Fondazione Berengo pays tribute to the architecture and pioneering vision of Zaha Hadid with a dedicated exhibition in Venice: from iconic projects to unrealised and under-construction designs.
2016 Pritzker Prize goes to Alejandro Aravena. The curator of upcoming Venice Biennale is known for engaging local communities to develop social and sustainable architecture that improves people’s lives.
Inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial attracted over half a million people, more than double the visitors of Venice Biennale. We looked into it, going beyond the figures…
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena was named artistic director of 2016 Venice Biennale. After Koolhas provocations, the international exhibition will showcase the social and environmental role of architecture in the “battles to be won”.
Portugal participation at Venice Architecture Biennale consists in Homeland – News from Nowhere, a publication that head-titles “How can we be post-modern without even being modern?”.
The Korean Pavilion develops Rem Koolhas brief about “Absorbing Modernity” with a political and ambitious exhibition that features 40 works and projects from both North and South Korea. Curator Misuk Cho aimed to proove the potential of a unified country were two extreme ideas of modernity shaped two opposite cultures and architectures in much less than a century.
Chile Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale is centred around a standing isolated large-concrete panel as a symbol of the country political history and as the housestock unit representing the absorption of modernity in the past 100 years.
What happens to regime architecture built in name of modernity? The Dominican Republic pavilion at Venice Biennale hosts an exhibition about how the site of a fair wanted by dictator Trujillo came back to life after a propaganda hungover.
The exhibition “Modernity as tradition” at Brazil Pavilion in Venice displays how evolution of local architecture helped to build a national identity.
“A Clockwork Jerusalem”, the exhibition of British Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale, explores the origins, projects and experience of British Modernism. The exhibition mesh architecture and urban planning in postwar towns with Kubrik’s pop-culture, an animated white LED galloping horse and concrete cows.
INNESTI/GRAFTING, the exhibition at Italian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale interprets Rem Koolhas provocation about dealing with a globalized architecture by enhancing a national attitude to incorporate new architecture with the previous heritage. Curator Cino Zucchi set a botanical-oriented exhibition focused on Milan as a modernity lab, 2015 Expo and a review on the evolution of Italian landscape.
The exhibition in the Nordic Pavilion in Venice shows how modern Scandinavian architecture became an essential component of foreign aid to East Africa in the period 1960–80, and how the ideals of the Nordic welfare system found expression in a number of construction projects.
A spikey tower made by 692 wooden stools raises as a symbol of the erasure of regional identiy at Kosovo Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale.
Canada’s national exhibition at Venice Architecture Biennale explores how Inuit communities in Nunavut, the newest, largest and most northerly territory, challenged the viability of an universalizing modernity.
The Israeli pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 is focused on the concept of Uburb, a neologism that mesh urban and suburban as the result of 100 years modernist planning in Israel. Four sand printers sketch, erase and re-sketch scenarios of a condense society living in isolated residential-buildings sprawled and isolated throughout the country.
Is there a globalized architecture able to shape an uniformed style through out the planet? Some of the most impressive national pavilions at Venice Architecture Biennale challenged back the “Absorbing Modernitiy” provocation launched by curator Rem Koolhas.
Curatored by felix._Giles_Anderson + Goad, the Australian pavilion at Venice Biennale features real-world scale virtual models of unrealized projects in the last 100 years.
Cinematographer Tomas Koolhas is about to present “REM” the feature length documentary that showcases how the architectures designed by his famed father Rem Koolhas are lived, explored and experienced by their inhabitant and neighbors.
With Rem Koolhas as curator of 2014 Venice Biennale, architecture world will have to touch base with the “Foundamentals”. No bombastic slogans are allowed, no flamboyant extravaganza or ArchiStar line-ups are to be shown off but a honest reflection of how architecture has broken national boundaries and how it relates every day with the “Absorbing Modernity” Issue.
This year the 55th International Art Exhibition at Venice Biennale hosted many projects, video-performances and site-specific installations that underline meeting points between art and architecture.
