Research Catalog

Title

Francis Kere : Serpentine Pavilion 2017 / editors Melissa Blanchflower with Joseph Constable.

Publication

London : Koenig Books ; Serpentine Galleries, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blanchflower, Melissa
• Constable, Joseph

Description

159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm

Summary

Diébédo Francis Kéré, the award-winning architect from Gando, Burkina Faso, has been commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2017, responding to the brief with a bold, innovative structure that brings his characteristic sense of light and life to the lawns of Kensington Gardens. Kéré is the seventeenth architect to accept the Serpentine Galleries' invitation to design a temporary Pavilion in its grounds. Since its launch in 2000, this annual commission of an international architect to build his or her first structure in London at the time of invitation has become one of the most anticipated events in the global cultural calendar and a leading visitor attraction during London's summer season. Inspired by the tree that serves as a central meeting point for life in his home town of Gando, Francis Kéré has designed a responsive Pavilion that seeks to connect its visitors to nature - and each other. An expansive roof, supported by a central steel framework, mimics a tree's canopy, allowing air to circulate freely while offering shelter against London rain and summer heat. As an architect, Kéré is committed to socially engaged and ecological design in his practice. Exhibition: Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (23.06.2017-08.10.2017).

Subjects

• Buildings, Temporary
• Pavilions
• Architectural design > England > London > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Architects > Africa > Exhibitions
• Buildings, Temporary > England > London > Exhibitions
• Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (Architecture programme) (17th : 2017 : London, England)
• Kéré, Diébédo Francis, 1965-
• Pavilions > England > London > Exhibitions
• England > London
• Kéré Architecture

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published to accompany the Serpentine Pavilion 2017 designed by Francis Kéré 23 June - 8 October 2017.

Contents

Architect's statement / Francis Kéré -- Gathering form: making a building, building a community / Jeanne Gang -- Le Brouhaha / Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Francis Kéré -- Warp, weft, wend / Lesley Lokko -- A great struggle / Kerry James Marshall and Francis Kéré -- Breaking the pattern of weakness / Mohsen Mostafavi -- Transference / David Adjaye in conversation with Francis Kéré -- Photo-essay: Serpentine Pavilion 2017 / Iwan Baan -- Biographies.

Call Number

Sc F 18-293

ISBN

• 9783960981596
• 3960981597
• 9781908617453
• 1908617454

OCLC

1008172110

Title

Francis Kere : Serpentine Pavilion 2017 / editors Melissa Blanchflower with Joseph Constable.

Publisher

London : Koenig Books ; Serpentine Galleries, 2017.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Blanchflower, Melissa, editor.

Constable, Joseph, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc F 18-293