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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005
Author(s) -
Melvin Jeremy
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.185
Subject(s) - pavilion , architecture , art history , portuguese , art , engineering , architectural engineering , civil engineering , visual arts , philosophy , linguistics
Abstract The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is a unique programme that commissions architecture for art's sake. It provides innovative architects, who have not previously built in the UK, with the opportunity to design a cutting‐edge structure for a summer show. Jeremy Melvin describes how Portuguese masters Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura, in collaboration with Cecil Balmond of Arup, have produced ‘an urban design’ that is perfectly calibrated to respond to its Hyde Park setting. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.