Sou Fujimoto: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 |
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| Artist:
| Fujimoto, Sou |
| Editor:
| O'Brien, Sophie |
| Contribution by:
| Obrist, Hans Ulrich
Peyton-Jones, Julia |
| Text by:
| Maak, Niklas |
| ISBN: | 978-3-86335-408-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 is designed by award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (born 1971)--the thirteenth and, at 41, youngest architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery. The Serpentine's past pavilions have included designs by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Frank Gehry (2008), the late Oscar Niemeyer (2003) and Zaha Hadid (2000). Inspired by organic structures such as forests, nests and caves, Fujimoto's...
More DescriptionThe Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 is designed by award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (born 1971)--the thirteenth and, at 41, youngest architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery. The Serpentine's past pavilions have included designs by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Frank Gehry (2008), the late Oscar Niemeyer (2003) and Zaha Hadid (2000). Inspired by organic structures such as forests, nests and caves, Fujimoto's buildings inhabit a space between nature and artificiality. Fujimoto's pavilion is a delicate, latticed structure of steel poles--lightweight and semi-transparent in appearance--that allows it to blend, cloudlike, into the landscape and against the classical backdrop of the Gallery's colonnaded East wing. It is designed as a flexible, multipurpose social space. This volume documents the project.