The Serpentine Galleries has announced a new process for the selection of architects for its successful Summer Serpentine Pavilion program.

Images by Hélène Binet, Sylvain Deleu, John Offenbach, Luke Hayes, Claire Byrne, Iwan Baan, Neil MacWilliams, George Rex, NAARO, and Laurian Ghinitoiu

The Serpentine Galleries has announced a new process for the selection of architects for its successful Summer Serpentine Pavilion program.For the event?s first 16 years, the annual commissions were selected by program founder and former Serpentine Galleries director Julia Peyton-Jones, who left her position earlier this year to pursue independent contemporary art and architecture projects. Replacing her are the Serpentine Galleries new CEO Yana Peel and Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist, who will lead an advisory board featuring architects Richard Rogers and David Adjaye.
?Vision for Madrid?, Spain, 1992. Image © Zaha Hadid Architects. Courtesy of Serpentine Galleries

Beginning with the 2017 edition, a group of architects will be invited to submit designs for the main pavilion and new summer house series, from which the advisory board will select the winning proposals. The chosen architects are expected to be announced early next year.The new format comes as part of a newly announced initiative to expand gallery outreach through an expansion of the exhibition slate and a new emphasis on ?artists, audiences, technology, partnerships, innovation and acces...