密斯·凡·德·罗似是而非的对称

Mies van der Rohe's Paradoxical Symmetries

通过对有关巴塞罗那馆的照片、文字、图纸的深入分析以及在重建的展馆的现场观察,罗宾·埃文斯探讨了密斯·凡·德·罗的这一重要作品中所暗藏的种种似是而非的属性:对称性与不对称性,结构的逻辑与外表的逻辑,延展的空间与封闭的空间,对体量的压抑与对光线的操纵,打破秩序的反射与创造统一性的反射,等等,并且对巴塞罗那馆的政治性进行了重新的解读——它的美使密斯和他的同代人从政治与暴虐中分神。

Through his in-depth analysis of the photographs, writings, and drawings of the Barcelona Pavilion, combined with on-site observations at the reconstructed building, Robin Evans explores a series of paradoxical properties hidden in this important work by Mies van der Rohe： symmetry vs. asymmetry, logic of structure vs. logic of appearance, extensive space vs. closed space, suppression of mass vs. manipulation of light, reflections that break thing up vs. reflections that create coherence, etc., and proposes an alternative interpretation of the politics of the pavilion - its beauty distracts Mies and his contemporaries from politics and violence.