Bacardi Office Building project, Santiago de Cuba (Perspective of columns and roof plate)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
1957
An ink perspective on illustration board that presents Mies van der Rohe’s proposed Bacardí office in Santiago de Cuba, aiming to convey a minimalist, open pavilion defined by a floating roof and rhythmic columns.
The composition strikes with a low, hovering roof supported by evenly spaced columns and a taut grid of ceiling and ground lines that recede to a distant vanishing point, creating a calm, schematic emptiness.
This working drawing distills Mies’s International Style—structural clarity, planar horizontality, and spatial openness—and helped define the modern corporate pavilion as an architectural archetype.
Medium
Ink on illustration board
Dimensions
30 x 40" (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect
Accession
996.1965
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