Amanda in conversation with Sean Godsell and Bijoy Jain

In celebrating the upcoming book release MPavilion: Encounters with Design and Architecture, MPavilion has partnered with Dezeen’s Virtual Design Festival to present ‘MPavilion Day’. The takeover will feature guests from around the world, who will discuss the power of design to shape cities, societies and people, and consider what it means to create in the face of a global pandemic.

The series of conversations will include the architects MPavilion commissioned to create the last six MPavilions; Sean Godsell, Amanda Levete, Bijoy Jain, Rem Koolhaas, David Gianotten, Carme Pinós and Glenn Murcutt.

On Thursday at 10am, Amanda’s conversations with Sean Godsell and Bijoy Jain will be published on Dezeen.

MPavilion is Australia’s leading architecture commission, and a cultural laboratory for the community to engage and share. Every year since 2014 The Naomi Milgrom Foundation commissions an architect to design a pavilion in the centre of Melbourne’s Southbank Arts Precinct.

In 2015, AL_A collaborated with yacht fabricator ShapeShift to employ the boundary-pushing technology of composite materials to create their MPavilion canopy, which is made up by a number of seemingly fragile, translucent petals supported by impossibly slender columns that gently sway in the breeze. The pavilion structure responds to the climate and the landscape, exploiting the nature of the pavilion form and producing a design that speaks in response to the weather.