Giardini
16th International Architecture National Pavilions Biennale
Australia – Belgium – Canada –Czech and Slovak – France – Germany –
Korea – The Netherlands – Nordic Countries - USA
During the 16th International
Architecture Biennale, until November 25, curated Yvonne Farrell and Shelley
and entitled FreeSpace, at the Giardini, at the Arsenale
and around Venice, National Pavilions present their own exhibitions. The
Golden Lion for the Best National Participation was awarded to Switzerland
and a Special Mention for National Participation went to Great
Britain.
Australian Pavilion – Repair
Commissioner:
Janet Holmes a Court AC
Curators: Baracco+Wright Architects in collaboration with Linda Tegg
Curators: Baracco+Wright Architects in collaboration with Linda Tegg
Exhibitors: Baracco+Wright
Architects, Bower Studio, Collins and Turner, d_Lab, RMIT University, Gilby +
Brewin Architecture, iredale pedersen hook, James Mather Delaney Design,
Greenaway Architects, Kerstin Thompson Architects, Monash Architecture
Laboratory, m3architecture with Bryan Hooper Architect P/L, Neeson Murcutt
Architects Pty Ltd with sue barnsley design landscape architecture, NMBW
Architecture Studio, Lucinda Mclean, William Goodsir and RMIT University,Robin
Boyd, Woods Bagot with Tridente Architects and Oxigen.
Wild nature is a model
architecture can look up to, or it can be forbidden territory not to be
trespassed upon. 10,000 plants inside and outside the Pavilion tell the story
of the tension between the environment and human spaces and is designed to
stimulate debate not only among professionals but at a cultural, social and economic
level, too. Space finds its definition in a debate between experts in urban
design, landscape architecture, indigenous culture and philosophy. These
disciplines will act as a filter to help us see architecture as it hasn’t been
imagined before.
Linda Tegg
Australian Pavilion –
Repair
Louise Wright
Mauro Baracco
Belgian Pavilion - Eurotopie
Commissioner: Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles
Curators: Traumnovelle and Roxane Le Grelle
Exhibitors: Traumnovelle and Roxane Le Grelle in collaboration
with Bruce Bégout, Philippe Braquenier, Sébastien Lacomblez, Dennis Pohl,
Claire Trottignon and 6’56” (Jurgen Maelfeyt)
An occasion to reflect on
age-old questions about the meaning of Europe and its need for strength and
vitality to counter raging nationalism. At the geographical and political heart
of the continent, the European quarter in Brussels means more than the sum of
adjacent physical spaces; it is the embodiment of the political system of the
European Union. The goal of the Pavilion, built in 1907 and the second-oldest
after the former Italian Pavilion, is to feed debate and the exchange of different
views – something that seems lacking in the European quarter – about the future
of Europe, starting with a better knowledge of Brussels’ own urban fabric.
Belgian Pavilion -
Eurotopie
Canadian Pavilion - Canada Builds/Rebuilds a
Pavilion in Venice
Curator: Rejean Legault
Architect for the restoration: Alberico Barbiano di Belgiojoso,
Landscape Architects: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Bryce Gauthier
Sixty
years since its construction and after four years of renovation work, the
Pavilion itself is celebrated by showing the main stages of its history. The
restoration of the Canadian building
by architect Alberico Barbiano di
Belgiojoso, heir to the practice that designed the Pavilion originally in
1958 (BBPR - Ban, Belgiojoso,
Peressutti, Rogers).
Canadian Pavilion -
Canada Builds/Rebuilds a Pavilion in Venice
Republico of Czech and Slovak Pavilion – UNES-CO
Curator: Katerina Seda, Hana Jirmusova Lazarowitz
Exhibitor: Katerina Seda
Exhibitor: Katerina Seda
Progressively
deprived of their original residents and filled with tourists, a large number
of tourist destinations in Czechia and Slovakia are seeing their traditional
rhythms and habits fade away and their buildings being devoted to tourism and
hospitality. The example being shown is that of Ceskyy Krumlov, a city of 13,000 in Bohemia, visited every year by over a million tourists who have
‘pushed’ the original inhabitants out of the city center. The Pavilion is the
office of fictional UNES-CO project,
trying to reverse this process.
Hana Jirmusova Lazarowitz and Katerina
Seda
Republic of Czech and Slovak Pavilion – UNES-CO
French Pavilion - Infinite Places - Building or
Making Places?
Commissioner: French Institute with Ministry for Europe and Foreign
Affairs and Ministry of Culture
Curators: Nicola Delon, Julien Choppin, Sebastien Eymard-Encore Heureux
Curators: Nicola Delon, Julien Choppin, Sebastien Eymard-Encore Heureux
Exhibitors: Nicolas Chambon and Encore Heureux for the Hotel
Pasteur in Rennes: the Atelier Novembre for the CentQuatre-Paris in Paris;
PEROU (Pole d’exploration des ressources urbaines) and NAC (Notre Atelier
commun) for the Tri Postal in Avignon; Julien Beller for the 6B in Saint-Denis;
Jean-Marc Jourdain and Nicolas Bachet for the Convention in Auch; ARM Architecture
- Poitevin Reynaud, Construire, Matthieu Place, Encore Heureux, Jean-Luc
Brisson, David Onatzki, Duchier+Pietra Architectes, Olivier Moreux, Caractère
Spécial and BkClub for the Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille; Encore Heureux
for the Ateliers Médicis in Clichy sous-bois-Montfermeil; Construire and Encore
Heureux for the Grande Halle in Colombelles.
The
exhibition recycles materials used for Studio Venezia, the project by Xavier Veilhan presented at the 2017 Art Biennale, and is about architectural experimentation's in the restitution of territory. A story of ten places across France - that have seen projects of
temporary occupation, public infrastructure, participative habitats, places of
work or culture, that make us wonder whether architecture is just about making
buildings or it is really about creating places.
Sebastien Eymard- Encore Heureux, Julien Choppin and Nicola Delon
French Pavilion - Infinite Places - Building or Making Places?
German Pavilion – Unbuilding Walls
Commissioner: Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building
and Community
Curators: Marianne Birthler, Lars Kruckeberg, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit
Curators: Marianne Birthler, Lars Kruckeberg, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit
On February 5, Germany celebrated Circle Day: 28 years, 2 months and 26
days since the fall of the Berlin Wall,
which is exactly the same time the Wall had divided the city in half. Walls to
tear down in the name of integration, walls to walk past to understand what differentiates
our world from what came before, walls to study to understand the history of a
nation. How and how much do division and integration influence architecture?
Starting with its own history, Germany presents a reflection on the concept of
a border and its effects on the organization of space.
German Pavilion – Unbuilding Walls
German Pavilion – Unbuilding Walls
Korean Pavilion – Spectres of the State
Avant-garde
Commissioner: Arts Council Korea
Curator: Seongtae Park
Exhibitors: Sung-woo Kim (N.E.E.D Architecture), Jinhong Jeon, Yunhee Choi (BARE), Hyun-Suk Seo, Hyun Seok Kang, Gunho Kim (SGHS), Choon Choi, Kyoungtae Kim (EH), Jidon Jung
Curator: Seongtae Park
Exhibitors: Sung-woo Kim (N.E.E.D Architecture), Jinhong Jeon, Yunhee Choi (BARE), Hyun-Suk Seo, Hyun Seok Kang, Gunho Kim (SGHS), Choon Choi, Kyoungtae Kim (EH), Jidon Jung
Korea Engineering Consultants Corp., a
state-owned consultancy for architecture and civil engineering established in
1963, has been instrumental for the nation in terms of the development of
architecture and building. The four projects exhibited at the Korean Pavilion (the Pavilion for the 1970 Osaka Expo, the master plan for Yeouido Island, the Seawoon
Arcade and the Guro Industrial
Exposition plan) coming from the Corporation’s archive, were built in the
late 1960s to act as propaganda for Korea’s intention to become an industrial
powerhouse.
Korean Pavilion – Spectres of the State
Avant-garde
The Netherlands Pavilion – Body - Work - Leisure
Commissioner: Het Nieuwe
Instituut
Curator: Marina Otero Verzier
Curator: Marina Otero Verzier
Exhibitors: Amal Alhaag, Beatriz Colomina,
Marten Kuijpers & Victor Muñoz Sanz, Simone C. Niquille, Mark Wigley,
Matthew Stewart and Jane Chew, Northscapes Collective (Hamed Khosravi, Taneha
K. Bacchin & Filippo laFleur), Noam Toran, Giuditta Vendrame, Paolo
Patelli, Liam Young, Florentijn Boddendijk and Remco de Jong, Giulio
Squilacciotti.
Dutch artist and
architect Constant Nieuwenhuys
created New Babylon, a theoretical
creative society, in the 1960s. In New Babylon, humankind is liberated by the
automation of the production process and can concentrate instead on personal
growth through play and creative development. This hypothetical future may now
be closer than we imagined: in Rotterdam
and in rural Holland a new
architecture of complete automation is being implemented, from the port’s self-managed
logistical infrastructure to the relationships that define the physical and
social landscape of a city. What are the short- and long-term implications of
automation on the urban environment? Curator Marina Otero Verzier searches for answers with the help of
architects, designers, historians and theorists.
The Netherlands Pavilion – Body - Work - Leisure
Nordic Pavilion – Findland – Norway – Sweden –
Another Generosity
Commissioner: Reetta Heiskanen, Museum of Finnish Architecture
Curators: Juulia Kauste, Eero Lunden
Exhibitors: Lunden Architecture Company
Exhibitors: Lunden Architecture Company
The
relationship between nature and the built environment is investigated in order
to understand the latest trends in architecture, highlighting the fragile,
often invisible interactions between buildings and space. These intricacies are
examined by Sverre Fehen, the
architect who designed the Nordic
Pavilion’s building in 1962 and made it permeable to the eye, with no
definite separation between inside and outside, and able to show its content
clearly. Thanks to the natural light which floods the building through its
exceptional roof, forms, sounds and materials blend in an architecturally
unique way.
United States of American Pavilion – Dimensions
of Citizenship
Commissioners:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Paul Coffey, Jonathan Solomon), The
University of Chicago (Bill Brown, Bill Michel)
Curators: Niall Atkinson, Ann Lui, Mimi Zeiger
Curators: Niall Atkinson, Ann Lui, Mimi Zeiger
Exhibitors: Amanda Williams + Andres
L.Hernandez in collaboration with Shani Crowe;Design Earth; Diller Scofidio +
Renfro, Laura Kurgan, Robert Gerard Pietrusko with Columbia Center for Spatial
Research; Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman; Keller Easterling with MANY;
SCAPE; Studio Gang, Frances Bodomo, Mandana Moghaddam, David Rueter and Marissa
Lee Benedict, Mika Rottenberg, Liam Young.
Questions of citizenship grow more
urgent every day in the USA, as in
the rest of the world. Seven professional teams show how architects and
designers can have a say on this topic and how cooperation between these two
disciplines may help us understand what we mean by ‘belonging.’ Inclusion and
exclusion, marginalization and democratic rights are reflected in the built
environment from the micro to the macro, from a table to a whole building, from
infrastructure to the planet. Other than the seven installations – each of
which tells the story of what it means to belong on a different scale – the
curators have selected video art on the themes of travel, mobility and
migration with respect to citizenship.
Mimi Zeiger
Kate
Orff
Amanda
Williams and Andres
L. Hernandez
Don’t Miss
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.
The Awards - Biennale Architecture
A special mention National Participation
Great Britain - Island
A Special mention
for National Participation went to Great Britain for the courageous proposal
that uses emptiness to create a “freespace” for events and informal
appropriation.
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