Comments on: Saana Pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/saana-pavilion-at-the-serpentine-gallery/ Gardenvisit.com Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:33:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Jean Nouvel Serpentine Pavilion and Garden 2010 | Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog – Gardenvisit.com https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/saana-pavilion-at-the-serpentine-gallery/#comment-1098 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:33:41 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2636#comment-1098 […] of the Gardenvisit blog’s comments on the 2010 Serpentine Pavilion. We remarked that ‘the Serpentine Gallery has a better opportunity to promote garden and landscape design than any othe…‘. It is great that the Serpentine Gallery is moving in this direction – but I think […]

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/saana-pavilion-at-the-serpentine-gallery/#comment-1097 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:34:16 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2636#comment-1097 I 200% agree about the Mies van der Rohe pavilion, both regarding its beauty and its influence – and that neither would have been so great if it were not a fabulous combination of indoor and outdoor design http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/mies_van_der_rohe_pavilion . The world would have better cities if this example had attracted more followers. I don’t know what went wrong. Was it the baleful influence of concrete, Walter Gropius, wartime economy or highway engineers?

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/saana-pavilion-at-the-serpentine-gallery/#comment-1096 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:12:12 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2636#comment-1096 Fantastic idea! I hope the Director and Trustees of the Serpentine Gallery are equally as enthusiastic….

The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies Van der Rohe must be the most successful and influential pavilion design I know. It still inspires and takes your breath away….[ http://www.channel4.com/4homes/architecture/our-favourite-buildings/george-clarke-s-five-favourite-buildings-08-10-22_p_3.html ]

The key words are simplicity and beauty. The simplicity and beauty provide a marriage between the architecture and the formal landscape setting. It is designed in such an astounding way that the design is invisible!

Mies according to Therese O’Malley and Marc Treib in ‘Regional garden design in the United States’ was responsible for a new conception in interior and exterior spatial relationships(p24);

“Emphasising the plane rather than the mass, and reducing the number of firm corners, the architect had effectively effaced the distinction between interior room and exterior courtyard.”

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