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Venice Biennale 2012: Eduardo Souto de Moura
© Nico Saieh Eduardo Souto de Moura’s structure overlooks the old buildings in front of the Arsenale from the waterfront, on the path leading to Alvaro Siza’s structure that we featured yesterday.
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Venice Biennale 2012: ConVivência: Lucio Costa and Marcio Kogan / Brazil Pavilion
© Nico Saieh The Brazilian Pavilion brings together two outstanding professionals from two different generations: Lucio Costa (1902-1998) and Marcio Kogan (b. 1953). Costa is the world renowned urban planner who conceived Brasília, the country’s new capital inaugurated in 1960, with public buildings…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Public Works, Architecture by Civil Servants / OMA
© Nico Saieh “Forty years ago the public cause proved a powerful source of inspiration. Given the numbers of architects that chose to serve it, one might even speak of a common ground. In the age of the ‘starchitect’, the idea of suspending…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Revisit – Customizing Tourism / Cyprus Pavilion
© Nico Saieh In a time of rapid physical and digital connections the global phenomenon of tourism becomes more and more of a common activity. Tourism brings people from all over the world on a common ground giving them the opportunity to interact…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Shifting Grounds (Beyond National Architecture) / Ireland Pavilion
© Nico Saieh The Irish Pavilion, designed by heneghan peng architects with the support of Arup, and curated by John McLaughlin, charts a position for Irish architecture in a global culture where the modes of production of architecture are radically altered. Ireland has…
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Venice Biennale 2012: An Interview with David Chipperfield
Director David Chipperfield discusses the ideas behind Common Ground… and shares his response to the exhibitions featured inside the Arsenale at the 13th Architecture Biennale.
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Venice Biennale 2012: Architecture as New Geography / Grafton Architects, Silver Lion Award
© Nico Saieh Inspired by Pritzker Prize laureate Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s call “to get architecture out of the making and thinking of isolated objects and to show it as an inexorable transformation of nature”, Dublin practice Grafton Architects presents Architecture as New …
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AD Interviews: Alejandro Aravena / ELEMENTAL, Venice Biennale
Alejandro Aravena, Executive Director of ELEMENTAL, tells us more about The Magnet and The Bomb…, their exhibit at the Venice Biennale. You can learn more about the projects presented at this installation: PRES Constitución and Calama PLUS.
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Venice Biennale 2012: Architecture and its Affects / Farshid Moussavi
© Nico Saieh Continuing our coverage of the Venice Biennale, London-based Farshid Moussavi’s …installation at the Arsenale explored different experiences within everyday life and culture that are the result of architecture accepting certain “common grounds.” Entitled ‘Architecture and its Affects’, viewers were surrounded by
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Venice Biennale 2012: Elbphilharmonie / Herzog & de Meuron
© Nico Saieh Herzog & de Meuron’s exhibition at the Biennale is focused on the architecture of a symbolic project, with a complex history: The Elbphilharmonie, a concert hall on top of a former industry in Hamburg, which also includes a 250 room five-star…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Photos of the Japanese Pavilion by Patricia Parinejad
© Patricia Parinejad Photographer Patricia Parinejad… has shared with us her images from the Japanese Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. Presenting “Architecture. Possible here? Home-for-all”, the exhibition tells the story of three emerging architects collaborating with the exhibit’s curator, Toyo Ito,
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“Working with the 99%” wins Future Cities Prize in Venice
Aerial photo of the PRODAC neighborhood. - Courtesy of ateliermob At the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, three competing projects have been announced winners of the Future Cities: Planning for the 90 per cent… compeition: ateliermob (Portugal), Municipal Housing Secretariat of São Paulo (Brazil), and Interazioni Urbane (Italy). The projects were
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Village Health Works 40-acre Master Plan / Louise Braverman Architect
Traces of Centuries and Future Steps; Courtesy of Louise Braverman Architect [ August 29, 2012 to November 25, 2012. ] The village of Kigutu in Burundi, Africa is on its way to rebuilding a rural, off-the-grid medical site designed by Louise Braverman, Architect… in collaboration with Village Health Works. The 40-acre master site plan is a feature of sustainable design
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Venice Biennale 2012: The Piranesi Variations / Peter Eisenman
Field of Dreams / Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture © Nico Saieh Inspired by the 13th International Architecture Exhibition‘s theme Common Ground, Peter Eisenman has formed a team to revisit, examine and reimagine Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s 1762 folio collection of etchings, Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma…. Derived from years of fieldwork
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Video: 13th Venice Biennale / Venice Takeaway, the British
This year’s 13th Venice Architecture Biennale provided the backdrop to the British Pavilion’s Venice Takeaway exhibition. Commissioned by the British Council and curated by Vanessa Norwood and Vicky Richardson, Venice Takeaway responds to Biennale director David Chipperfield’s theme of Common…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Arum / Zaha Hadid
© Nico Saieh With their early work inspired by Russian Suprematism, Zaha Hadid Architects…’ pays homage to the historical lineages of collective research that has led to the major works of today’s contemporary architecture at the 2012 Venice Biennale with the installation ‘Arum’. The
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Venice Biennale 2012: Spontaneous Interventions / USA Pavilion
© Nico Saieh The jury of the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale has awarded the United States pavilion a “Special Mention” for it’s innovative installation, titled Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good…. Curated and commissioned by Cathy Lang Ho, along with
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Venice Biennale 2012: Originaire / China Pavilion
"Sequence" by Shao Weiping © Nico Saieh From the curator Fang Zhenning:
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“Originaire” is a word created to combine the meanings of “original” and “initial”. In the Chinese language, the character for “source” is specifically in the context of the water source. As such, we invoke the… -
Koolhaas to be the Biennale’s next Director?
Hot on the heels of the Jencks Award, yet another accolade is rumored to be coming Rem Koolhaas‘ way. The claims are flying about the twitterverse: OMA’s Koolhaas will be the next Director of the Venice Biennale.
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Venice Biennale 2012: Architecture. Possible here? Home-for-all / Japan Pavilion
© Nico Saieh The Japan Pavilion for the Venice Biennale (designed by Takamasa Yoshizaka in 1956) presented the exhibit “Architecture. Possible here? Home-for-all”, curated by Toyo Ito…, with the participation of architectural photographer Naoya Hatakeyama, and architects Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto and
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Venice Biennale 2012: CANCHA – Chilean Soilscapes / Chile Pavilion
© Nico Saieh Cancha… is a pre-hispanic Quechuan word that indicates a void that enables connections with our ground as well as among people. In urban terms, it is similar to the Spanish Plaza Mayor – the word is used in South America
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