Venice architecture biennale 2016

Open to the public from Saturday May 28th to Sunday November 27th 2016 at the Giardini and the Arsenale, the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, titled REPORTING FROM THE FRONT, is directed by Alejandro Aravena and organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta.

The Exhibition also includes 63 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic city centre of Venice. Four countries are participating for the first time: Philippines, Nigeria, Seychelles and Yemen.

The Italian Pavilion at the Tese delle Vergini in the Arsenale, sponsored and promoted by the Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Direzione Generale Arte e Architettura Contemporanee e Periferie Urbane, has been assigned to the curatorial team TAMassociati: Massimo Lepore, Raul Pantaleo, and Simone Sfriso.

All images courtesy of Niccolò Piccinni

SPAIN – UNFINISHED
15^th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, REPORTING FROM THE FRONT

BELGIUM BRAVOURE

Le Corderie dell’Arsenale

The opening room at Le Corderie dell’Arsenale.

Both the opening rooms of Biennale Architettura 2016 – at the Central Pavilion at Giardini and at Arsenale – were built with the 100 tons of waste material generated by the dismantling of the previous Art Biennale: 10,000 m2 of gypsum board, 14 km of metal studs.

The first room at Corderie is the very same one that was used in 2014 to host the Swarovski installation. From crystal to waste material. Value is not based on the quality of material, but on creative and distinctive use instead.

Gabinete de Arquitectura Breaking the siege

Studio Anna Heringer with Lehm Ton Erde Baukunst with Architekturmeseum der Tum Mud works!

Kashef Chowdhury/Urbana To live is to be slowly born

HUNGARY æctivators. Locally active architecture

NORDIC COUNTRIES (FINLAND-NORWAY-SWEDEN)
In Theraphy – Nordic Countries Face to Face

CZECH and SLOVAK (Republic)
Care for Architecture: Asking the Arché of Architecture to Dance

AUSTRALIA
The Pool – Architecture, Culture and Identity in Australia

ROMANIA SELFIE AUTOMATON

Rural Urban Framework, the University of Hong Kong
Settling the nomads

Christ & Gantenbein with Stefano Graziani More than a hundred years

Bernaskoni Matrex

Bel Sozietät für Architektur
Neubau – on Königsberger Strasse und Aleppoer Strasse

Block Research Group, ETH Zürich with Ochsendorf, Dejong & Block and with The Escobedo Group
Beyond bending. Learning from the past to design a better future

Transsolar with Anja Thierfelder
Local identity – exploring a forgotten resource

Block Research Group, ETH Zürich with Ochsendorf, Dejong & Block and with The Escobedo Group
Beyond bending. Learning from the past to design a better future