Issue 2: Pavilions

Edited by Joel Robinson.

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Introduction

Big worlds under little tents

JOEL ROBINSON

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Historical Themes and Contexts

‘Not months but moments’: ephemerality, monumentality, and the pavilion in ruins

IHOR JUNYK

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At the bottom of the garden: the Caffeaus of Villa Albani

JANE LOMHOLT

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Folkloric modernism: Venice’s Giardini Della Biennale and the geopolitics of architecture

JOEL ROBINSON

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From the world’s fair to Disneyland: pavilions as temples

JAIMEE K. COMSTOCK-SKIPP

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The Markham Moor papilio: a picturesque commentary

KAROLINA SZYNALSKA

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The Architecture of Display

On Penelope Curtis’ Patio and Pavilion: The Place of Sculpture in Modern Architecture

BRIAN HATTON

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Fascism, middle class ideals, and holiday villas at the 5th Milan Triennale

FLAVIA MARCELLO

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‘A bazaar in the Coliseum’: marketing Southeast Asian handicrafts in New York, 1956

JENNIFER WAY

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Pavilioning Manchester: boundaries of the local, national and global at the Asia Triennial

BECCY KENNEDY

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Haiti’s first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale: anachronism or illuminating opportunity?

WENDY ASQUITH

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The Dallas Pavilion: contemporary art and urban identity

JASPAR JOSEPH-LESTER AND MICHAEL CORRIS

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Contemporary Projects

‘A glimpse of another world’: Zaha Hadid’s Mobile Art Pavilion (MAP)

SOPHIE KAZAN

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The Donkey Institute of Contemporary Art (DICA): a photo-essay

YAM LAU

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Electronic textiles for architecture

SARAH BONNEMAISON

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The playful Ping-Pong Pavilion: learning from risky experimentation in real time

HARRIET HARRISS

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Deconstructing the Children’s Art Pavilion

CHRIS TUCKER

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Afterword

After word, thought, life: a stroll in Parisian parks

MICHAELA GIEBELHAUSEN

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