#monographic #architecture | 2G 85 | Leopold Banchini

Leopold Banchini / introductions by Noura Al Sayeh Holtrop and Bruther ; conversation with Jacques Lucan ; photographs by Dylan Perrenoud.
Cologne : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König , 2022.
158 p. : il.
Serie: 2G ; 85.
/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Leopold Banchini Architects

📕 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783753300023
Cita APA-7: Al Sayeh Holtrop, Noura [et al.] (2022). Leopold Banchini. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König.
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-72(082) *DOS/85
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1345278335

[.en] Leopold Banchini Architects is an architectural studio based in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 2017 by Leopold Banchini, after being part of Bureau A for three years. The office is a multidisciplinary research team exploring the frontiers of space shaping. Deeply rooted in architectural history, it is interested as well in contemporary popular cultures as in vernacular traditions and crafts. His work has been built in countries as Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal, Bahrain, and Australia.

#monographic #architecture | 2G 84 | MOS

MOS / [texts by Stan Allen and Giovanna Borasi].
Cologne : Verlag der Buchhandlung W. Konig, 2022.
160 p. : il.
Serie: 2G ; 84.
/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura - Siglo XXI / MOS

📕 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783960989646 / 9783960989639
Cita APA-7: Allen, Stan, & Borasi, Giovanna (2022). MOS. Verlag der Buchhandlung w.
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-72(082) *DOS/84
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1333264276

[.en] This 2G monograph celebrates the craft and ingenuity of MOS, the Harlem-based architecture and design studio founded by Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith in 2005. Recipient of the 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture, MOS is responsible for a variety of international projects, from private residences to art studios and community centers, which draw on and combine a consistent vocabulary of readily identifiable shapes from its own architectural catalog--chimneys, corridors, courtyards, roofs, windows. Recent projects include the Huyghe + Le Corbusier Puppet Theater at Harvard's Carpenter Center; Artist Studio in Ancram, New York; the Floating House in Lake Huron, Ontario; the Welcome and Education Center, Apan Housing Laboratory in Apan, Mexico; and the IVY Coathook System. This volume looks at a representative sampling of its acclaimed projects from the past two decades.

The New York architecture office MOS, founded by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, is one of the few in the United States that manages to build a quality work from their almost artisanal office structure. Their architecture’s intention is not to programmatically experiment with social norms, wanting to use architecture to directly intervene or facilitate interactions between neighbors or occupants. MOS’s projects are built through combining and aggregating a multiplicity of architectural elements: chimneys, corridors, courtyards, roofs, windows, etc. Their work is partially self-referential, drawing on a consistent set of elements, ideas, and characteristics from their own architectural catalogue. This 2G issue include their last works of the office together with two texts by the architect and critic Stan Allen and by Giovanna Borasi, director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal.

#books #architecture | Visiting : Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller : Berlin 1966-89

Visiting : Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller : Berlin 1966-89 / edited by Urban Fragment Observatory.
Koln : Buchhandlung Walter und Franz König, 2022
543 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Alemania / Arquitectura doméstica – Alemania / Inmuebles para vivienda – Alemania / Hinrich Baller / Inken Baller

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783753300528
Cita APA-7: Urban Fragment Observatory (2022). Visiting : Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller : Berlin 1966-89. Buchhandlung Walter und Franz König.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72BALLER VIS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1322961936

[.en] Although most of Inken and Hinrich Baller's buildings were developed within the tight constraints of the social housing program in West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, they always offer more than the standard: slenderness, lightness, large balconies, complex spatial relationships across multiple floors, and outdoor green spaces. With their unconventional residential and public buildings, the Ballers' creations are today as much as ever examples for high-quality and affordable housing and intriguing urban spaces. During visits with current residents of these buildings, photographs of the lively and lived- in architecture were taken. A collection of archive material, original plans and essays complement these images to present a complete picture of these multifaceted buildings. Accompanies the exhibition of the same name at Deutschen Architekturzentrum Berlin, 04 March - 24 April 2022.

#books #architecture | The urban fact : a reference book on Aldo Rossi

The urban fact : a reference book on Aldo Rossi / edited by Kersten Geers & Jelena Pančevac ; photography by Stefano Graziani.
Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2021.
260 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Aldo Rossi / Arquitectura – Siglo XX

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783960989769
Cita APA-7: Geers, Kersten, & Pančevac, Jelena (eds.) (2021). The urban fact : a reference book on Aldo Rossi. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72ROSSI URB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1280485510

[.en] ‘The Urban Fact’ examines Aldo Rossi’s formulation of a theory of the city, developed over the period of roughly ten years, from ‘Architecture of the City’ published in 1966, to ‘Analogous City’ exhibited in 1976. Rossi’s theory is not taken as an abstract argument, but is seen through his work from that period. A careful selection of twenty-three projects is presented here at face value. These projects, bound by the reality of their setting, but also charged with cultural and civic ambition, illustrate the intricacy of an architectural project as a complex “whole”. They also demonstrate how architecture could contribute to the changing urban context of the field, hinting at an oeuvre painfully aware of its limitations and stubborn in its intentions.

#monographic #architecture | 2G 82 | Ensamble Studio

Ensamble Studio / director and editor, Moisés Puente.
Cologne : Verlag der Buchhandlung und Franz König, 2021.
160 p. : il.
Serie: 2G ; 82.
/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Ensamble Studio

📕 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783960988069
Cita APA-7: Puente, Moisés (ed.) (2021). Ensamble Studio. Verlag der Buchhandlung und Franz König.
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-72(082) *DOS/82
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1260136000

[.en] Ensamble Studio, led by architects Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa, is a cross-functional team based in Spain and the United States that works across research, design, and construction to create innovative architecture by conducting experiments with their own hands and developing construction methods. They propose ways to build architecture and cities that respond to the needs of our times by integrating design and modern technology from global perspectives with the aim of improving the quality of human life. Their diverse undertakings range from landscape construction to prefabrication of houses. This book features eleven projects under the theme of "Architecture of the Earth," including their representative works "SGAE Headquarters" and "Structures of Landscape." The experiments and construction processes are documented through photographs, drawings, and texts, and their dynamic architecture is introduced through beautiful photographs. Ryue Nishizawa's contribution is definitely a must-read.

#monographic #architecture | 2G 81 | Brandlhuber+

Brandlhuber+ / text by Antje Stahl and a conversation with Nikolaus Kuhnert ; photographie by Erica Overmeer.
Cologne : Verlag der Buchhandlung und Franz König, [2021].
160 p. : il.
Serie: 2G ; 81.
/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Alemania / Brandlhuber

📕 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783960987154
Cita APA-7: Stahl, Antje, & Kuhnert, Nikolaus (2021). Brandlhuber+. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König.
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-72(082) *DOS/81
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1260136195

[.en] Brandlhuber+ is an architecture office founder in 2006 by Arno Brandlhuber and devoted to the idea of collaboration with other practices, disciplines, and individuals. This publication focuses exclusively on the practice of Arno Brandlhuber since he moved his studio from Cologne to Berlin, and features works as renowned as the Anti-Villa in Potsdam, the Rocha Villa in Uruguay or the Terrassenhaus in Berlin to the new unpublished villas in Sicily and the studio for an artist in Ninikowo, in Poland. Brandlhuber + is undoubtedly one of the most interesting contemporary architectural practices in Germany, and a key figure to understand the transformation processes of European cities. Arno Brandlhuber will be the chief curator of the German Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020.

#books #architecture | Alejandro de la Sota : in defence of a logical architecture and other essays

Alejandro de la Sota : in defence of a logical architecture and other essays / Moises Puente (ed.).
Köln : Buchhundlung Walther Konig, 2021.
144 p. : il.
Serie: 2G Essays.
/ EN / Libros / Alejandro de la Sota / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – España 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783960988755
Cita APA-7: Puente, Moisés (ed.). (2021). Alejandro de la Sota : in defence of a logical architecture and other essays. Buchhundlung Walther Konig.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72SOTA ALE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1246481851

[.en] Alejandro de la Sota is one of the great masters of modern Spanish architecture, designing ground-breaking buildings such as the Civil Government (Tarragona, 1957-1964) and the Maravillas School Gymnasium (Madrid, 1960-1962). In this compilation of his most important essays, he reflects on the legacy of the Modern Movement and its atypical implementation in the sad cultural panorama of Spain under the Franco regime. It can be read as a chronicle of the evolution of Spanish architecture from the 1950s until the architect’s death. “One day I stopped working and tried to think freely about what I, and others as well, were doing. That very day I began to shake off many of the additions that embraced all serious thought about architecture, clinging to it like veritable limpets, crustaceans. I found the clean outcome attractive, and I thought it could also be called Architecture, or perhaps architecture. I enjoyed that lower-case a, which sufficed to resolve the issue that architecture has always had to resolve: the organisation of the world in which we live our lives.”

#monographic #architecture | 2G 80 | Fala Atelier (Porto)

Fala Atelier (Porto) / director and editor, Moises Puente ; [texts by Tibor Joanelly, Pedro Bandeira, and Kersten Geers ; pohotgraphs by Ricardo Loureiro].
Köln : Walther König, 2019.
160 p. : il.
Serie: 2G Essays ; 80.
/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Portugal / Arquitectura doméstica – Portugal / Fala Atelier

📕 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783960985952
Cita APA-7: Puente, Moises (ed.) (2019). Fala Atelier (Porto). Walther König.
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-72(082) *DOS/80
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1146547557

[.en] Fala is a young architecture practice founded in 2013 in Porto, and led by Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares and Ahmed Belkhodja. Hedonistic yet restrained, the studio takes lightness and joy very seriously. Their projects can be characterized by a strong tendency towards autonomy, or better: towards an emerging independence of architectural language. Many of the refurbishment projects in Porto were initiated by private investors, trying to make a fortune by real estate speculation. After the economic crisis of 2008 the downtowns of Porto and Lisbon were confronted with a rampant boom in tourism. Speculation was propelled by special governmental measures such as the relief of a far-reaching protection against dismissal or the easy availability of golden visas. This may be the reason why some of Fala’s projects come across like topical declinations of the same program: separation of auxiliary functions from the main space, zoning of the plan, opening and staging of the view onto a small courtyard.

#monographic #architecture | 2G 79 | Muoto

Muoto / [texts by Fabrizio Gallanti, Gauthier Herrmann, and Muoto].
London : Koenig Books, [2019].
160 p. : il.
Serie: 2G ; 79.
ISBN 9783960985433
/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Francia / Mouto
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-72(082) *DOS/79
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1128186320

This issue of 2G is dedicated to the work of the French architecture studio Muoto. Studio Muoto´s activities cover the fields of architecture, urbanism, design and scientific research. Muoto means 'form' in Finnish. Muoto's work often features minimal structures made of rough materials, as a means to combine different activities, and merge economical as well as aesthetic issues. Vertical diversity as an articulation between building and city scales is a recurrent figure in Muoto's projects. The office has been rewarded by several prizes, such as Holcim Awards 2014, Equerre d'Argent 2016, and Bauwelt 2017.

#monographic #architecture | 2G 78 | Junya Ishigami

Junya Ishigami / director and editor Moisés Puente ; graphic design, RafamateoStudio ; translation Emma Cypher-Dournes & Beth Gelb, Paul Hammond ; poofreding Paul Hammond ; cover photograph, Satoru Emoto ; [texts by Kayoko Ota and Hans Ulrich Obrist].
London, England : Koenig, 2019.
160 p. : il.
Serie: 2G ; 78.
ISBN 9783960980964
/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Arquitectura del paisaje / Junya Ishigami
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-72(082) *DOS/78
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1104138901

The first time Junya Ishigami made himself known in Europe, with his proposal for the Japan Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008, he was a young an almost unknown architect who had worked for several years with Kazuo Sejima and had not long with his studio junya.ishigami +associates, founded in 2004. In the Venice pavilion, Ishigami filled all the interior walls of the pavilion with delicate a somehow naïf drawings of gardens and decided to build several greenhouses with real gardens in the outdoor gardens of the building. The following year, he finished the Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop, and with only two works he was acclaimed as one of the most innovative proposals of the recent Japanese architecture. Forcing the limits of transparency and lightness in the beginning, his latest works explore in a conceptual way the relationships between the built matter and the nature, in works such as the Botanical Farm Garden in Tochigi, a multi confessional chapel in China or the house and restaurant for a chef in Japan, where the exploration of the tectonic merges with the telluric and the nature.

#monographic #architecture | 2G 77 | Arrhov Frick

Arrhov Frick / [texts by Juhani Pallasmaa, Ilka and Andreas Ruby, Johan Linton ; photographs by Mikael Olsson ; translation, John Krause].
London, England : Koenig, 2018.
160 p. : il.
ISBN 9783960983507
Serie: 2G ; 77.
/ EN / Monográficos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Suecia / Arquitectura doméstica – Suecia / Arrhov Frick / Henrik Frick / Johan Arrhov
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-72(082) *DOS/77
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1085483512

The Swedish architectural office Arrhov Frick works with a diversity of projects and their ambition is to develop clear proposals based on a deep understanding of the specific social and economic contexts. Their projects reduce architecture to its fundamentals often with an emphasize on function, basic materials and structural economy. Many of their projects support flexible infrastructures that are capable of future iterations and uses, encouraging sustainability and longevity in the building industry. Introductions by Juhani Pallasmaa and Ilka and Andreas Ruby With a conversation with Johan Linton Photographs by Mikael Olsson.

Johan Arrhov (1979) and Henrik Frick (1977) received their masterʼs in architecture from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2007. Together they founded Arrhov Frick in 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. Carlos Nieto Cid (1977) became a partner in 2017. Among other honors and awards, Arrhov Frick was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016.

#books #architecture | Junya Ishigami : Serpentine Pavilion 2019

Junya Ishigami : Serpentine Pavilion 2019 / editors, Amira Gad, Natalia Grabowska.
London: Koenig Books, 2019.
268 p. : il.
ISBN 9783960986379
/ EN / Libros / Catálogos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Japón / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Gran Bretaña / Construcciones provisionales / Exposiciones – Construcciones / Jun’ya Ishigami / Serpentine Gallery (Londres)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-725.91 SER
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127909294

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the 19th Serpentine Pavilion designed by Junya Ishigami. The publication presents an overview of Ishigami’s past projects, together with an extensive documentation of sketches and research material for the Serpentine Pavilion. Isabelle Gaudefroy, Director of Programing at Fondation Cartier, introduces Ishigami’s projects from the past decades and makes connections between his past projects and the design for the Serpentine Pavilion. Beatrice Galilee has written about Ishigami’s key concepts and ideas that he has been exploring in his practice. An interview between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Junya Ishigami offers the unfiltered voice of the architect, in which he talks about past and future projects as well as architecture in general.

Ishigami’s design for the Serpentine Pavilion 2019 takes inspiration from roofs, the most common architectural feature used around the world.The design of pavilion is made by arranging slates to create a single canopy roof that appears to emerge from the ground of the surrounding park.Within, the interior of the Pavilion is an enclosed cave-like space, a refuge for contemplation. For Ishigami, the Pavilion articulates his ‘free space’ philosophy in which he seeks harmony between man-made structures and those that already exist in nature.

Imagen: Plataforma Arquitectura

DOCUMENTACIÓN
Junya Ishigami diseñará el Serpentine Pavilion 2019.
Katherine Allen | Plataforma Arquitectura, 2019-02-14
https://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/cl/911500/junya-ishigami-disenara-el-serpentine-pavilion-2019
El Serpentine Pavilion diseñado por Junya Ishigami toma forma en Londres.
Eric Baldwin | Plataforma Arquitectura, 2019-06-18
https://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/cl/919345/el-serpentine-pavilion-disenado-por-junya-ishigami-toma-forma-en-londres

#books #architecture | Mies van der Rohe : montage = collage

Mies van der Rohe : montage = collage / Herausgegeben von = edited by Andreas Beitin, Wolf Eiermann, Brigigitte Franzen.
Koenig Books, London : 2017.
263 p. : il.
Texto en inglés y alemán.
ISBN 9783960980537
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72MIES MIE
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1871030~S1*spi

Between 1910 and 1965, influenced by Dada, Constructivism and De Stijl, the German-American modernist polymath Mies van der Rohe created numerous montages and collages that endure as fascinating illustrations of the design principles of his architecture. However, these works—most of them large-format—are much more than sketches merely intended to assist his creative process as an architect. They are works of art in their own right that demonstrate his compositional vision in its purest form. Abrupt changes of viewpoint, freedom from perspective, place and time, montages of found elements and a focus on mixed media places him in the same context as his contemporaries Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Hans Richter and László Moholy-Nagy.

#monographic #architecture | 2G 75 | Amunt

Amunt / [texts by Christian Holl, Moritz Küng and Amunt ; photographs by Brigida Gonzalez and Filip Dujardin].
Koenig Books, London : 2017.
160 p. : il.
Colección: 2G ; 75.
ISBN 9783960980278
Amunt.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Alemania.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72(082) *DOS/75
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1870867~S1*spi

The latest in the 2G Architecture series focuses on the German based practice Amunt, winners of the German Architecture Prize in 2013. The work of architects Sonja Nagel, Jan Theissen and Björn Martenson, who since 2010 have worked under the name Amunt, can hardly be described as stringent or straightlined. Consisting for the most part of small houses, adaptations, extensions, interior fitting-outs and spatial interventions, their oeuvre is particularly interesting precisely because it is produced through a constant and intensive examination of everything that could be described as context, in the broadest sense of the term.

#monographic #architecture | 2G 74 | Harquitectes

Harquitectes / [texts by Ilka & Andreas Ruby, Javier García-Germán, Nexus texts by Harquitectes, interview with Felipe De Ferrari, Diego Grass ; photographs by Adrià Goula].
Koenig Books, London : 2016.
160 p. : principalmente il.
Colección: 2G ; 74.
ISBN 9783863359348
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Cataluña.
Harquitectes.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72(082) *DOS/74
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1865848~S1*spi

The architecture studio ‘Harquitectes’ was established in 2000 and based in Sabadell, Barcelona. It is managed by four partner architects: David Lorente Ibáñez, Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Xavier Ros Majó and Roger Tudó Galí. They have lectured all over Europe and America, and their works have been recognized with several awards and selected for exhibitions at home and abroad. They have addressed the parlous Spanish economy by adapting their work to any type of commission, from public buildings – such as schools and university facilities – to single-family houses. This publication represents the first comprehensive monograph on their work.

#monographic #architecture | 2G 73 | Studio Anne Holtrop

Studio Anne Holtrop / [texts by Valerio Olgiati, Giovanna Borasi, Maaike Lauwaert ; Nexus text by Anne Holtrop ; photographs by Bas Princen.].
Koenig Books, London : 2016.
160 p. : principalmente il.
Colección: 2G ; 73.
ISBN 9783863358723
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72(082) *DOS/73
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1849952~S1*spi

Until very recently, Anne Holtrop had only built a few small pavilions and various installations between art and architecture. Outside of conventional architectural circuit, and more related to the art installations, these extremely poetic pavilions consisted of small-scale spatial concepts and personal research on materials. However, the work of Holtrop took a leap of scale with two projects finished in 2015: the Museum Fort Vechten in Bunnik (near Utrecht, The Netherlands) and the National Pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain for the Milan Universal Exhibition of 2015. The former, a museum built within the enclosure of the New Hollandic Water Line fortifications, dug into the ground to create dark concrete walled galleries opening onto a courtyard artificial. The second, the National Pavilion of Bahrain is enclosed by a tall concrete wall that contains an interior maze of galleries, corridors and gardens.

#books #architecture | Serpentine Pavilion : Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Summer Houses : Kunlé Adeyemi (NLÉ), Yona Friedman, Asif Khan, Barkow Leibinger

Serpentine Pavilion : Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Summer Houses : Kunlé Adeyemi (NLÉ), Yona Friedman, Asif Khan, Barkow Leibinger / [editors, Amira Gad with Joseph Constable].
Serpentine Galleries ; Koenig Books, London : 2016.
181 p. : il.
Catálogo publicado para acompañar las exposiciones del pabellón de verano de la londinense Serpentine Gallery, 10 junio - 9 octubre de 2016.
ISBN 9781908617385 / 9783863359812
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Inglaterra.
BIG Bjarke Ingels Group
Exposiciones -- Construcciones.
Serpentine Gallery (Londres). Pavilion.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-725.91 SER
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1850359~S1*spi

The Serpentine Architecture Programme expands for 2016, with four Summer Houses joining the Serpentine Pavilion. The Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), is an 'unzipped wall' that is transformed from straight line to three-dimensional space, creating a dramatic structure that by day houses a café and free family activities and by night becomes a space for the Serpentine's acclaimed Park Nights programme of performative works by artists, writers and musicians. Kunlé Adeyemi's Summer House is an inverse replica of Queen Caroline's Temple - a tribute to its robust form, space and material, recomposed into a new sculptural object. Barkow Leibinger were inspired by another, now extinct, 18th Century pavilion also designed by William Kent, which rotated and offered 360 degree views of the Park. Yona Friedman's Summer House takes the form of a modular structure that can be assembled and disassembled in different formations and builds upon the architect's pioneering project La Ville Spatiale (Spatial City) begun in the late 1950s. Asif Khan's design is inspired by the fact that Queen Caroline's Temple was positioned in a way that would allow it to catch the sunlight from The Serpentine lake.