Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Bank and Office Building project, Stuttgart, Germany (Perspective view from Hindenburgplatz). 1928

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Bank and Office Building project, Stuttgart, Germany (Perspective view from Hindenburgplatz) 1928

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This 1928 competition called for the design of a multiuse building with a banking hall and retail and office space in central Stuttgart. The photograph used as the basis for the entries represented here features a busy intersection with pedestrians, cars, traffic signs, and the recently completed railroad station by architect Paul Bonatz (German, 1877–1956). Inserted into this milieu, just a corner of the projected building is visible, framed on either side by the existing urban fabric. Photomontage is used to graphically describe the proposed building’s impact on the site, introducing collage as a critical element both in how the city is imagined and how it might be transformed. Mies van der Rohe made use of new building technologies and commercial advertising to distinguish his proposed building, which is sheathed in glass, from its surroundings.

Gallery label from Cut 'n' Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City, July 10–December 1, 2013.
Medium
Graphite and crayon on gelatin-silver photograph
Dimensions
37 13/16 x 59 1/8" (96 x 150.2 cm)
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Object number
90.2003
Copyright
© 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Department
Architecture and Design

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