Photograph by Andrea Avezzu – courtesy la Biennale
di Venezia
Venice – Arsenale: The 15th International
Architecture Biennale Exhibition
Reporting From the Front
“Our curatorial proposal is twofold:
on the one hand we would like to widen the range of issues to which
architecture is expected to respond, adding explicitly to the cultural and
artistic dimensions that already belong to our scope, those that are on the
social, political, economic, and environmental end of the spectrum. On the
other hand, we would like to highlight the fact that architecture is called on
to respond to more than one dimension at a time, integrating a variety of fields
instead of choosing one or another.”
Alejandro
Aravena
Venice – Arsenale:
The
15th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition, titled Reporting From the Front, until
November 27, is curated by Alejandro Aravena and organized
by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo
Baratta, above. The
exhibition is at the Giardini and at the Arsenale.
Reporting From the Front
The introductory rooms
of the Biennale Architettura 2016 were built with 100 tons of waste material
generated by the dismantling of the previous Biennale. 10,000 sq. meters of
plaster board and 14 km of metal studs.
Reporting From the Front
Kumbh Mela, a seven million
ephemeral settlement
A research by Rahul Mehrotra that
offers some clues for how to respond to massive migration towards cities.
The
Kumbh Mela is an extreme case of a religious congregation that generates a
temporary settlement for five million dwellers and is visited by over one
hundred million in fifty-five days.
Reporting From the Front
Using professional prestige to change the status quo
The work of Wang Shu and
Lu Wenyu of Amateur Architecture in Fuyang
Reporting From the Front
Sedentary versus nomadic; cities should be able to host from
modern to archaic ways of living if they want to properly tackle the migration
of people towards them.
The work of Rural Urban
Framework in Mongolia
Reporting From the Front
The talent that is needed to conduct with integrity the
transit from sketch to reality
The work of Cecilia Puga in Chile
Reporting From the Front
Architecture as a peak of civilization
The work of Paco Alonso as
proposals that always go way beyond the requests.
Reporting From the Front
The war on bending
The attempt by Ochsendorf,
Block, and Dejong to save materials and energy by having structures
working only in compression.
Reporting From the Front
Cutting edge engineering at the service of common sense
The work of Transsolar and
their contribution to sustainability
Reporting From the Front
Trying to negotiate heritage (preservation), art (change), and
mass tourism (predation)
Tadao Ando’s
project for Punta della Dogana in Venice
Tadao Ando
Reporting From the Front
Public buildings as public goods
The school of C+S for the
Veneto Region
C+S - Alessandra Segantini
Reporting From the Front
Architecture as an intensification of reality
The work of Jose Maria Sanchez
Garcia in Spain
Jose Maria Sanchez Garcia
Reporting From the Front
Beyond the top-down or bottom-up cliché to improve the
quality of architecture
The work of Studio Mumbai in
India
Reporting From the Front
Architecture and infrastructure at the same time
The proposal of Droneports
for Africa by Lord Norman Foster
The proposal of
Droneports for Africa by Lord Norman Foster
Reporting From the Front
Infrastructure, totem and social space
The Warka Water project in
Africa