Venice Biennale Report: An Exclusive Glimpse of This Year’s Most Striking Architectural Exhibits


An artistic director’s achievement at the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice is rated on the breadth, relevance and lucidity of his or her curated exhibition. As Architizer explores Alejandro Aravena’s Reporting from the Front, which fills the Central Pavilion at the Giardini and the Corderie at the Arsenale, it is becoming clear that this year’s Biennale scores highly on all three criteria. Aravena proposes that ‘architecture gives form to the places where people live,’ and that its practice is ‘neither more complicated nor simpler than that.’ To be included, projects had to address relevant architectural challenges in the contemporary world, rather than merely produce ‘buildings that look nice but are unable to say which problem [they] are trying to address.’ Keep scrolling for exclusive photographs of the most striking architectural interventions across the Giardini and the Arsenale. The “Making Of” Venice Biennale introductory exhibit The work of Rural Urban Framework in Mongolia: “Sedentary versus nomadic; cities should be able to host from modern to archaic ways of living if they want to properly tackle the migration of people towards them.” ... , Colin Martin, read more http://ift.tt/1U0uxGX

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