The Awards - Biennale Architecture
Golden Lion – Best Pavilion - Switzerland
Golden Lion – Best Pavilion - Switzerland
Svizzera 240:House Tour
The Golden Lion for Best National Participation to Switzerland for a compelling architectural installation that is at once
enjoyable while tackling the critical issues of scale in domestic space. Commissioners:
Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia:
Marianne Burki, Sandi Paucic, Rachele Giudici Legittimo
Exhibitors: Alessandro Bosshard, Li Tavor, Matthew van der Ploeg, Ani Vihervaara
Exhibitors: Alessandro Bosshard, Li Tavor, Matthew van der Ploeg, Ani Vihervaara
Golden Lion – Best
Pavilion - Switzerland
Svizzera 240:House Tour
Rosita Missoni
Golden Lion – Best Pavilion - Switzerland
Svizzera 240:House Tour
The
project confronts the quintessentially Swiss
theme of residential architecture, or Wohnungsbau,
with a fresh approach that raises new questions. The Pavilion has been turned
into an apartment and invites visitors to a house tour; focusing their
attention on a building devoid of furniture and on its interior spaces, built
to different scales and united to form a labyrinthine sequence of perspectives.
Golden Lion – Best Pavilion - Switzerland
Svizzera 240:House Tour
Golden Lion – Best Pavilion - Switzerland
Svizzera 240:House Tour
The
architects of Svizzera 240 think the paradoxical presence of an unfurnished
interior signifies a challenge to the tradition of inconspicuousness of the
space itself and hints at an alternative architectural sensibility that will
reinterpret the white wall as the intimate place of contact between
architecture and society.
Photograph by Andrea Avezzu - courtesy La Biennale di
Venezia
The Awards - Biennale Architecture
Golden Lion – Best Pavilion – Switzerland
Golden Lion – Best Pavilion – Switzerland
The Switzerland Pavilion team received the Golden Lion from the
president of La Biennale di Venezia,
Paolo Baratta
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