Two weeks ago, a translucent pod of glass-reinforced plastic, poised atop enormous sandstone boulders, appeared on a curve of lawn in Kensington Gardens in London. The folly [...] is by the Chilean architect Smiljan Radic, whom the nearby Serpentine Galleries chose to create a temporary structure in its front yard. It is the 14th year that the museum has commissioned a Serpentine Pavilion, always turning to an architect who has not previously built in Britain [...]. — nytimes.com
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"A Rock Star Among Architects"
By comparing architects to rock stars are we taking the focus off of the work and placing it too much on the personality/style/sex-appeal of individuals?
The headline is a reference to the rock-like forms of his architecture.
You’ve used the term “boulder architecture” for your work. What is it about rocks that interests you?
haha..
Of course it is. Sorry about that.
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