This book features the experimental pavilion projects carried out by the Architectural Association’s Intermediate Unit 2 over the past six years. Structured to follow a year in the life of the unit, this book presents the processes of the pavilions’ design and production, from concept ideas to workshop fabrication. Essays by the unit’s tutors, Charles Walker and Martin Self, explain the ambitions and pedagogic basis of the programme, rooted in the idea of experiential learning. Through the voices of students, tutors and anonymous critics, both the educational validity of this innovative design-build programme and its architectural output is explored.

9781902902821, 2011
17 × 25cm, illustrated, 184pp, paperback