Thursday, September 18, 2008

VENICE: 11th Biennale of Architecture: OUT THERE: ARCHITECTURE BEYOND BUILDING

Photograph courtesy Avatar Architecture and Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia

“NUTRITION” # 1 – The Italian Pavilion. The Edible Edifice by Avatar Architettura. Eating, sleeping, breathing and protection from the elements will no longer be acquired privileges in exchange for money, but they will become daily actions that everyone can accede to naturally. The waste products from our ways of life will be gradually reused, recycled and reabsorbed back into the system.

A detail. A detail of The Edible Edifice installation by Avatar Architettura. Architecture and nutrition, the roof and food, for so long distinct, will come together to form a single informal lifestyle. Men and Women will re-acquire the means to make their house and grow their food in quantities sufficient to survive an entire lifetime.