Crystalline qualities of glass were very appreciated by Expressionism.Some years later, transparency became a keystone for the Modern Movement.Mies van der RECT DRM Counter TBL Set(3/CN) Rohe drew his entry for the Friedrichstrasse Competition in 1921, in a moment of transition between both architectonical movements.The aim of this article is to show how the graphic documents made by Mies exemplify this change of tendency.His representation of the glazed enclosure evolves from opaque reflection to a partial transparency that shows the inner structure.
This process Brake Cam confirms the importance of structural conception for the architectural form.These drawings show the beginning of a new poetic of transparency, for its author as for Modernism.