Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009
Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA
12 July – 18 October
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Jinhua Architecture Park, China
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The project’s concept expands on an important confluence between the book and architecture in Chinese history: in the third century B.C.E., a descendant of the philosopher Confucius concealed several of his texts in a wall when the emperor ordered all Confucian writings burned. From this historic juncture of books and building, the pavilion’s form pulls its central wall outward into two unequal, cantilevered arms, each concealing within a public space for learning.
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