This year's winning Serpentine Pavilion, designed by BIG, came with an architectural posse—for the first time in the Serpentine Pavilion's history, the annual competition also featured four "Summer Houses" designed by other international architects. The pavilion and summer houses open to the public tomorrow on the Serpentine Galleries' lawn in London's Royal Kensington Gardens, and we discuss our initial take on their at once surprising and familiar elements.
Get briefed on the pavilion and the summer houses with Robert Urquhart's coverage here.
Listen to episode 67 of Archinect Sessions, "Twists and Turns":
Shownotes:
Donna's endorsement: The "not another architect movie" thread
Ken's endorsement: Archinect's Travel Guide, with throwbacks to Archinect's summer travel blogs and the Archinect Travels! series
Amelia's endorsement: Nicholas Korody's piece, "If houses had airplane modes: an interview with Joseph Grima of Space Caviar"
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Are those Travel series videos ever going to be bundled and sold on DVD or available for streaming again? So good... Big ups Marlin!
Strangely, I can't find the zen story I reference in the episode. Nam, have you heard this? I heard it from my husband, who heard it from his mentor Richard DeVore, the ceramic artist.
A person goes to a calligraphy master and says I want to commission you to do a calligraphy of my name. The master says “Yes, I will, come back in one year.” The person comes back in a year and the master says “It’s not ready yet, come back in one year.” This happens over and over for ten years. After ten years the person comes in and requests the calligraphy. The master pulls out a sheet of paper and in one stroke draws a beautiful rendition of the person’s name. The person immediately recognizes the beauty and skill of the stroke, but feels frustrated that it only took the master one minute to make this masterwork. The person says “This is beautiful, but you did it in just a few seconds! Why did I have to wait so long for this, what have you been doing for the last ten years?!” The master stands up, opens a screen wall behind him, and shows the person a large warehouse full of millions of discarded papers, each with the person’s name on it, and says: “Practicing.”
@Donna, funny. I haven't heard that zen version. However, have heard a a similar story within Vedic/Indian tradition.
Short version; a mother has a son who is eating sweets/enjoying his senses too much. She takes son to guru to learn self-control/discipline. He says come back tomorrow and the dance continues for some time. Eventually one day, he provides instructions to the son. The punch line is similar to yours. Something to the effect of, "I had to learn first myself"...
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