A WORK IN PUBLIC SPACE BY THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, PRODUCED BY DIA ART FOUNDATION NEW YORK
LOCATED AT FOREST HOUSES, THE BRONX - NEW YORK CITY, SUMMER 2013
(continues from note 22) Consider the Barcelona Pavilion (1929) conceived by Mies
van der Rohe (German, b. 1886 - d. 1969) for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition,
an enigmatic building, a cross between a foyer and an exhibition hallway. With its
system of common areas and open spaces, the pavilion comes into being "all at once"
with no specific function, outside classic conceptions of space by interrogating
the basic conception of shelter by advancing an investigation of subjective discoveries
that can emerge through socialization. It is in this affirmation of subjectivity
that the form of the pavilion can points to social relations often neglected by architecture
and moreover by institutions. (continues on note 24)
