Friday, June 17, 2016

Venice – Giardini -The 15th International Architecture Biennale di Venezia – Reporting From the Front – Central Pavilion



Venice – Giardini – Central Pavilion. The 15th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition, titled Reporting From the Front, until November 27, is curated by Alejandro Aravena and organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta.  The exhibition is at the Giardini and at the Arsenale.

  
Photograph by Giorgio Zucchiatti – courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

Curator - Alejandro Aravena.  “Reporting From the Front will be about sharing with a broader audience, the work of people that are scrutinizing the horizon looking for new fields of action, facing issues like segregation, inequalities, peripheries, access to sanitation, natural disasters, housing shortage, migration, informality, crime, traffic, waste, pollution and participation of communities. And simultaneously will be about presenting examples where different dimensions are synthesized, integrating the pragmatic with the existential, pertinence and boldness, creativity and common sense.”

 


Reporting From the Front – Maria Reiche’s Room

In his trip to South America Bruce Chatwin encountered an old lady walking the desert carrying an aluminum ladder on her shoulder. It was German archeologist Maria Reiche studying the Nazca lines. Standing on the ground, the stones did not make any sense; they were just random gravel. But from the height of the stair those stones became a bird, a jaguar, a tree or a flower. We would like the 15th International Architecture Exhibition to offer a new point of view like the one Maria Reiche has on the ladder”.
Curator - Alejandro Aravena


Reporting From the Front
Manuel Hertz and The National Union of Sahrawi Women


 

Reporting From the Front
 Manuel Hertz and The National Union of Sahrawi Women
Western Sahara – redefining the architecture of a refugee camp as the identity of a nation (yet to be).


  Reporting From the Front
Golden Lion – Best Participant - Reporting From the Front
Architect Solano Benítez -  Gabinete de Arquitectura
Asuncion - Paraguay

 
Reporting From the Front
Solano Benítez -  Gabinete de Arquitectura
Asuncion - Paraguay
Working with two of the most easily available materials – bricks and unqualified labor- as a way to transform scarcity into abundance.


  Reporting From the Front
Simon Velez’s battles and strategies to be able to use bamboo
Matter is more sustainable than materials (less embedded energy).


 
Reporting From the Front
The Work of Liu Jiakun in China
If cities are good news, then we may consider densifying the open spaces and the services and not just the residences and the buildings.


Reporting From the Front
Eyal Weizman – Forensic Architecture

Reporting From the Front
The work of Eyal Weizman in war zones
Forensic architecture – tracing wrongdoings back through architectural design logic.




Reporting From the Front
The Work of Michael Braungart
Sustainability beyond good intentions. Sustainable constructions shouldn’t be those that are less harmful but those that are the most beneficial to the environment.


Michael Braungart

 

Reporting From the Front
The work of Anna Heringer in Bangladesh
Exhibition in collaboration with Martin Rauch and Andres Lipik
Facing scarcity by using mud, one of the most readily available resources on earth.


Anna Heringer – Meti School - Bangladesh

 

Martin Rauch - House Rauch - Austria

 
Reporting From the Front
The work of Kashef Chowdhury/Urbana in Bangladesh
The nobility of open spaces, the discipline that is needed to work in a poor country as a clue to delivering quality even under difficult circumstances.

 
Kashef Chowdhury/Urbana  
Raised Settlements  - Northern Bangladesh


  Reporting From the Front
The work of Swiss architect Christian Kerez in Brazil
Learning from the favelas (without poeticizing them).




Reporting From the Front
The work of Renzo Piano as a lifetime senator of the Italian Republic and G124 Working Group
Taking care of the peripheries built in the last few decades.















 



 

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