Der Pavilion/The Pavilion: Lust Und Polemik in Der Architektur/Pleasure and Polemics in Architecture

by Schmal, Peter Cachola

• ISBN13: 9783775724944
• ISBN10: 377572494X
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-31
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

The Pavilionexamines both the history and the contemporary state of pavilion architecture, something of a niche genre in the field, but with a long history of masterpieces. It consists of two parts: first, the examination of a group of twentieth-century pavilions, and second, a collection of essays that survey historical and more recent examples. This outstanding analysis was produced by students of architecture at Frankfurt's Stadelschule. In the theoretical section, well-known authors discuss the materials used in pavilions, starting with influences from the Orient, India and Asia, and moving on to significant twentieth-century pavilions and recent temporary buildings that seem to occupy a space between art and architecture. In addition, the book documents the research and development of a summer pavilion for the garden at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt produced by the offices of Barkow Leibinger and Werner Sobek.