“When Philip Johnson saw Frank Lloyd Wright’s sky-lit Johnson Wax building, he described the experience as feeling under water. When San Francisco architect Stanley Saitowitz visited Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, he was so struck he learned to understand space the way a fish understands water.

Photographer Stephan Goettlicher has picked up on this notion of modernity and liquidity, expanding it into the level of an artistic dialogue.”

— Terence Riley, Architect, Museum Director, Curator & Writer

on ‘Swimming with Mies’ in 2020