The event took place on 27 March and was broadcast live on the Casa da Arquitectura’s Facebook page. "Outside the Bauhaus" can be understood literally: not only because Mies´s architecture doesn´t have much in common with the so-called Bauhaus-architecture, but in particular, as after April 11, 1933, when the Nazis closed the Berlin Bauhaus and sealed the building, Mies and his students could not enter the building anymore. As a kind of substitution for the no longer possible teaching, Mies took his students in the summer of 1933 on several boat trips to visit places like Schinkel´s famous Charlottenhof and Gilly´s Paretz. Obviously modern architecture for Mies was not restricted to the 20th century only, and this he wanted to communicate to his Bauhaus-students. After Mies´s negotiations with the Nazi-administration for the re-opening failed and Mies finally gave up in Juli 1933, he invited some of his students to follow him and Lily Reich to Lugano, Switzerland, for private teaching. In this context Mies´s most extraordinary design for a House in the Mountains is sketched out.”
Fritz Neumeyer