Junya Ishigami’s Design At The 2019 Serpentine Pavilion
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Japanese architect Junya Ishigami was selected to design the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion. His finished work is on view at the Serpentine Gallery's lawn in Kensington Gardens through October 6, 2019.Known for creating experimental structures that interpret traditJunya Ishigami’s Design At The 2019 Serpentine Pavilion
Japanese architect Junya Ishigami was selected to design the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion. His finished work is on view at the Serpentine Gallery's lawn in Kensington Gardens through October 6, 2019.Known for creating experimental structures that interpret traditional architectural conventions and simultaneously reflect natural phenomena, Ishigami’s design for the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion is based on roofs, the most common architectural feature used around the world. It has been designed and constructed by arranging slates to create a single canopy roof that appears to emerge out of the ground. Inside the pavilion is an enclosed cave-like space, a place for thinking. “For Ishigami, the pavilion articulates his ‘free space’ philosophy in which he seeks harmony between man-made structures and those that already exist in nature,” the gallery says.Ishigami is the 19th architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary pavilion on the Serpentine Gallery’s lawn in Kensington Gardens. The commissions began in 2000 with Zaha Hadid. In the recent past, it has become a highly anticipated platform for emerging talent, from Frida Escobedo of Mexico to Francis Kere of Burkina Faso and Bjarke Ingels of Denmark. Ingels 2016 pavilion was the most visited architectural and design exhibition in the world.Describing his design, Ishigami said, “My design for the pavilion plays with our perspectives of the built environment against the backdrop of a natural landscape, emphasizing a natural and organic feel as though it had grown out of the lawn, resembling a hill made out of rocks. This is an attempt to supplement traditional architecture with modern methodologies and concepts, to create in this place an expanse of scenery like never seen before.”Junya Ishigami (b. 1974) worked as an architect at SANAA before founding the Junya Ishigami + Associates in 2004. He won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2010 and was the subject of a major and critically acclaimed solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in 2018 that is traveling to the Power Station of Art in Shanghai later this year.The 2019 Serpentine Pavilion is on view through October 6, 2019, at the Serpentine Gallery’s lawn in Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA, UK.For details, visit: https://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/1203380/1433933/home-overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the 2019 Pavilion.https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more