Pavilions, Pop Ups and Parasols: The Impact of Real and Virtual Meeting on Physical Space

Editorial 05
Helen Castle

About the Guest-Editors 06
Leon van Schaik and Fleur Watson

Introduction

Pavilions, Pop-Ups and Parasols: Are They Platforms for Change? 08
Leon van Schaik

In the Pursuit of Pleasure: The Not So Fleeting Life of the Pavilion and its Ilk 16
Robert Bevan

Castles and Pavilions: Creating New Hybrid Places of Exchange 26
Tom Holbrook

A Sketchbook for the City to Come: The Pop-Up as R&D 32
Dan Hill

10 Folly Variations: The Time-Specific Architecture of Mass Studies 40
Minsuk Cho

100 Year City (Maribor): The Virtual Concourse Reframed 48
Fleur Watson

Not To Be Taken Seriously: Kiosks, Roadside Joys and Other Things That are Beneath Architectural Contempt 56
Peter Cook

Barcelona Reset: Circuit of Ephemeral Architecture 64
Benedetta Tagliabue

Building Community 72
Andrea Kahn

Global Village Media: Coming Together in the Early 1970s at Whiz Bang Quick City 78
Felicity D Scott

When a Tree House No Longer Says ‘House’, Are We Virtually There? 86
Akira Suzuki

Agents for Urban Food Education and Security 92
CJ Lim

Architecture of the Occasion 100
Pia Ednie-Brown

Indeterminacy and Contingency: The Seroussi Pavilion and Bloom by Alisa Andrasek 106
Alisa Andrasek

Urban Phenomenon: Guerilla Architecture in Taipei 112
Roan Ching-Yueh

The Affirmative Qualities of a Temporal Architecture 118
Martyn Hook

Lasting Impressions: Pop-Up Culture by HWKN 124
Matthias Hollwich

Entrepreneur Makers: Digitally Crafted, Crowdfunded Pavilions 130
Arthur Mamou-Mani and Toby Burgess

Counterpoint From the Subversive to the Serious: Temporary Urbanism as a Positive Force 136
Peter Bishop

Contributors 142