The 11th International Architecture Exhibition entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky and organised by La Biennale di Venezia presided over by Paolo Baratta, will take place in Venice from Sunday, September 14th to Sunday, November 23rd 2008. The preview will be on September 11th, 12th and 13th.
According to Aaron Betsky –for six years director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam, one of the most prestigious museums and architecture centres in the world, and from last year Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum– the 11th Architecture Biennale, entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, “will point the way towards an architecture liberated from buildings to engage the central issues of our society; instead of the tombs of architecture, which is to say buildings, it will present site specific installations, visions and experiments that help us figure out, make sense of and feel at home in our modern world.”
Betsky goes on to point out “what should be an obvious fact: architecture is not building. Buildings are objects and the act of building leads to such objects, but architecture is something else. It is the way we think and talk about buildings, how we represent them, how we build them. This is architecture. More generally, architecture is a way of representing, shaping and perhaps even offering critical alternatives to the human-made environment. In fact, buildings are not enough. They are the tombs of architecture, the residue of the desire to make another world, a better world, and a world open to possibilities beyond the everyday. In a concrete sense, architecture is that which allows us to be at home in the world”.
“The challenge of the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale – underlines Betsky - is to collect and encourage experimentation in architecture. Such experimentation can take the form of momentary constructions, visions of other worlds, or the building blocks of a better world. This Biennale does not want to present buildings that are already in existence and can be enjoyed in real life. It does not want to propose abstract solutions to social problems, but wants to see if architecture, by experimenting in and on the real world, can offer some concrete forms or seductive images”.
The 11th Architecture Biennale, Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, will therefore present in the venues of Arsenale and Padiglione Italia at the Giardini, site specific installations, manifestos and utopian, dystopian or heterotopian visions. In the Arsenale, visitors will encounter almost two dozen such works. At Padiglione Italia a survey of experimental work by mainly young designers and five Masters of the Experiment will be on display.
The beginning of the Corderie of Arsenale will present Hall of Fragments, by David Rockwell with Casey Jones + Reed Kroloff. An architecture before building in the form selections of science fiction films that once showed us what our world would look like, as well as historical films that recreated older worlds, will be projected on screens. The Corderie will present large-scale site specific Installations, that will ask the question how we can be at home in the modern world. These Installations will be accompanied by Manifestos for an architecture beyond building. These Manifestos will both be spoken on large video screens and printed. Participants will include Diller Scofidio+Renfro, UN Studio, Massimiliano Fuksas, Nigel Coates, Droog Design, Philippe Rahm, M-A-D, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vicente Guallart, Zaha Hadid, An Te Liu, Greg Lynn, MVRDV, Penezič and Rogina, Asymptote, Atelier Bow Wow, Barkow Leibinger Architects. Continuing this theme, a modern-day yurt from Kazakhstan and a “paradise garden” by Kathryn Gustafson will continue this line of installations through the remainder of the Arsenale.
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Collateral Events
A Gathering Space / Scotland and Venice 2008
from September 11 to October 12
Piazzale della Stazione Santa Lucia
The Gathering Space is a memorable new place within Venice - a focal point that encourages people to gather, pause, look, engage and debate in this hub for a dynamic events programme.
Organization: The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City
http://www.thelighthouse.co.uk/
http://www.scottisharchitecture.com/
Andrea Palladio and contemporary architects: Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher
from September 14 to November 23
Villa Foscari La Malcontenta, Via dei Turisti, 9, Malcontenta di Mira (VE)
In occasion of the 500th anniversary of Andrea Palladio’s birth, Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher present “Aura”, a contemporary translation of Palladio’s harmonic system into a complex genotypic spatial environment.
Organization: Associazione Culturale Foscari
An Italian garden in Tianjin
Arsenale Novissimo Spazio Thetis
from September 14 to November 23
An exhibition dedicated to the design of a contemporary “Italian garden” inspired by Botticelli’s Venus, now in construction in Tianjin (China), through a sensorial and emotional itinerary installed in the spaces of the Arsenale.
Organization: Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, Department for Environmental Research and Development, Sino-Italian Collaboration Program for Environmental Protection
Architecture Religion Utopia
from September 14 to November 23
Monastery San Francesco della Vigna , Castello 2786 (Campo San Francesco della Vigna)
Exhibition "CREDERE" 7 maxi-blowup panels for 7 churches for 7 building materials.
Installation on the Gasometro of 7 spectacular colored equilateral triangles with 7 symbolic volumes. Exhibition of the project for the Gasometro - library.
Organization: Istituto di Studi Ecumenici San Bernardino (ISE)
ART, ARCHITECTURE, LITURGY. International experiences compared
November 6 and 7
Museo Diocesano D'Arte Sacra Sant’Apollonia, San Marco, Castello, 4312
A conference to exchange views on the interaction between liturgical art and contemporary languages, on European experiences (Scandinavian countries and Poland) and on the work of protagonists in architecture (Fisac, Fuksas, Riepl Riepl Architekten) and in art (Barcelò, Richter).
Organization: Ufficio Nazionale per i beni culturali ecclesiastici della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana, Servizio Nazionale per l'edilizia di Culto della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana and Patriarcato di Venezia
http://www.chiesacattolica.it/
http://www.patriarcatovenezia.it/
Between boldness and urbanity: la Défense enlightens « the Great Paris »
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Castello, 5252 (Santa Maria Formosa)
from September 13 to November 2
The project participates in the renovation of the Défense business district to improve its urban quality and make it an attractive and convivial place to be.
Organization: EPAD - Etablissement pour l'Aménagement de la Région de la Défense
Billboard Project in the city – Patrick Mimran
Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco, 3198 (San Samuele)
from September 10 to November 23
The exhibition presents 30 photographic works of Patrick Mimran, taken between 2001 and today, that testify the interventions Mimran realized through the Billboard Project on urban architectures. It is curated by Alessandra de Bigontina.
Organization: Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci” di Milano
BornHouse
San Stae Church
from September 11 to October 26
BornHouse, an exhibition bringing together 26 Russian and international architects, focuses on birth – of human beings and of architectural forms.
Organization: State Museum of Architecture, Moscow
Check-in architecture
Arsenale Novissimo Tese di San Cristoforo
from September 14 to November 23
Check-in architecture is a participative research project. It invites artists, architects, designers and sociologists studying in some European universities to describe our cities through documentary films lasting around 3 minutes.
Organization: Metalab
http://www.checkinarchitecture.com/
Curry Stone Design Prize
Circolo Ufficiali Marina Militare, Castello, 2167 (Fondamenta dell’Arsenale)
from September 11 to 14
The Curry Stone Design Prize is awarded every year to breakthrough design solutions with the power and potential to improve our lives and our world.
Organization: University of Kentucky College of Design
Dark City
Palazzo delle Prigioni, San Marco, Castello, 4209
from September 11 to November 23
This project proposes an idea of “meaning installation”. It is beyond building; it is not a work of building, but rather a “pre-building.” It returns space to a “primordial” state before building. It is a space of body, a space of tectonic and illusion.
Organization: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Fabrica Cultura (Cultura Fabricate): Hong Kong in Venice
Arsenale, Castello, 2126 (Campo della Tana)
from September 11 to November 23
This exhibition is to examine the idea of architecture (specifically within the Hong Kong context) as cultural imagination and manifestation as embodied in the concept of fabrica in a spectrum of cultural aspects and practices.
Organization: Hong Kong Institute of Architects and Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Lagoon Park
Torre Massimiliana, Island Sant’Erasmo
Venice Northern Lagoon (itinerary through the installations)
from September 14 to October 31
Lagoon Park presents Shel(l)ter, a shell-shelter to sense the lagoon and measure its liquid soil.
Organization: Istituzione ‘Parco della Laguna’ – Comune di Venezia
http://www.parcolagunavenezia.it/
Le Corbusier’s Legacy: Local + Global
Library of the Hospital San Giovanni e Paolo, Castello (Campo San Giovanni e Paolo)
Palazzo Loredan, Dorsoduro (Calle dei Cerchieri)
September 13
The RIBA Trust and Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008, host two events celebrating the legacy of Le Corbusier: a workshop on his hospital project for Venice; and a seminar on his cultural influence globally more than 40 years since his death.
Organization: RIBA Trust
www.architecture.com/lecorbusier
Made in Iuav. The university between research and design
Arsenale Novissimo Spazio Thetis
from September 14 to November 2
The young reality of design “made in Iuav” goes on exhibit in projects by the teacher-designers, students and former students: from socially useful products, to communication, on the edges of other art forms.
Organization: Università Iuav di Venezia - Facoltà di Design e Arti
Matthias Schaller “Fratelli d’Italia”
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island San Giorgio Maggiore
from September 13 to October 12
An exhibition of photography by German artist Matthias Schaller, a conceptual work on the analogy between political and architectural ideology located in 150 opera houses scattered through all the regions of Italy.
Organization: Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Next-Gene 20: Ao-Di Grand Land Architecture International Project, Taipei
from September 11 to November 23
Arsenale, Castello, 2126/A (Campo della Tana)
Architecture can make us at home in the modern world. It can do so most simply by providing us with all the elements with which we can build a House. Beyond-Houses are experiments and prototypes for a new kind of housing.
Organization: Arte Communications
http://www.artecommunications.com/
SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE. Rethinking the “infinite potentialities”
In Homage to Luigi Nono
Scuola dei Mercanti, Cannaregio, 3933 (Campo della Madonna dell’ Orto)
from September 12 to October 31
Spaces of images, spaces of sound and the challenge of crossing over. SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE (exhibition and small academy, unsuspected of subversivity) focuses on the perception of different spaces of sound, film, discourse, performance, architecture and the associated experimental dispositifs (exhibition architecture, stage architecture).
Organization: ARTIMAGE Graz Biennial on Media and Architecture
related events:
Archivio Luigi Nono, Giudecca, 619-621
Centro tedesco di studi veneziani, Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza, San Polo, 2765/a (Calle Corner)
The Architect’s Universe. Jørn Utzon
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Franchetti, San Marco, 2842 (Campo Santo Stefano)
from September 10 to November 2
The exhibition aims at presenting how Utzon developed his architectural ideas. Utzon’s working process and architectural experiments are shown thematically by going across specific projects and into other disciplines.
Organization: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
The architect’s visions: Traces from Italian architectural archives
Arsenale Novissimo Spazio Thetis
from September 14 to October 12
An exhibition on the utopian, visionary, imaginific dimension of the legacy of drawings and materials in the archives of twentieth-century Italian architecture.
Organization: AAA-Italia onlus Associazione nazionale Archivi d’Architettura contemporanea
The Bearable Lightness of Being – The Metaphor of the Space
Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Cannaregio, 3764 (Calle Racchetta)
from September 13 to November 23
The place is not only a physical space, but also a cultural space: to pay attention to the space means to pay attention to the landscape, the context, the territory, and also to the feelings and the multi perceptions that they provoke.
Organization: Fondazione Mudima
“The City of Man”. Towards a sustainable city: a city suitable for men
Centro Polivalente “A. Nardocci” di ESU – C.u.or.i, Palazzo dei Pompieri, Dorsoduro, 3861 (Calle Larga Foscari)
from September 16 to November 23
An analysis of the relationship between man-landscape-habitat and memory from an historical and artistic point of view. Inspired by the “arcology” theory of Paolo Soleri on architecture, this analysis will consider the topics of Man in his domestic and urban reality, Man related to his individual/collective memory, his history.
Organization: Associazione Culturale Gruppo Giovani Pittori Spilimberghesi
“University Iuav of Venice. The future of the Ship and Yacht Design”. Introductory Convention of the “Master of Architecture of the Ship and the Yacht”
Autorità Portuale di Venezia, former church of Santa Marta, Port of Venice
September 20
The University Iuav of Venice intends to develop the cultural and scientific reflection around the themes of naval and marine design, considering the unique lagoon context and its port.
Organization: Università Iuav di Venezia
Urbanpromo 2008
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Franchetti, San Marco, 2842 (Campo Santo Stefano)
from November 12 to November 15
Urbanpromo, an urban and regional marketing event, promotes debate and dialogue on issues underlying transformation processes, presenting plans and projects that sustain innovation,urban welfare and competitiveness in the territory.
Organization: INU – Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica
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