The documentary "Tudo é Projeto," which explores the life and work of Paulo Mendes da Rocha—one of the most respected architects in Brazil and worldwide—will be screened on May 23 at 4:00 PM in the Aula Magna at the Università Iuav di Venezia. This event is an initiative of the Casa da Arquitectura in partnership with Iuav, taking place during the opening week of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Juan Navarro Baldeweg has pursued his creative work across various expressive fields, including architecture, painting, installation, sculpture, and essays. His body of work forms a distinct artistic corpus, remarkable for both its coherence and the diversity of the media in which he works. The exchange of ideas and concepts between the arts, as proposed in his work, expands the traditional conceptual scope of architecture. The multiplicity of influences in his work, along with his commitment to applying his principles regardless of the medium, has led him to focus on creating pathways between different artistic practices.
As I Shape the Object, the Object Shapes Me
Water is not just a resource—it is a voice, a right, a system of relationships. Water shapes landscapes, communities, and futures. It nourishes, resists, and demands justice.
In a famous essay about the relationship between feminism and architecture, Mary McLeod noted how Foucault, in articulating the concept of heterotopia ‘seems to have expressed an unconscious disdain for aspects of everyday life such as the home, the public park and the department store, which were instead provinces in which women found not only oppression, but also a degree of comfort, security, autonomy and even freedom.’ The backdrop for this exhibition is a work by the English architect naturalized Swedish Ralph Erskine, called Shopping, which opened in September 1955 in Luleå, a town on the edge of the Arctic Circle where most of the population of Norrbotten is concentrated. With its hard-to-reach location, this building received little attention from architectural critics, who were only interested in it as something it was not: the first shopping mall in history. In spite of its name, the building is in fact rather like a passage, a shopping mall with no underground parking and no car access, located in the very center of the city. The importance of the building did not escape to Mai Zetterling - the first female director to win an award for directing at the Venice Film Festival after the war with the short film War Game (1962) - who set the decisive sequences of Flickorna (The Girls, 1968), a milestone in the promotion of a culture of equality and gender diversity (from which the title line of the exhibition is taken). By juxtaposing the projection of this film transposition of Aristophanes' Lysistrata with the transfigurations of promotional and documentary images conserved in the archives that in various ways give an account of the commercial gallery's past, the exhibition intends to make explicit the contestation to the stereotyped image of the “Swedish woman” that asserted itself on the international scene, and more specifically in Italian cinema, from the end of the 1950s onwards. In order to gain a physical and bodily awareness of how much Shopping's architecture has been and still continues to be a field of confrontation and redefinition of gender identity, those who visit the exhibition will have the concrete possibility of tracing its complex inner atrium and directly comparing it with figurines, caricatures (macchietta)
and human representations of the time, giving life to the performance of a real ‘animated view’.
Shaping the City comes back to Venice this November
Estudio Ramos presented its work in the 2023’s edition of Time Space Existence, the extensive architecture biennale exhibition organized by the European Cultural Centre (ECC) in Venice, Italy. This year’s show, which opened in May and will run until the end of November, focuses on sustainability and promotes an exploration of the challenges presented by current environmental issues.
VENICE DESIGN WEEK 2023
Design Festival from 7 to 15 October
The 7th edition of the Triennale marks its first public moment in Venice during the Pavilion Days of Biennale Architettura 2023. Moderated by chief curators John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog from Territorial Agency, the clash of ideas brings together experts from art to architecture, science, technology and the humanities.
The 7th edition of the Lisbon Triennale kicks off in Venice with a debate centered on the question "How Heavy is a City?" This open, participatory reflection brings together experts from various disciplines, ranging from art to architecture, science, technology, and the humanities.
July 1, Saturday, 18:00, the courtyard of the Bulgarian Pavilion, Biennale Architettura 2023, 18th International Architecture Exhibition The Laboratory of the Future, Venice
panel discussion with:
Andreas Ruby, director, the Swiss Architecture Museum S AM in Basel
Aneta Vassileva, architect, architecture critic and historian, professor at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia
Erich Schoenenberger, architect, adjunct assistant professor at Pratt Institute; director of su11 architecture+design
Katrine Daugaard Jørgensen, architect, head of transformation at Henning Larsen; consultant of the design brief for the architecture competition of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Center in Gabrovo
Tania Hristova, mayor, Gabrovo Municipality
Vladimir Yavachev, operations and project director, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Atlas of Hope Conference
29 June 2023
As part of the landmark exhibition created by NEOM entitled ‘Zero Gravity Urbanism - Principles for a New Livability’, there will be a series of public events, featuring leading architects, academics, and urban thinkers from around the world.
