'In a way we are everyman,' says Serpentine Galleries director Julia Peyton-Jones. 'We are a normal client. No more or less.' This is not quite true. The 'bold... networker extraordinaire', as the Financial Times described her, has pioneered an attention-grabbing architectural programme like no other in the world. Started in 2000, the annual commission of a Serpentine Gallery Pavilion - a trailblazing series of temporary structures, which gave English building debuts to a raft of stars from Rem Koolhaas to Peter Zumthor - has become a landmark event for the arts world, the profession and London.
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