Summer Shows and exhibitions

This is the time to visit the summer shows. In London the RCA, AA and Westminster shows are now on and the Bartlett show starts on the 1st July.

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is also still open until 15th August, and also at the Royal Academy is an exhibition of recent work by Morphosis until 18th September (see image above). All well worth a visit for inspiration.

Peter Zumthor's Serpentine Pavilion

Peter Zumthor's first building in the UK, the 2011 Serpentine Pavilion, is now complete and has been open to the press. It opens to the public on the 1st July. The Guardian report that Peter Zumthor said at the opening: "This should be an escape, a place where nature is framed and compressed....Make of it what you like. There is no hidden, or even obvious, meaning here. This is a place for you to be. To be. Nothing else." Zumthor's written statement also said: "Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings – sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time." Read the full article here.