Installation in the architectural context refers to temporary or permanent spatial interventions that blur the boundary between architecture and art. These are not conventional buildings but constructed environments — pavilions, follies, immersive rooms, or landscape interventions — designed to be experienced rather than inhabited.
From Olafur Eliasson's weather installations to the annual Serpentine Pavilion commissions, architectural installations test ideas at a scale and speed that permanent buildings cannot. They are architecture's laboratory — places where material, light, and spatial ideas are prototyped before entering the mainstream.
