Greg Neville, The Barcelona Pavillion, 2011

One of my other sites is modernismus.wordpress.com where I’ve created an archive of my photographs of modernist architecture. The images have been taken during my travels and research trips both in Australia and overseas. The images on this post, more of which can be seen on the Europe page at modernismus.wordpress.com/europe, show the durability of the modernist ideal in architecture.

The Barcelona Pavillion above was designed by Mies van der Rohe in the 1920s, but the actual structure you see is a 1980s copy of the destroyed original. It is accurate in every detail.

The Bosnian Historical Museum in Sarajevo dates from the 1970s, four decades after it’s prototypes by Mies, Le Corbusier and others. The Serbs tried to blow it up in the Balkan war of the 1990s, but it survives, sort of.

Greg Neville, Bosnian Historical Museum 2011

This final image below, of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, shows the continuing development and relevance of high modernism. It is the work of U.S. architect Richard Meiers, who also built L.A.s Getty museum, amongst many others. It was built in the 1990s, and shows the influence of Le Corbusier.

Greg Neville, Museu D’Art Contemporani de Barcelona 2011

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