My jour­ney as a teacher to Syria is also a jour­ney back to the archi­tec­tural roots of mod­ernism. The stu­dents here are inno­cent when it comes to his­tory, so It was back to school for myself: I reverted to study Mies & Cor­busier again, in order to pass on the knowl­edge. This is why I was excited by this find:

At auc­tion house Jeschke, Hauff & Auver­mann in Berlin, on Novem­ber 13th 2007 is an auc­tion of 123 pho­tographs from the prewar ouevre of Mies van der Rohe. Now my under­stand­ing is that Mies was noto­ri­ously restric­trive about images of his work being dis­trib­uted and pub­lished, so these are a real find. But their prove­nance is debat­able, and their ori­gins unknown.

Read on on Kosmograd.

Kos­mo­grad tediously col­lected the auction’s images in a flickr-​set. Among them pic­tures of the orig­i­nal (!) Barcelona Pavil­lion, The Weis­senhof Sied­lung and Haus Tugend­hat. Thank you.