The Melbourne MPavilion is an initiative of the Naomi Milgrom foundation that has been commissioned by an architect for five years. A proposal that emulates the achievements that each year are proposed by the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, in London. The Barcelona architect is the first Spanish woman to carry out a public work in Australia.
It is a temporary pavilion in the Queen Victoria Gardens that for four months, from October 9, 2018 to February 3, 2019, in the main park of the city, aims to become a public space that encourages debate.

The 2017 MPavilion was the work of OMA by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten

The sculptural design of Carme Pinós consists of an open intervention, composed of two pieces supported by a central steel structure. Two large areas of wood slats intersect to form the roof, generating an open space that connects the MPavilion with the city. The structure reminds folded forms of origami, facilitating the relationships between the material, the environment and the human scale. The topographic alterations form three mounds where the stands are located.
 
"The MPavilion 2018 is a space designed for people to experience with all their senses; to establish a relationship with nature, but also for social activities. I try to design places where movements and roads intersect and exchange; spaces in which people identify themselves as part of a community, but at the same time feel that they belong to universality," said Carme Pinós.

The election of the program of activities that, under the thematic axis "Women leaders", will gather up to February in this space to outstanding intellectuals and professionals of the world of the architecture, the show, the fashion, the science, the art, the technology and the music.
 
In the words of Naomi Milgrom, creator of the foundation that bears her name and that annually commissioned the design of the MPavilion, "Carme Pinós' philosophy of commitment to the community reflects very well the mission of the MPavilion to facilitate a meaningful dialogue on paper. of design and architecture, and what it means to promote socially inclusive cities in the context of design and the built environment".

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Carme Pinós i Desplat graduated with a degree in architecture from the school of Architecture in Barcelona (ETSAB) in 1979. In the mid 1980s the architectural proposals she developed in partnership with Enric Miralles obtained recognition in several architectural competitions. In 1991 she set up her own studio and since then she has combined her activity as an architect with teaching as a guest professor at different universities such as the Graduate Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation de Columbia University (1999), the École Polytechnique Féderale of Lausanne (2001-02), the Graduate  School of Design of Harvard University (2003), the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (2005-06) o la Universitá di Roma Tre (2007-08).

Her built work and projects have been exhibited at several galleries and museums. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris hold models of her projects in their permanent collections. Her work has been published in several monographs (Actar, 1998: Monacelli Press 2004; “Documentos de Arquitectura”, nº 60, 2006). In 2008 she received the National Prize for Architecture and Urban Space from the Catalan Government in recognition of her entire professional career.

 

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