Ten Years Serpentine Gallery Pavilions

Autor: Jodidio Philip
Wydawnictwo: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836526135

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Ten years of temporary pavilions by top architectsSince 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens hascalled on some of the world's top architects to design summer pavilions -temporary structures that are erected next to the Gallery itself for athree-month period. The Serpentine, which was built in 1934 as a teapavilion, opened in 1970 as a showplace for exhibitions of modern andcontemporary artists ranging from Matthew Barney to Dan Flavin, EllsworthKelley, Louise Bourgeois or Rachel Whiteread. The pavilions in the Programme that was conceived in 2000 by theSerpentine Director Julia Peyton-Jones, are the work of internationalarchitects or design teams who at the time of the Serpentine's invitationhave not completed a building in England. A maximum of six months frominvitation to completion is allotted. The only architecture program of itstype in the world, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions attract up to 250,000visitors each summer. The Serpentine Pavilion is regularly ranked in thetop 5 most attended architecture and design exhibitions worldwide in TheArt Newspaper's annual survey of museums and galleries visitor figures. Thearchitect Richard Rogers has stated, "The pavilions, erected for reativelylittle money, are unbelievably good. I coudn't single one out that I haveliked more than the others - they have all been masterpieces." The projects completed or envisaged include the work of? Zaha Hadid, 2000? Daniel Libeskind, 2001? Toyo Ito, 2002? Oscar Niemeyer, 2003? MVRDV, 2004 (un-realised)? Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond, 2005? Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond, 2006? Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen, 2007? Frank Gehry, 2008? SANAA, 2009? Jean Nouvel, 2010? Other works such as Zaha Hadid's temporary 2006 installation Lilas areincluded in the book as well. This book is the first to bring together allof the Serpentine Pavilions. Interviews of Serpentine Director JuliaPeyton-Jones and Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist complete the description ofthe pavilions, illustrated by the original drawings by each architect andphotos of the completed works.The author: Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and editedConnaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN'sArchitecture Now! series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster,Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renownedas one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.

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