Modest in scale against the backdrop of the Montjuic National Palace, Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich’s Barcelona Pavilion was built to house the German National Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition; a world’s fair held in Barcelona. Much like museum buildings in the US (including St. Louis Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Queens Museum), the Palau Nacional is now home to a museum and collection, the National Art Museum of Catalon (which I did not visit...) . . . #miesvanderrohe #barcelonapavilion #lillyreich #modernism #barcelona #architecture #worldsfairs #worldexpo #expositionhistory #architectureinbarcelona #lastdayinbarcelona