XPOSITIONS
XPOSITIONS: Pavilion Dialogues
Studio Link-Arc
Actar, June 2018
Paperback | 7-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches | 176 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1945150623 | $39.95
Publisher Description:
In May 2015, Studio Link-Arc completed its most prominent work to date, the China Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015. The project was China?s first free-standing Expo Pavilion outside of its own borders. XPOSITIONS is not conceived as a monograph that focuses on one project. Instead, it carefully examines the larger ideas woven into the design of the China Pavilion and explores their implications for design and global culture. In addition to presenting the story of the project?from conception through construction and occupancy?the book addresses the larger design forces at play via discussions with key figures in the architecture community: Stefano Boeri, Xiangning Li, and Daniel Libeskind.dDAB Commentary: One of the most photogenic pavilions at the Expo 2015 in Milan was the China Pavilion designed by the Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University and New York's Studio Link-Arc. The team conceived of the pavilion as "a field of spaces located beneath a floating cloud." The roof, serving as the cloud surrogate, was the most striking formal aspect of the pavilion, undulating gently toward the Expo's main circulation spine and stepping sharply, like a city skyline, at the other end. Made of latticed bamboo panels above glulam beams and a translucent membrane, the roof filtered light to the...
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