HOUSE WITH PATIO FROM MIES VAN DER ROHE

A review of the theme, House with Patio, with special reference to the plans developed by Mies van der Rohe during his last years in Berlin, in relation to the well-known drawing called: "House with three patios". His architectural thoughts are explored through the historiographic data of his career, plus those that can be deduced from the analysis of the architect's previous drawings and sketches. The group of projects, in which the theme appears is prolific from that time, and the preserved drawings offer multiple opportunities for reflection. Concepts on that medium are examined, relative to spatial and formal definition, where questions appear that link that definition with the constructive systems and materials. Structural mesh, glass wall, habitable patio, being necessarily connected to their respective architectural qualities, they acquire the sense of the project materials used to define a particular way of understanding architecture in which the user is always present as its intended occupant. Finally, consideration is given to the didactic utility of the analysis of those drawings for the progress of knowledge about the architectural project.