The Utility of the Pavilion in Architecture

The pavilion has a certain usefulness in terms of at a kind of crass and superficial level, raising the property values of a particular site. There's also this really rich tradition of pavilions in architecture as a means of very quickly and sketchily foreshadowing certain attitudes in design or certain sensibilities that may be more difficult to actualize through a prominent project. And I think for me what's most exciting about these examples is that the real utility of the pavilion is to make sense of the current moment we're living in. The distance from thinking to making, from thinking to drawing to making is so close-coupled. These are not projects that can sort of formalize