Rethinking the Pavilion: Shared Experience at the Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre

By Cindy Walters

A London-based architect offers a self-reflexive account of a communal building they designed in rural Britain.

Rethinking the Pavilion comprehensively investigates one unique project by Walters & Cohen Architects, the Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre in rural Suffolk, completed in 2018. The book describes how shared experience defines a new way of working towards an architecture that rediscovers and enriches its communal purpose. In addition to setting out a theoretical framework that examines the architectural history and theory of pavilions, the book provides a complex discussion of the details and meanings of the design research process itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1806550237
• ISBN13: 9781806550234
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Length: 196 Pages