At the end of November, London’s Serpentine announced that Paris-based, Beirut-born architect Lina Ghotmeh will design the 2023 pavilion. Ghotmeh, who founded her multidisciplinary practice Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture in 2016, undertakes site-specific, socially informed projects at the intersection of art and architecture.
Ghotmeh’s pavilion, À table, alludes to the French tradition of communing over a meal and invites engagement by offering ample tableside seating for visitors to “eat, work, play, meet, talk, rethink, and decide.” In a statement, the architect called the design “an encouragement to enter into dialogue, to convene, and to think about how we could reinstate and re-establish our relationship to nature and the Earth.” After its time as the annual temporary Serpentine Pavilion, it will be possible to rebuild the dismountable timber structure, giving the pavilion a potential second life elsewhere. The low, pleated roof is meant to evoke the togu’na huts of the Dogon people in Mali, West Africa, as well as the structure of tree leaves and canopies, according to the architect.
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