KQED —"'Pavilions' Offers a Primer on Structures Built for Pure Pleasure"

San Francisco's KQED reviews our work at the Museum of Craft and Design.

Read the article here.

"Guest curator Mariah Nielson follows the evolution of seven architectural practices from early pavilions into larger commissions and projects, each time identifying an experimental material or method that worked its way into a more permanent form.

A prime example: SITU, a studio based in Brooklyn, shows part of one of their earliest projects, Solar Pavilion 2, an improvised assembly of notched laminated plywood. Like a set of wacky, zig-zagged Lincoln Logs, any one part of the structure can be notched together with any other part of the structure. The studio still uses this organizational flexibility and emphasis on organic, community-driven construction to inform their practice today, even while tackling big picture projects like New York City’s rapid growth...."