Berlin's 3 Neoclassicist buildings include two early works by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and one of the city's most important museum buildings. Haus Perls and the Eichstaedt House — both domestic commissions from the 1910s — reveal Mies working through classical tradition before his radical break toward glass and steel. Symmetrical facades, pitched roofs, and restrained proportions characterise these houses that few would associate with the architect of the Barcelona Pavilion.
The Pergamon Museum by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann anchors Museum Island with monumental neoclassical volumes that were designed to house full-scale archaeological reconstructions. Together, these buildings document the classical vocabulary that Berlin's most revolutionary architects both mastered and ultimately rejected.
