The German pavilion is a modern structure with a classic spirit. To me it has great resemblance to a Greek temple which it’s walls are moved away from each other and it’s stairs are moved to the other side while it still keeps it’s elevation’s symmetry. Instead of only one rectangle in the pavilion there many, emerged together to form a coherent space. It’s rigidness and it’s being of no architecture (having no internal space) has been transformed to weightlessness and total work of architecture and as in the Greeks temples exist this question that between the walls and columns which one are a structural element and the other one a decorative one and there seems that these are the columns who does so in the pavilion also exist this question but he way around for in the pavilion these are walls that seem to keep the roof while the column become an decorative element. While in both of them still the podium is present and also the nature as in inseparable element. To me seems that in the mind of Mies Van Der Rohe the republic of Weimar was a republican society as the Greeks to who breathe to become a utopia something that is also very present in the classic Greek society. For this can be another sign that Mies Van Der Rohe was not a Nazi sympathizer for Nazis were clear admires of the Roman empire who conquered the Greeks. We may can call Mies Van Der Rohe a Neo– classist in his own way.
