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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond with Arup

A lesson in imagination from a Japanese master

Serpentine Pavilion

12 Jul 2002 to 29 Sep 2002

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond with Arup

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The design of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond was based on an algorithm of a cube.

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The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 appeared to be an extremely complex random pattern that proved, upon careful examination, to derive from an algorithm of a cube that expanded as it rotated. The numerous triangles and trapezoids formed by this system of intersecting lines were clad to be either transparent or translucent, giving a sense of infinitely repeated motion.

'Why can't all new buildings be this good? Toyo Ito's magical summer pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery is a lesson in imagination' - Evening Standard

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Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito was born on June 1, 1941 in Seoul, Korea. He began working in the firm of Kiyonori Kikutake & Associates after he graduated from Tokyo University’s Department of Architecture in 1965. By 1971, he was ready to start his own studio in Tokyo, and named it Urban Robot (Urbot). In 1979, he changed the name to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects. He has received numerous international awards, including in 2010, the 22nd Praemium Imperiale in Honor of Prince Takamatsu; in 2006, The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal; and in 2002, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 8th Venice Biennale International Exhibition. He has been a guest professor at the University of Tokyo, Columbia University, the University of California, Los Angeles, Kyoto University, Tama Art University, and in the spring semester of 2012, he hosted an overseas studio for Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the first in Asia. He holds Honorary Fellowships in the American Institute of Architects, Royal Institute of British Architects, the Architecture Institute of Japan, the Tokyo Society of Architects and Building Engineers, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. One of his first projects in 1971 was a home in a suburb of Tokyo. Called “Aluminum House,” the structure consisted of wooden frame completely covered in aluminum. Most of his early works were residences. In 1976, he produced a home for his sister, who had recently lost her husband. The house was called “White U” and generated a great deal of interest in Ito’s works. The Mediatheque, completed in 2001 in Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan, led to projects throughout Asia, Europe, North America and South America. Ito designed the Main Stadium for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung and the Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, both in Taiwan. Recently, Ito has also thought of his legacy, as apparent by the museum of architecture that bears his name on the small island of Omishima in the Seto Inland Sea. Also designed by Ito, the museum opened in 2011 and showcases his past projects as well as serving as a workshop for young architects. Two buildings comprise the complex, the main building “Steel Hut” and the nearby “Silver Hut,” which is a recreation of the architect’s former home in Tokyo, built in 1984.

Cecil Balmond

Cecil Balmond is an internationally renowned designer, structural engineer, author and Deputy Chairman of the international, multi-disciplinary engineering firm Arup. He has held several distinguished visiting professorships at leading universities in the United States and Britain: Saarinen Professor at Yale University, Kenzo Tange Visiting Critic at Harvard's School of Design, visiting professor at the London School of Economics, and most recently the Graham Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He received the Gengo Matsui Prize in 2002, which is the highest recognition for structural engineering given in Japan, and the Charles Jencks Award for Theory in Practice of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2003. This spring he gave the Felix Candela lectures at the Museum of Modern Art and had an exhibition of his work at the arc en rêve centre d'architecture in Bordeaux, France. He is the author ofInformal (Prestel, 2002), Number Nine (Prestel, 1998) and co-authoredSerpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 with Toyo Ito (Telescoweb.com, Japan), andUnfolding with Daniel Liebeskind (NAI, 1997).

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A lesson in imagination from a Japanese master

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 Designed by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond, with Arup

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 designed by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond - with Arup

2002
Serpentine Gallery, London (12 July – 29 September 2002)

Photograph © 2002 Sylvain Deleu

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 Designed by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond, with Arup

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 designed by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond - with Arup

2002
Serpentine Gallery, London (12 July – 29 September 2002)

Photograph © 2002 Sylvain Deleu

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 Designed by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond, with Arup

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 designed by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond - with Arup

2002
Serpentine Gallery, London (12 July – 29 September 2002)

Photograph © 2002 Nick Guttridge/VIEW

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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 designed by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond - with Arup

Serpentine Gallery, London (12 July – 29 September 2002)

Photograph © 2007 Sylvain Deleu

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