Skrevet af VAN SCHAIK
Around the world, a new architectural form is emerging. In public places
a progressive architecture is being commissioned to promote openended,
undetermined, lightly programmed or unprogrammed interactions between
people. This new phenomenon of architectural form Pavilions, PopUps and
Parasols is presaged by rapidly changing social relationships flowing
from social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The nexus
between real and virtual meeting is effectively being reinvented by
innovative and creative architectural practices. People meet in new and
responsive ways, architects meet their clients in new forums, knowledge
is met and achieved in new and interactive frameworks. It contrasts
bluntly with the commercially structured interactions of shopping malls
and the increasingly deliberate interactions available in cultural
institutions. These experiences imbue a new type of client; casually
engaged, flocking, hacking, crowd funding and selfhelping.
Contributors include: Rob Bevan, Pia EdnieBrown, Roan ChingYueh, Dan
Hill, Martyn Hook, Minsuk Cho, Andrea Kahn, Felicity Scott, Akira Suzuki
Contributing architects include: Alisa Andrasek/Biothing, Peter
Cook/CRAB studio, CJ Lim/Studio 8, Tom Holbrook/5th Studio, Matthias
Hollwich/HWKN, MamouMani Architects, Benedetta Tagliabue/EMBT
