Ron Bacardi y Compania, S.A., Administration Building, project, Santiago, Cuba, Site plan
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
1957-1960
A meticulous pencil drawing on ozalid paper that lays out the site plan for Ron Bacardi’s administration building, showing Mies van der Rohe resolving the precise, rectilinear placement, access routes, and landscape relationships of a modern corporate office.
The sheet reads like a calm machine: an exact grid of faint pencil strokes, crisp orthogonal outlines, careful annotations and tiny tree symbols that make the planned structure feel both rigorously ordered and quietly situated in its site.
The drawing captures Mies’s postwar rationalist method—translating his spare geometric language into a corporate commission in Cuba and helping define the visual logic of the modern office and campus planning.
Medium
Pencil on ozalid
Dimensions
34 1/4 x 48" (87 x 121.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect
Accession
MR5701.395
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