In the final room of Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World – a retrospective of Hepworth’s work at Tate Britain – sits an abstraction of the Rietveld Pavilion.This installation was devised and created by eight RCA MA Architecture students as a ‘Live Project’ under the tutelage of Jamie Fobert and two JFA Associates, Oliver Bindloss and George Dawes.
The students spent six months researching the iconic 1955 pavilion – which is formed of simple horizontal and vertical lines, made from concrete, brick, steel, glass and wood – and negotiating the practical challenges of recreating it within a gallery space.