11th Venice Architecture Biennale

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Biennale Architecture Out There: Architecture Beyond Building
by Aaron Betsky

"The 11th Architecture Biennale, entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, points 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 this world it is not enough to keep the rain out, create room for office cubicles, or fit into a context that either changes continually or becomes artificially frozen."

http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/

ROMA interrotta

1978 to 2008: “Thirty years later the Biennale di Venezia reopens the game, expanding the horizon from the urban to the metropolitan: the creative itinerary rediscovers imagination.”

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images: Costantino Dardi

“In order to discover new scenarios by which we might be able to be at home in the sprawl of what was once the city and is now a confused urban field, we must uncover and rethink the past out of which it seemingly inexorably arose...

How can we live with the landscapes time and economic forces have given us? First of all by seeing and knowing them, and that means being able to mirror and map them in those forms and compositions proper to architecture. Roma Interotta showed how that could be done. Now we must continue the work.”

~Aaron Betsky

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