2013
Author(s): Andrés Jaque
With contributions by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrice Galilee, Dan Handel
Edited by Ivan Blasi

11.0 x 7.75 x 0.125 inches
48 pages
paperback

PHANTOM Mies as Rendered Society is an intervention carried out by Andrés Jaque in the Barcelona Pavilion, result of the research that Jaque has developed during the last two years at the invitation of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the Foundation Sabadell Bank. At different points of the Pavilion space, an important part of the objects that are guarded in the basement on which it sits. A basement, presented as the ghost of the Pavilion (PHANTOM) that had never before attracted attention of those who visit it or study it and to whom, however, Jaque recognizes an important role in the emergence of its architecture as social construction. The team in charge of the reconstruction of the 29th Pavilion thought that the basement would facilitate the registration and maintenance of your installations; he also decided that his access should be difficult to avoid, in the future, ending up being used as a space exhibition in which it was explained to Mies and the Pavilion. In the basement they have finished keeping all those material witnesses who give account of the social fabric affected by a common project: reinterpret every day the morning of May when the Pavilion of 29 was inaugurated.