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The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 is designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He is the thirteenth and, at 41, the youngest architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery.

The most ambitious architectural programme of its kind worldwide, the Serpentine’s annual Pavilion commission is one of the most anticipated events on the cultural calendar. Past Pavilions have included designs by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Frank Gehry (2008), Oscar Niemeyer (2003) and Zaha Hadid, who designed the inaugural structure in 2000.

Widely acknowledged as one of the most important architects coming to prominence worldwide, Sou Fujimoto is the leading light of an exciting generation of architects who are re-inventing our relationship with the built environment. Inspired by organic structures, such as the forest, Fujimoto’s signature buildings inhabit a space between nature and artificiality. Fujimoto has completed the majority of his buildings in Japan, with commissions ranging from the domestic, such as Final Wooden House, T House and House N, to the institutional, such as the Musashino Art Museum and Library at Musashino Art University.

Occupying some 357 square-metres of lawn in front of the Serpentine Gallery, Sou Fujimoto’s delicate, latticed structure of 20mm steel poles has a lightweight and semi-transparent appearance that allows it to blend, cloud-like, into the landscape against the classical backdrop of the Gallery’s colonnaded East wing. Designed as a flexible, multi-purpose social space – with a café run for the first time by Fortnum and Mason inside – visitors will be encouraged to enter and interact with the Pavilion in different ways throughout its four-month tenure in London's Kensington Gardens.

Fujimoto is the third Japanese architect to accept the invitation to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, following Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito in 2002 and Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA in 2009.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013<br />Photo Iwan Baan  [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
Photo Iwan Baan [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013<br />Photo Iwan Baan  [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
Photo Iwan Baan [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013<br />Photo Iwan Baan  [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
Photo Iwan Baan [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013<br />Photo Iwan Baan  [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
Photo Iwan Baan [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Concept Sketch - Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013<br />Sou Fujimoto  [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Concept Sketch - Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
Sou Fujimoto [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Sou Fujimoto<br />Photo David Vintiner  [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Sou Fujimoto
Photo David Vintiner [Serpentine Gallery Press]

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 designed by Sou Fujimoto

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