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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion seems to feature ideas ranging from the distant past like classicism, to more recent ones, such as Industrial Neoclassicism. Classicism is the style of the ancients, or the ancient Greeks and Romans, of which the Greek temple or the temple in general is considered the paradigm. Industrial Neoclassicism is a term coined by Peter Behrens to describe reduced and abstracted architecture, that became increasingly popular during the 19th and 20th centuries. Mies seems to have shared a passion for exploring how Industrial Neoclassicism could manifest itself better in modern buildings, a venture that Behrens, whom he worked with, had taken interest in himself. The combination of glass, steel and stone create dramatic contrasts and comparisons between the materials and the structures they create. The glass creates a sense of seamlessness while the stone seems to assert dominance. While glass and steel have been used extensively to ornament th

  The pied-à-terre has four floors: the ground floor and three levels. The ground floor has two small lawns at the front and back, a car park, utility room and a staircase leading up to level 1. Level 1 comprises of three bedrooms and two baths. The rooms are located in such a way that light would enter through the elongated windows into the rooms and hallway, each room would have enough privacy and also with an inverted arrangement, like Garches. Moving through the floor, another staircase is visible at the end, which leads up to Level 2. This floor has all the living spaces combined into one room, except for the toilet room which is cut off from the rest of the floor. Level 2 also has a small balcony that is accessible from the living area. Next to the toilet room is the last staircase that leads up to the roof terrace. This plan has been constructed in the manner of Corbusier by applying the Five Points of Architecture; the pilotis, free plan, ribbon window, free facade and the roof