SYMMETRY AND LABYRINTH IN MIES’ PAVILON

In the Barcelona Pavilion Ludwig Mies van der Rohe had proposed different points of view to the visitor: they go from here to somewhere else in continual crossreferences. As many as the different critical essays which could be traced to two lines of thought: the unforeseeable of the labyrinth and the order of symmetry; the perfection of geometry and the experience of frequency; the classicism of theatre and the modernity of cinema which compare alternatives, while the latter go from here to somewhere else. The research here proposes aporia, not synthesis, but dialogue, the dimension of democracy.