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David Chipperfield Sticks and Stones an Intervention Installation view
Architecture | 01.10.2014

(smow) blog compact: David Chipperfield. Sticks and Stones at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin

In our 5 New Design Exhibitions for October 2014 post we noted the revolutionary construction techniques Ludwig Mies van der Rohe employed in his Villa Tugendhat Brno and Barcelona Expo Pavilion projects from 1929-30; in both cases the roof being fully supported by the outer walls thus freeing the interior walls of their load carrying function and as such allowing for a more open room division. At that time a genuinely new idea. Over thirty years after realising these works Mies van der Rohe in

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