Christopher Long: The Roots of the Barcelona Pavilion

For many years, researchers and historians attributed the origin of the groundbreaking design of the Barcelona Pavilion by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to the revolutionary spatial experiments he conducted in the early 1920s. However, the roots of Mies's ideas almost certainly extend further back into history, to his early years in Berlin before World War I. This lecture will examine other possible sources of Mies's complex and extraordinary work.

Christopher Long is a professor of architectural history and design at the University of Texas at Austin. He studied at universities in Graz, Vienna, and Munich. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas in 1993. From 1994 to 1995, he taught at the Central European University in Prague. He is the author of publications including Josef Frank: Life and Work (2002), Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design (2007), The Looshaus (2012), Josef Frank: Schriften / Writings (2012, ed. with Tano Bojankin and Iris Meder), Kem Weber: Designer and Architect (2014), and Der Fall Loos (2015).

Christopher Long already lectured at the Tugendhat Villa in November 2012 and was also the very first foreign lecturer to present at the Tugendhat Villa. His lecture at that time on the architectural spatial concepts of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Adolf Loos, Oskar Strnad, Josef Frank, and Hans Scharoun was a great success and resonance.
http://www.tugendhat.eu/cz/aktualne/prednaska-christophera-longa-profesora-dejin-architektury-na-texaske-univerzite-v-austinu-190.html

The lecture will take place on Monday, March 23, 2015, at 5 PM. (The villa tour is not part of the lecture).
The lecture will be in English and will not be interpreted.

Admission is 100 CZK; students and seniors 50 CZK
Reservation for the lecture is required at: +420 515 511 015 / 017
or via email: [email protected] (limited capacity of 70 persons).

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