In Progress: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion / Sou Fujimoto

Posted on mayo 23, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Sou Fujimoto’s contribution for the 13th edition of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is beginning to take shape, as the “geometric, cloud-like form” has slowly made its way towards the height of the trees in the rustic landscape of London’s Kensington Gardens. Upon its completion in June, the 350 square-meter latticed structure will fuse together the man-made and natural world, creating a lush, semi-transparent terrain that will host a series of flexible social spaces and a vibrant collection of plant life.

More images by London photographer Laurence Mackman after the break.

The temporary pavilion will be Sou’s first project in the UK. He is the third Japanese architect and, at 41, the youngest architect to accept the Serpentine Gallery’s invitation, following the star-studded list that includes Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Peter Zumthor (2011), Jean Nouvel (2010), SANAA (2009), and more.

Julia Peyton-Jones, Director, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, said: “We are thrilled to be working with one of the most fascinating architects in the world today. A visionary, who has conceived an extraordinary response to our invitation to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Sou Fujimoto has designed a structure that will enthral everyone that encounters it throughout the summer.”

The 2013 Serpentine Pavilion will be on view in the front lawn of London’s Serpentine Gallery from June 8 through October 20. A lecture conducted by Sou will take place at 3PM (ticket information here) on the pavilion’s grand opening day.

Watch an interview with Sou Fujimoto and learn more about his design here.

In Progress: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion / Sou Fujimoto originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 23 May 2013.

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In Progress: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion / Sou Fujimoto

Posted on mayo 23, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

More images by London photographer Laurence Mackman after the break.

Watch an interview with Sou Fujimoto and learn more about his design here.

In Progress: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion / Sou Fujimoto originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 23 May 2013.

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Rocks And Ducks: A Mind-Blowing Stroll Through Kensington Park’s Serpentine Gallery

Posted on marzo 19, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

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Story by Karen Wong, New Museum deputy director and A+ Awards juror.

The lyrics of “Foggy Day In London Town” drifted into my subconscious as my goddaughter and I walked along the pathway in Kensington Park. We were on our way to the Serpentine Gallery when we both stopped dead in our tracks.

Before us, in the morning mist, were two enormous rocks, one balancing on the other. No doubt there was some sophisticated engineering going on, and the result was monumental, precarious, and poetic.

The work that so beguiled us turned out to be Rock on Top of Another Rock, by the Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss (who died last spring). Standing 18 feet tall, Rock, completed in 2012, expands upon the pair’s lifelong obsession with stability/instability and counterpoints. Their famous Equilibres/Quiet Afternoon photographic series used everyday household objects in contorted assemblages of balance, capturing the moment before collapse. Read more!

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Stonehenge, photo via Wikipedia; David Hammons, Rock Head, 1998, via Museo d’Arte contemporanea DonnaREgina

A catalog of references swam through my head and I explained to my precocious 9- year-old companion the importance of rocks in architecture and art. I started with the nearby prehistoric burial ground Stonehenge and finished with David Hammons’ Rock Heads, made of rocks the artist collected in Harlem and onto which local barbers glued hair.

In her posh English accent, my goddaughter responded, “Well I think it looks remarkably like a duck.”

“That’s what’s so wonderful about art: Everyone can interpret as they wish and there are no wrong answers.”

Photo credit by RAD

Photo by RAD

Days later, I looked up Rock on Top of Another Rock on the Serpentine Gallery’s website. The project is introduced with this quote:

“In Norway and here, to put one rock on top of another rock in the wilderness is the first thing you do if you want to make a mark. When you walk and you want to find your way back … you make this mark. It is a very archaic, simple thing, but it is referencing the [Robert] Venturi duck. We wanted to make something that forces you to stop your car and get out to take a photograph.” Peter Fischli

Goddaughter 1. Godmother 0.

Robert Venturi, along with Denise Scott Brown, first wrote about “ducks” in 1977′s Learning from Las Vegas. The seminal architecture book pronounced that there are two kinds of buildings: those that present themselves as a symbol of what they stand for (ducks) and those that take on a generic form and require signage (decorated sheds). Almost 40 years later, Learning from Las Vegas continues to rear its beaked head!

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Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, photo via Wikipedia

If we are going to take a juggernaut axiom of architecture and apply it to contemporary art, we are left with the resulting hypothesis: If Fischli and Weiss’s Rock on Top of Another Rock is a duck, and if Hammonds’ Rock Heads are ducks, then the goose is Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.

Sou Fujimoto To Design Serpentine Pavilion!

Posted on febrero 14, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

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Sou Fujimoto has been commissioned to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London this year! The Tokyo-based architect has proposed a semi-transparent, deceptively delicate-looking structure made with criss-crossed steel bars. The latticework will allow visitors to enjoy and engage with Kensington Gardens’ gorgeous greenery, and stepped terraces will provide seating for eating, drinking, and socializing.

At 41, Fujimoto is the youngest architect ever chosen to design the pavilion. Past designers include Frank Gehry (2008), Oscar Niemeyer (2003), and Zaha Hadid (2000).

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Images: Sou Fujimoto Architects

Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei to design Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012

Posted on febrero 7, 2012 by socializarq

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Jacques Herzog, Ai Weiwei and Pierre de Meuron © Courtesy of Serpentine Gallery

Today, the Serpentine Gallery announced the team that will design the twelfth edition of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, a special edition that will be part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad.

Every year the gallery invites a renowned international architects who has not built yet in the UK, to design a temporary pavilion that hosts public activities in at the Gallery’s lawn, in London’s Hyde Park between June and October 2012. The list of architects for the past editions includes several Pritzker laureates. More info of this program at our Serpentine Gallery Pavilion infographic.

This years teams includes Pritzker laureate architects Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (runner up of TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year). The trio has worked together in projects such as ORDOS 100 in the Mongolian desert and the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games. As a trio they don’t have any built projects in the UK, but Herzog & de Meuron have been involved in several, including the Tate Modern renovation and its current expansion.

Their design will explore the hidden history of the previous installations (more info), with eleven columns under the lawn of the Serpentine, representing the past pavilions and a twelfth column supporting a floating platform roof 1.5 metres above ground. Taking an archaeological approach, the architects have created a design that will inspire visitors to look beneath the surface of the park as well as back in time across the ghosts of the earlier structures.

Julia Peyton-Jones, Director, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, said: “It is a great honour to be working with Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. We are delighted that our annual commission will bring this unique architectural collaboration to Europe to mark the continuity between the Beijing 2008 and the London 2012 Games.”

Describing their design concept Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei said:
“Every year since 2000, a different architect has been responsible for creating the Serpentine Gallery’s summer Pavilion for Kensington Gardens. That makes eleven Pavilions so far, our contribution will be the twelfth. So many Pavilions in so many different shapes and out of so many different materials have been conceived and built that we tried instinctively to sidestep the unavoidable problem of creating an object, a concrete shape.

“Our path to an alternative solution involves digging down some five feet into the soil of the park until we reach the groundwater. There we dig a waterhole, a kind of well, to collect all of the London rain that falls in the area of the Pavilion. In that way we incorporate an otherwise invisible aspect of reality in the park – the water under the ground – into our Pavilion. As we dig down into the earth we encounter a diversity of constructed realities such as telephone cables and former foundations. Like a team of archaeologists, we identify these physical fragments as remains of the eleven Pavilions built between 2000 and 2011. Their shape varies: circular, long and narrow, dots and also large, constructed hollows that have been filled in. These remains testify to the existence of the former Pavilions and their greater or lesser intervention in the natural environment of the park.

“All of these foundations will now be uncovered and reconstructed. The old foundations form a jumble of convoluted lines, like a sewing pattern. A distinctive landscape emerges out of the reconstructed foundations which is unlike anything we could have invented; its form and shape is actually a serendipitous gift. The three-dimensional reality of this landscape is astonishing and it is also the perfect place to sit, stand, lie down or just look and be amazed. In other words, the ideal environment for continuing to do what visitors have been doing in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions over the past eleven years – and a discovery for the many new visitors anticipated for the London 2012 Olympic Games.”

On the foundations of each single Pavilion, we extrude a new structure (supports, walls) as load-bearing elements for the roof of our Pavilion – eleven supports all told, plus our own column that we can place at will, like a wild card. The roof resembles that of an archaeological site. It floats some five feet above the grass of the park, so that everyone visiting can see the water on it, its surface reflecting the infinitely varied, atmospheric skies of London. For special events, the water can be drained off the roof as from a bathtub, from whence it flows back into the waterhole, the deepest point in the Pavilion landscape. The dry roof can then be used as a dance floor or simply as a platform suspended above the park.

No images of the design have been released yet. We will keep you updated.

Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei to design Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 07 Feb 2012.

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Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei Reunite to Design Serpentine Gallery

Posted on febrero 7, 2012 by socializarq

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Ai Weiwei having a feast with Herzog & de Meuron

In London today, the Serpentine Gallery announced that Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will reunite four years after designing Beijing National Stadium to design the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion. The annual commission has become a major event in the art and architecture community, with a short yet impressive heritage including designs by Oscar Niemeyer, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, and Zaha Hadid.

The 2006 Serpentine Gallery designed by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond

The decision to call upon the team behind the iconic Olympic Bird’s Nest is “tremendously exciting,” Julia Peyton-Jones, director of the Serpentine, tells the Guardian. “What is so fantastic,” she adds, “is that it is this extraordinary link of the two games, a Beijing-London axis… it is a continuation of a conversation that began in Beijing to great effect, and [Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Ai Weiwei] have conceived something really remarkable for our lawn.”

Ai Weiwei is perhaps most recognized these days not for his work but for his flighty rapport with the Chinese government. Last April, the outspoken artist was arrested and held without charge by authorities for almost three months, allegedly for breaching tax laws. As the Guardian reports, Ai has been working with the Swiss architects over Skype, and whether or not he will be able to leave China by the time the pavilion is up in June remains to be seen.

Currently, the team has revealed a few details concerning their plan for the 12^th Serpentine Pavilion, including a low platform roof (barely 5 feet off the ground), 12 symbolic columns, and a means to collect rainwater and reflect the sky. In a joint statement, Herzog, de Meuron and Ai promised the pavilion would be “the perfect place to sit, stand, lie down, or just look and be amazed.”

Hans-Peter Feldmann 11 April – 3 June 2012

Posted on enero 3, 2012 by socializarq

Hans-Peter Feldmann (born 1941, Dusseldorf) rose to prominence in the early 1970s, earning worldwide acclaim for his expansive and encyclopaedic photographic series. Often presented in the form of books, posters, postcards and gallery installations, these collections link Feldmann’s life-long fascination with collecting to his practice as an archivist of visual culture. His exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery will be his first solo presentation in a UK public gallery since winning the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize.

Feldmann’s work has been widely exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2011), Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2010), Arnolfini, Bristol (2007), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2003) and Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (1992). His work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 2009 and 2003, Take Me I’m Yours, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Serpentine Gallery in 1995, and Documenta in 1977 and 1972.

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Yoko Ono 2012 exhibition announced

Posted on noviembre 3, 2011 by socializarq

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In Summer 2012 the Serpentine Gallery will present a major exhibition of the work of celebrated artist Yoko Ono for the London 2012 Festival, which will include SMILE, a large-scale participatory project.

The Serpentine’s timely exhibition will reflect upon the enormous impact that Yoko Ono has made on contemporary art, exploring her influential role in art, music, film and performance. Her first exhibition in a London public institution for more than a decade, Ono will present new and existing works, some of which have rarely been shown in the UK. These will include installations, films and performances, as well as architectural alterations to the galleries.

As a part of her exhibition, Ono will present SMILE, a large-scale project which will be exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery and online for the London 2012 Festival. Conceived as a way of connecting people across the world, the project invites people to upload and send an image of their smiles, to create a global anthology of portraits.

Ono envisions that ‘all of the smiles… that are collected will be kept by the Serpentine Gallery as a record for the planet Earth. When people take part in the SMILE, they will receive their own smile to take home.’

Working as an artist, film-maker, poet, musician, writer, performance artist and peace activist for over five decades, Yoko Ono has influenced generations of artists and received numerous prestigious awards. In her prolific career, she has embraced a wide range of media, defying traditional boundaries and creating new forms of artistic expression. Born in 1933 in Tokyo, she is a pioneer of conceptual art. Her work has been presented internationally in major exhibitions and performances.

Yoko Ono at the Serpentine Gallery will be part of the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week UK-wide celebration featuring world leading artists from Midsummer’s Day on 21 June to the final day of the Paralympic Games on 9 September 2012. For more information on the programme visit www.london2012.com/festival.

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In Progress: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion / Sou Fujimoto

In Progress: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion / Sou Fujimoto

Rocks And Ducks: A Mind-Blowing Stroll Through Kensington Park’s Serpentine Gallery

Sou Fujimoto To Design Serpentine Pavilion!

Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei to design Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012

Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei Reunite to Design Serpentine Gallery

Hans-Peter Feldmann 11 April – 3 June 2012

Yoko Ono 2012 exhibition announced