the buildings for all the German sections at
the 1929 Universal Exhibition.
Neue Nationalgalerie
Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum is a museum for
classical modern art in Berlin, with main focus on early the
20th century. It is part of the German National Gallery. The
museum building and its sculpture garden were designed by
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened in 1968.
The collection features a number of unique highlights of
modern 20th century art. Particularly well represented are
Cubism, Expressionism, the Bauhaus and Surrealism. The
collection owns masterpieces of artists like Pablo Picasso,
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky and
Barnett Newman.
