Inventing a new living space between Stuttgart, Barcelona and Brno

Active in industry organizations, Mies van der Rohe designed the overall concept for the deutscher Werkbund's housing exhibition in Stutgart in 1927, where he created a residential building remarkable for its steel framework and transformable floor plans. With the German Pavilion at the Barcelona Exhibition (1929) and the Tugendhat House in Brno (1930), he imagined a new space, in which activities unfold in fluid continuity, made possible by the rigorous interplay between the walls stretched in noble materials and the fine nickel-plated steel columns of the framework.