EGON EIERMANN / SEP RUF, GERMAN PAVILIONS, BRUSSELS 1958

The German Pavilions were the actual event at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, because what appeared as an oasis of modesty among the t ypical exhibition fairground of bizarre sensationalism was precisely what would not have been expected of economic miracle Germany: no showing off or pomposity, just architecture distinguished by its reticence and the refined simplicity of the architectural resour ces, and by the happy combination of men who created it, all so similar in the nature of their thinking: Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf a s archite...[Read more]