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Non-Design: Architecture’s (Counter-Intuitive) Future
Quinta Monroy development after occupation. © Cristobal Palma Global architecture underwent a seismic shift in the 20th Century. Governments, keen to mitigate the impoverishing effects of rapid urbanization and two world wars embarked on ambitious social housing programs, pairing with modernists who promised that design could be the solution to…
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Álvaro Siza Pavilion Will Remain at Venice Biennale Until 2016
Pavilhão de Álvaro Siza © Nico Saieh “Recognized by all for its efficiency,” the pavilion that Álvaro Siza… designed for last year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture will remain on display and be utilized as “additional space” by the new curators in 2014 and 2016.
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Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British Architecture
Fideicomiso: An architectural adventure in Argentina / Elias Redstone/Marcia Mihotich/British Council - Courtesy of the British Council [ February 26, 2013 22:00 to April 27, 2013 22:00. ] Following the conclusion of David Chipperfield’s 2012 Venice Biennale, the British Pavilion has brought its investigations back to the UK to expand upon ten exceptional research projects that illustrate how architecture has shaped the culture and economy of countries around…
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AD Interviews: San Rocco at the 13th Venice Biennale
During the 13th Venice Biennale we had the chance to interview the team behind San Rocco: Matteo Ghidoni, Giovanni Piovene and Pier Paolo Tamburelli.
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Venice Biennale 2012: Wunderkammer / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
© Nico Saieh At the gardens of the Arsenale designed by Piet Oudolf, a small pavilion, the Casa Scaffali, encloses a fantastic world of smells, textures and artifacts, a Wunderkammer (wonder-room)… curated by NY-based Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.
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Venice Biennale 2012: Dialogue Architecture / Juan Herreros
© Nico Saieh During the 13th Venice Biennale we had the chance to interview Spanish architect Juan Herreros, founder of Herreros Arquitectos (full interview in a following post).
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Live Chat with David Chipperfield
Courtesy of David Chipperfield Architects [ November 23, 2012; 12:00 to 13:00. ] David Chipperfield, the curator of the Architecture Exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale, Common Ground (which wraps up this weekend), …will be chatting live this Friday to offer his final two cents on the Exhibition’s legacy.
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AD Interviews: Jordi Badia / BAAS
We had the chance to interview Catalonian architect Jordi Badia at the Vogadors: Architectural Rowers exhibit at the 13th Venice Biennale.
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Venice Biennale 2012: Vogadors, Architectural Rowers / Catalan and Balearic Islands Pavilion
© Nico Saieh The 13th Venice Biennale, which closes its doors on November 27th, sparked an interesting debate during its opening given the highly political focus of some of the exhibitions, which for some diverged from architecture itself and entered on a discussion…
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Video: CANCHA – Chilean Soilscapes by Cristobal Palma
© Nico Saieh After opening in August, the 13th Venice Biennale will end this Sunday (November 25th). This video is a recording made by Cristobal Palma of the Chilean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2012 entitled CANCHA – Chilean Soilscapes (see our coverage of the exhibit here).
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Venice Biennale 2012: Re-Set / The Netherlands
© Nico Saieh The Dutch Pavilion, built in 1954 by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, is used by curator Ole Bouman (Director of the NAI) and designer Petra Blaisse (Insise Outside) to question how existing buildings can be reanimated, and how our profession can inject a new boost…
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Meetings on Architecture Event at the Venice Biennale
Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia 2012 [ November 24, 2012; 0:00; ] One of the final events at the Biennale Architettura is the Meetings on Architecture that will take place on November 24 at Teatro alle Tese, Arsenale. In the context of the 13th International Architecture Exhibition Common Ground, the aim is…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Panavision / Uruguay Pavilion
© Nico Saieh Panavision…, the Uruguay exhibit for the 13th Venice Biennale, features the works of the new generation of Uruguayan architects, using their Pavilions as a common ground, a place rather than an exhibit, where the focuses, approaches, tools, worries, emphasis
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Venice Biennale 2012: Yucún or Inhabitat the desert / Peru
© Nico Saieh For the Venice Biennale, a group of 20 Peruvian architects (with no state support) presented a reflection on one of the most interesting territorial projects in South America. After 80 years in construction, a 20km tunnel connecting the Amazon to…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Torre David, Gran Horizonte / Urban Think Tank + Justin McGuirk + Iwan Baan
© Nico Saieh Last year, thanks to a photo essay by architecture photographer Iwan Baan featured in the New York Magazine, the world became aware of a dramatic urban context in Caracas, Venezuela, the result of a lack of available housing: The Torre David (David Tower). The tower,…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Vitorio Magnano Lampugnani
© Nico Saieh The master plan presented by Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition is for a private company, even though it operates at city scale. Designed for the Swiss pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Novartis, it demanded a balanced response…
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Venice Biennale 2012: ModellStudiengang
© Nico Saieh The artists in this installation share, with Thomas Demand, a very particular attitude towards models, which stems from their engagement with architecture. Models, according to Demand, are ways of understanding the environment without the distraction of a multitude of diverging…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Gateway / Norman Foster
© Nico Saieh For the 13th Venice Biennale, Norman Foster was invited to create two exhibitions. On the one hand, there’s Central Pavilion, “Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank HQ”, specifically commissioned by David Chipperfield, which presents how a public space, created by physically lifting a…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Feeling at Home
© Nico Saieh This exhibition, curated by London-based Sergison Bates Architects, explores the common spaces between the public city and the private room. It considers six recent social housing projects in six cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Geneva, Paris, Trondheim and Winterthur. The work, by…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Macedonia Pavilion
© Nico Saieh How to think about today’s architecture, captured in the pragmatic flows of changing society? Can architecture once more be captivating, romantic, humanistic, visionary, and everyday at the same time? It appears that today’s architecture is becoming increasingly complex and ambiguous,…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Poland Pavilion
© Nico Saieh Yes, it could begin this way, right here, just like that, in a rather slow and ponderous way, in this neutral place that belongs to all and to none, where people pass by almost without seeing each other, where the…
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