In the first part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with MPavilion, Dezeen is broadcasting a programme of video conversations between architects Amanda Levete, Bijoy Jain and Sean Godsell as well as curators Julia Peyton-Jones and Naomi Milgrom. Watch the videos from 9am UK time.
The programme of talks brings together the principals of the architecture firms behind Melbourne's yearly MPavilions ? a programme of annual summer pavilions in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation.
VDF's collaboration with MPavilion coincides with the launch of a book compiling the six MPavilions to date.
The book, titled MPavilion: Encounters with Design and Architecture, was to be launched at the Venice Architecture Biennale in May this year, but the event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. MPavilion's collaboration with VDF coincides with the release of a book collecting all of the contributions to the architectural commission to date
The videos feature a series of conversations between architects including Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of Rotterdam firm OMA, Amanda Levete of London practice AL_A, Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai, Carme Pinós of Barcelona-based Estudio Carme Pinós, and Australian architects Glenn Murcutt and Sean Godsell.
These conversations follow a discussion between Naomi Milgrom, founder of the MPavilion initiative, and Julia Peyton-Jones, former director of the Serpentine Gallery in London and instigator of th...