La Aldea Feliz. Episodes of modernization in Uruguay is the Uruguayan contribution to the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. In 1914, while Europe was launched into the Great War, Uruguay tried to build a modernization project willing to achieve the enlightenment values. A “dream of the reason”, though sometimes full of monsters …
The British Council will present the exhibition ‘A Clockwork Jerusalem’ in the British Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – Venice Biennale. The Project will explore the diverse cultural influences that shaped and were shaped by British Modernism in the post war era and over the last 100 years. A Clockwork Jerusalem’s curatorial team, …
Isolated in upright position, a large-concrete panel stands on the center of theChilean Pavilion at the 2014 Venice International Architecture Exhibition. This was one of the first ever produced by the Chilean KPD plant—an industry to produce prefabricated housing donated in 1972 by the Soviet Union to the Chilean road to socialism led by president …
The concept of the interior is fundamental in architectural design. Behind the permanence of buildings’ façades, all sorts of transformations, adjustments and modifications are carried out. From this perspective, a study of our interiors provides valuable information about the new challenges to which architectural practice must rise. Obliging us to counter the notion of modernity …
This year, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) commissioned the first National Pavilion of Turkey at Venice Architecture Biennale, choosing Murat Tabanlıoğlu as Curator, whose Project will be titled ‘Places of Memory’. Departing from three areas of Istanbul, Taksim-Salıpazarı, Bâb-ı Âli and Büyükdere Boulevard, places that acted as thresholds during different stages of the curator’s life, the …
Urburb, a neologism referring to the contemporary mesh of urban and suburban sprawl, is the end result of one hundred years of modernist planning in Israel. The urburb is a fragmented mosaic composed of early twentieth century garden-city, agrarian settlements, mid-century social housing, and the generic residential typologies of the past two decades. This hybrid …
The Dutch contribution to la Biennale Architettura 2014 is “Open: A Bakema Celebration”, a critical rethinking of the idea of the open society through the work ofJaap Bakema. Bakema was a leading voice in the post-war avant-gardes of 20th-century architecture: CIAM and its successor Team 10. The shifting roles of the state and the market, …
‘Modernity – loved, hated or ignored?’ is the title of the exhibition curated by Stéphane Laruade, Bohumil Kostohryz, Sophie Langevin, Nuno Lucas Da Costa and organized by Fondation de L’Architecture et de l’Ingénierie au Luxembourg for theLuxembourg national Participation at 2014 Venice Biennale. In the curators’ statement it can be read: “How has modernity come …
Anatomy of the Wallpaper undertakes to present a creative and a retrospective reconstruction of the island’s history, and specifically of its capital, Nicosia. Due to Cyprus’s strategic location, the island has suffered throughout its history from invaders, conquerors and colonial powers, who all left their marks indelibly on the island, and predominantly on the form …
New Zealand’s inaugural national entry into the Venice Biennale is in the hands of a team led by one of the country’s most experienced and respected architects: David Mitchell, a recipient of the New Zealand Institute of Architects Gold Medal for career achievement, won the NZIA-organized competition to find a Creative Director for the New …
‘Lucius Burckhardt and Cedric Price – A stroll through a fun palace’ is a multi-faceted project by Hans Ulrich Obrist to be presented by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia at the Swiss Pavilion in the Giardini from 7 June to 23 November 2014 for the Venice Biennale. The exhibition will revisit the recent past …
Phyllis Lambert has been chosen to be the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition Fundamentals. “Not as an architect, but as a client and custodian, Phyllis Lambert has made a huge contribution to architecture. Without her participation, one of the few realizations in the 20th century of …
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