NEWS | 2008

PHOTOS
These are photos taken during the opening previews, between September 11th -14th, 2008.

PRESS PHOTOS official photos from the La Biennale Press Office

ARSENALE, the main exhibition of the director Aaron Betsky, which was a sequence of installations, invited by the director to respond to a curatorial idea.

GIARDINI, photos of the National Pavilions, and the "Italian (International) Pavillion"

GIARDINI - American Pavillion, photos of the Amarican Pavillion

PARTY, closing party at the Arsenale

CITY, photos in and around Venice

CALATRAVA BRIDGE, Piazzale di Roma, Venezia

PRESS RELEASE from www.labiennale.org

5th May 2008

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, Penezic 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.

Biennale Architecture Director
Aaron Betsky

Born in Missoula (Montana, USA) in 1958, he trained in the Netherlands and the United States. Aaron Betsky brings vast and varied experience as curator, manager, historian, critic and in creating architecture exhibitions to the Venice Biennale.

Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) of Rotterdam –one of the most important architecture museums and centres in the world– from 2001 to 2006, for three editions (2002, 2004, 2006) he held the post of Commissioner for the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale’s International Architecture Exhibition.

At the 8th International Architecture Exhibition (2002), the Dutch Pavilion, curated by Aaron Betsky, won the Golden Lion for best foreign pavilion.

After finishing his secondary education in the Netherlands, Betsky graduated from the Yale School of Architecture (USA) and is accepted candidate for a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture from the Technical University in Delft (Netherlands).

He is currently Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum (since 2006), one of the most important and oldest (125 years) in the United States. Before this, between 1995 and 2001, he was Curator for architecture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Betsky is a prolific writer and journalist and the author of a dozen books starting with Violated Perfection: Architecture and the Fragmentation of the Modern (1990) and numerous articles with leading international specialised periodicals. He has written for the “Los Angeles Times” (1991-1994), and amongst the many other newspapers and periodicals he has contributed to, the “New York Times”, “Domus”, “Deutsche Bauzeitung, “Artforum” and “Metropolitan Home”.

He has held the Eero Saarinen chair in architecture at the University of Michigan and has been Visiting Professor at some leading US universities: at Columbia University in New York, at the California College of Arts in San Francisco, at the School of Architecture in Houston, and at the Southern California Institute of Santa Monica.

He is an honorary member of the British Institute of Architects (2004) and has won an award from the American Institute of Architects (2001).
From 1985 to 1987, he worked with Frank O. Gehry Associates, Inc. (Venice, California).

Among his books are What is Modernism (Phaidon Press, to be published in autumn 2008) and The United Nations Building (Thames & Hudson, 2006).

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.

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. That could mean producing homes, offices or other places where we live, work, gather or recreate. However, the production of such buildings has become so defined by codes –financial codes, building codes, life and safety codes, computer codes, codes of appearance and behaviour– that architecture has very little to do with the way they finally appear.

In isolated situations, such as when a rich person wants a house or a museum wants a cultural artfact, we can find instances of architecture that sensually and sensibly shapes our environment in such a way that it allows us know where we are.

At the same time, fabulous spaces are possible. We can see them in film and in art, where visions of other places unfold in front of our eyes. We can inhabit them in the highly defined spaces that cocoon around us, whether they are the private interior or in hotel rooms, or in the clubs, the restaurants and the boutiques that have become our gathering spaces. We can watch them grow around us in the carefully planned landscapes that have become our last true public spaces.

These images and spaces are worth looking at not just because they are beautiful, but because we are confronting design challenges for which buildings are not enough. How are we going to figure out how to do sprawl right, for instance? If our cities are bleeding out into concatenations of human dwellings that reach across the landscape without any concern for either the environment or social coherence, how can we create an architecture that uses the landscape wisely, frames a relationship to that world and to each other, allows us to be at home and connects us to a larger social, economic and physical fabric? How can we be at home at all in a world in which the continual movement of goods, people and information continually erodes all sense of permanence from any place? How can we construct a physical order that can become a stage on which we can live our lives in concert with others if the constructions that allow us live and play our roles are increasingly invisible results of communications and computer technologies?

Maybe we need to see architecture first of all as way of figuring out what we need to build –and what to unbuild. How can we make spaces that make sense and are sensual? Can we construct literal stages or notional moments of coherence? Can we reveal, appropriate and domesticate those forces, usually of a technological nature, that control our daily lives in such a way that we can feel at home in our modern world?

To do this, perhaps what we need is slow space –not stopped space, not utopia, but also not business usual. We need some icons and some enigmas to make us wonder. We need experiments, a few provisional structures, a few sketches or some maps of how we can move beyond the constructions and constrictions of building to create an architecture that does not solve problems, but poses, frames and articulates them. We need an architecture that questions reality.

This is the challenge the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale takes up. It seeks 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 use of new technologies is certainly something to consider in such experimentation, but so are the techniques developed outside of what we usually think of as the world of architecture, such as art, interior design, film, landscape architecture and performance. In a concrete sense, the use of collage and assemblage, of re-use and reconstruction, of unbuilding and deformation, of ephemeral form and utopian or dystopian imagery, and the posing of the ugly, the unformed and the undecided or blurred are all possibilities. In reality, there is a secret history of architecture separate from the progression of styles and the vagaries of technological perfection that has used such forces to produce an other architecture, and it is in this tradition that the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale places itself.

Aaron Betsky

PARTICIPANTS, Venue: Arsenale

Hall of Fragments

by DAVID ROCKWELL with CASEY JONES + REED KROLOFF

David Rockwell (born in 1956; lives and works in New York)
Casey Jones (born in Portland, 1966; lives and works in Detroit)
Reed Kroloff (born in Phoenix, 1960; lives and works in Detroit)

Installations

ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTURE:

Lise Anne Couture (born in Montreal, 1959; lives and works in New York)
Hani Rashid (born in Cairo, 1958; lives and works in New York)

ATELIER BOW WOW
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (born in Kanagawa, Japan, 1965; lives and works in Tokyo)
Momoyo Kaijima (born in Tokyo, 1969; lives and works in Tokyo)

BARKOW LEIBINGER ARCHITECTS
Frank Barkow< Regine Leibinger

NIGEL COATES
(born in Malvern, UK, 1949; lives and works in London)

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Wolf D. Prix (born in Vienna, 1942; lives and works in Vienna)
Wolfdieter Dreibholz (lives and works in Vienna)

DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO
Liz Diller (born in Lodz, Polonia, 1954; lives and works in New York)
Ricardo Scofidio (born in New York, 1935; lives and works in New York)

DROOG DESIGN+KESSELSKRAMER
Renny Ramakers (born in Zoetermeer, Netherlands, 1946)
Gijs Bakkers (born in Amersfoort, Netherlands, 1942)
Erik Kessels (born in Swalmen, Netherlands, 1968)
Engin Celikbas (born in Amsterdam, 1968)

GUALLART ARCHITECTS
Vicente Guallart (born in Valencia, 1963; lives and works in Barcelona)

GEHRY PARTNERS, LLP
Frank O. Gehry (born in Toronto, 1929; lives and works in Los Angeles)

ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
Zaha Hadid (born in Bagdad, 1950; lives and works in London)

AN TE LIU
(born in Tainan, Taiwan, 1967; lives and works in Toronto and Berlin)

GREG LYNN FORM
Greg Lynn (born in Vermilion, Ohio, 1964; lives and works in Venice, California)

GUSTAFSON PORTER - GUSTAFSON GUTHRIE NICHOL
Kathryn Gustafson (born in Yakima, 1951; lives in Vashon and Paris, works in Seattle and London)
Neil Porter (born in Epsom, 1958; lives and works in London)
Mary Bowman (born in California, 1958; lives and works in London)
Jennifer Guthrie (born in California, 1974; lives and works in Seattle)
Shannon Nichol (born in Arizona, 1974; lives and works in Seattle)

M-A-D
Erik Adigard (born in Brazzaville, Congo, 1953; lives and works in California)
Chris Salter (born in Beaumont, Texas, 1967; lives and works in Montreal, Canada, and Berlin)

M FUKSAS D
Massimiliano Fuksas (born in Rome, 1944; lives and works in Rome)
Doriana O. Mandrelli (born in Rome; lives and works in Rome)

MVRDV
Winy Maas (born in Scijndel, Netherlands, 1950; lives and works in Rotterdam)
Jacob Van Rijs (born in Amsterdam, 1964; lives and works in Rotterdam)
Nathalie De Vries (born in Appingedam, Netherlands, 1964; lives and works in Rotterdam)

PENEZIC & ROGINA ARCHITECTS
Vinko Penezic (born in Zagreb, 1959; lives and works in Zagreb)
Krešimir Rogina (born in Rijeka, Croatia, 1959; lives and works in Zagreb)

PHILIPPE RAHM ARCHITECTS
Philippe Rahm (born in Pully, Switzerland, 1967; lives and works in Paris and Losanna)

MATTHEW RITCHIE IN COLLABORATION WITH ARANDA/LASCH AND DANIEL BOSIA/ARUP AGU
Matthew Ritchie (born in London, 1964; lives and works in New York)

TOTAN KUZEMBAEV ARCHITECTURAL WORKSHOP
Totan Kuzembaev (born in Kazakistan, 1953; lives and works in Moscow)

UN STUDIO
Ben Van Berkel (born in Utrecht, Netherlands, 1957; lives and works in Amsterdam)
Caroline Bos (lives and works in Amsterdam)

Manifestos

ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTURE
ATELIER BOW WOW
BARKOW LEIBINGER ARCHITECTS
AARON BETSKY
NIGEL COATES
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
FRANCESCO DELOGU
DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO
DROOG DESIGN
EMILIANO GANDOLFI
GEHRY PARTNERS, LLP
GUALLART ARCHITECTS
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
JACQUES HERZOG AND PIERRE DE MEURON
AN TE LIU
GREG LYNN FORM
GUSTAFSON PORTER – GUSTAFSON GUTHRIE NICHOL
M-A-D
M FUKSAS D
MORPHOSIS
MVRDV
PENEZIC AND ROGINA ARCHITECTS
PHILIPPE RAHM ARCHITECTS
MATTHEW RITCHIE IN COLLABORATION WITH ARANDA/LASCH AND DANIEL BOSIA/ARUP AGU
DAVID ROCKWELL with CASEY JONES + REED KROLOFF
TOTAN KUZEMBAEV ARCHITECTURAL WORKSHOP
UN STUDIO
SASKIA VAN STEIN

Uneternal City. Thirty years after “Roma interrotta”
CENTOLA ASSOCIATI (Italy)
DELOGU ASSOCIATI (Italy)
GIAMMETTA & GIAMMETTA (Italy)
LABICS (Italy)
N!STUDIO (Italy)
NEMESI (Italy)
T-STUDIO (Italy)
BIG (Denmark)
CLARK STEVENS – NEW WEST LAND (USA)
KONING EIZENBERG ARCHITECTURE (USA)
MAD (China)
WEST 8 (Netherlands)

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Wolf D. Prix (born in Vienna, 1944; lives and works in Vienna)
Wolfdieter Dreibholz (lives and works in Vienna)

GEHRY PARTNERS, LLP
Frank O. Gehry (born in Toronto, 1929; lives and works in Los Angeles)

ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
Zaha Hadid (born in Baghdad, 1950; lives and works in London)

HERZOG & DE MEURON and AI WEIWEI
Jacques Herzog (born in Basilea, 1950; lives and works in Basilea)
Pierre De Meuron (born in Basilea, 1950; lives and works in Basilea)
Ai Weiwei (born in Beijing, 1957; lives and works in Beijing)

MORPHOSIS
Thom Mayne (born in Connecticut, 1944; lives and works in Santa Monica, California)

Experimental Architecture

in collaboration with EMILIANO GANDOLFI

2012 ARCHITECTEN (The Netherlands)

2A+P (Italy)

AETHER ARCHITECTURE (Hungary)

AOC (UK)

AVATAR ARCHITETTURA (Italy)

BALLNOGUES STUDIO (USA)

BERNASKONI + A0 (Russia)

STEFANO BOERI (Italy)

BUREAU DE MESARCHITECTURES (France)

CLOUD 9 (Spain)

COLLECTIF EXYZT (France)

COLOCO (France)

CUP (USA)

ECOLOGIC STUDIO (UK)

ECOSISTEMA URBANO (Spain)

ELEMENTAL (Chile)

ESTUDIO TEDDY CRUZ (USA)

FANTASTIC NORWAY (Norway)

FAST / ONE ARCHITECTURE (The Netherlands)

FATTINGER, ORSO, RIEPER AND STUDENTS OF TU VIENNA (Austria)

FELD72 (Austria)

FIELD OPERATIONS (USA)

HUSOS (Spain, Colombia)

SANDI HILAL, ALESSANDRO PETTI AND EYAL WEIZMAN (Palestine, Palestine, UK)

IAN+ (Italy)

ID-LAB (Italy)

INTERBREEDING FIELD (Taiwan)

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Sweden)

J,P:A JONESPARTNERS (USA)

JACOB + MAC FARLANE (France)

JDS / JULIEN DE SMEDT ARCHITECTS (Denmark)

LACATON & VASSAL ARCHITECTES (France)

LEBBEUS WOODS (USA)

LOT-EK (USA)

MA0 EMMEAZERO (Italy)

MAP OFFICE (China)

MILLEGOMME + REFUNC (The Netherlands)

JÜRGEN MAYER (Germany)

MOS (USA)

NL ARCHITECTS (The Netherlands)

BEN NICHOLSON (USA)

OBSERVATORIUM (The Netherlands)

R&SIE (N) + DS (France)

RAUMLABOR (Germany)

REBARGROUP (USA)

RECETAS URBANAS (Spain)

SIMPARCH (UK)

STALKER - OSSERVATORIO NOMADE (Italy)

STEALTH.(U)LTD (The Netherlands)

TAKUYA ONISHI -LAUNCHPAD05 (Thailand)

TOPOTEK 1 (Germany)

URBAN INSTRUMENTS (USA)

URBAN THINK TANK (Venezuela)

JEANNE VAN HEESWIJK + DENNIS KASPORI (The Netherlands)

ZUS [ZONES URBAINES SENSIBLES] (The Netherlands)

ALBANIA

to be confirmed

ARGENTINA

Commissioner: Andrea Rovelli. Venue: Artiglierie, Arsenale

ARMENIA, Republic of

Architecture Beyond Century

Jim Torosyan, Sargis Sardaryan, Levon Vardanyan, Levon Ghalumyan, Ashot Arshakyan, Narek Sargsyan, Arsen Arustamyan, Karen Haroutunyan, Vardan Haroutunyan, Gurgen Mushegyan, Isahak Nersisyan, Anna Tandilyan, Vakhtang Siradeghyan, Lilit Vardanyan, Ara Avetisyan, Varuzhan Aldalyan, Artyom Aloyan, Arpine Gevorgyan, Albert Sokhikyan, Tigran Sahakyan, Lusine Mamyan, Sedrak Vardanyan, Vardan Vardanyan

Commissioners: Ashot Haykazoun Grigorian, Paolo Arà Zarian. Curator: Rusanna Alaverdian. Venue: Palazzo Zenobio, Ex Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael, Dorsoduro 2596

AUSTRALIA

Abundant

Commissioner: Lucy Turnbull. Curators: Neil Durbach, Vince Frost, Wendy Lewin, Kerstin Thompson, Gary Warner. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

AUSTRIA

Before Architecture­- Vor der Architektur

Position 1: Josef Lackner

Position 2: Pauhof architekten

Position 3 - Residential Building as Motivation

Commissioner: Bettina Götz. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

BELGIUM

1907... After The Party

Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen

Commissioner: Moritz Küng. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

BRAZIL

Commissioner: Manoel Francisco Pires da Costa. Curator: Roberto Loeb. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

BULGARIA

Bulgaria: Inside the Young Architect

Commissioner: Todor Boulev Curators: George Stanishev, Vessella Nozharova

CANADA

41° to 66°: Architecture in Canada - Region, Culture, Tectonics

Feature Projects: Architects Alliance, Busby Perkins + Will, Croft Pelletier architectes, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden architects + urbanistes, Kobayashi + Zedda Architects Ltd., Whitehorse, Piskwepaq Design Inc. di Richard Kroeker e Brian Lilley, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, Patkau Architects, Pin/Matthews and Pin/Taylor Architects, Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, Smith Carter Architects and Engineers, Syverson Monteyne Architecture

Secondary Projects: Aedifica Architecture + Design + Engineering, Marc Boutin Architect, Bregman + Hamann Architects, Linda Chapman Architect/Christopher Simmonds Architect, Diamond and Schmitt Architects Inc., Hughes Condon Marler Architects, Manasc Isaac Architects, Marshall Tittemore Architects, Salter Farrow Pilon Architects, Stantec Architecture Ltd. (in collaboration with Arthur Erickson)

Commissioner: Cambridge Galleries. Curators: John McMinn, Marco Polo. Vice-Curator: Steve Mykoln. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

CHILE

Commissioner: Claudia Barattini. Venue: Artiglierie, Arsenale

CHINA, People’s Republic of China

Ge Ming, Liu Jiakun, Li Xinggang, Tong Ming, Liu Kecheng

Commissioners: Beijing One World Culture Communications Co.Ltd, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art. Curators: Zhang Yonghe, Zhong Acheng. Venue: Giardino delle Vergini, Arsenale

CYPRUS, Republic of

Commissioner: Petros Dymiotis. Vice-Commissioner: Angela Skordi. Venue: Spazio Eventi at Mondadori Bookshop, San Marco 1345

CROATIA

Zara Urban Space, Out There: Architecture Beyond Building

Nikola Bašic

Commissioner: Branko Siladin. Curator: Branko Franceschi. Vice-Commissioner: Hrvoje Hrabak. Venue: Artiglierie, Arsenale

CZECH REPUBLIC and SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Sideways

zerozero untd

Commissioners: Alexandra Kusa, Monika Mitasova. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

DENMARK

ECO-topedia - walk the talk

Commissioner: Kent Martinussen. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

EGYPT

The Shadow of Geometry

Yahia Shawkat

Commissioner: Tarek Waly. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

ESTONIA

Maarja Kask, Neeme Külm, Ralf Lõoke

Commissioner: Laila Põdra. Curator: Ingrid Ruudi. Vice-Commissioner: Liivi Haamer. Venue: Artiglierie, Arsenale

FINLAND

Store and Share - Finnish Museums and Libraries

1. Turun taidemuseo / Turku Art Museum, Annex and Renovation, Finland, 2000 – 02 / 2003 – 04: Tiitta Itkonen, Ola Laiho, Assi Sandelin

2. Näyttelykeskus WeeGee / The WeeGee Exhibition Centre(alteration of an industrial building for cultural purposes), Espoo, Finland, 2006: Timo Airas, Henna Helander

3. Merikeskus Vellamo / Maritime Centre Vellamo, Kotka, Finland, 2008 (under construction): Ilmari Lahdelma

4. Saamelaismuseo ja Ylä-Lapin luontokeskus Siida / Sámi Museum and Notrhern Lapland Nature Centre Siida, Enontekiö, Finland, 1996 - 98: Juhani Pallasmaa

5. Helsingin yliopiston keskustakampuksen kirjasto / City Campus Library, Helsinki University, competition entry, 1st prize, 2008: Vesa Oiva,Jussi Kalliopuska

6. Turku pääkirjasto / Turku City Library, Turku, Finland, 2007: Asmo Jaaksi, Teemu Kurkela, Samuli Miettinen, Juhani Mäki-Jyllilä, Mikko Rossi, Katja Savolainen, Päivi Meuronen

7. Vuotalo / Vuosaari House Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland, 1997 - 2000: Markku Komonen, Mikko Heikkinen

8.Tritonia Vaasan tiedekirjasto / The Tritonia Academic Libarary: Käpy Paavilainen, Simo Paavilainen

Commissioner: Severi Blomstedt. Curator: Roy Mänttäri. Vice-Curator: Hannu Hellman. Venue: Alvar Aalto Pavilion at Giardini

FRANCE

GénéroCité

Marc Barani, Frederic Borel, Beckmann & N‘Thepé, Berthelier , Fichet & Tribouillet, Boudry& Boudry, Chartier & Corbasson, Combarel & Marrec, Sophie Delhay, Nicolas Michelin, Duncan Lewis, Fgp, Edouard Francois, Philippe Gazeau, Manuelle Gautrand, Hamonic & Masson, Herault & Arnod, Hondelatte & Laporte, Jakob & Mc Farlane, Lacaton & Vassal, Lipsky & Rollet, Stephane Maupin, Jacques Moussafir, Nicolas Michelin, Nourrigat & Brion, Peripheriques, Plan 01, Platform, Rudy Ricciotti, Francis Soler, Searc‘H.

Commissioner: Francis Rambert. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

GEORGIA

From Ideas to Buildings

David Abuladze, Giorgi Giorgadze, George Kvitsinashvili, Vasil Kobulia, Gocha Mikiashvili, Nino Tsomaia, Nicholas Shavishvili, Nikoloz Abashidze, Givi Kobulia, Besarion Tatishvili, Otar Vardanashvili, George Beridze, Archil Mikuchadze, Nodar Iremashvili, Koba Morchiladze, Tengiz GogolaShvili, Kakha Koridze, Dabid Makharoblishvili, Teimuraz Khojava, Levan Maskharashvili

Commissioner: David Abuladze. Vice-Commissioners: Archil Mikuchadze, Elisabed Giorgadze. Venue: to be finalized

GERMANY

Updating Germany. Projects for a Better Future

Commissioners: Friedrich von Borries, Matthias Böttger. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

GREECE

to be confirmed

HUNGARY

Corpora in Si(gh)te

doubleNegatives Architecture: Sota Ichikawa, Max Rheiner, Ákos Maróy, Kaoru Kobata

Commissioner: Zsolt Petrányi. Curator: Gyula Július. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

IRELAND

The Lives of Spaces

Dara McGrath + Robinson MCIIlwaine, De Paor Architects, Grafton Architects, Hassett Ducatez Architects, Gerry Cahill Architects, Patrick Lynch + Simon Walker, McCullough Mulvin Architects, O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects, TAKA

Commissioners / Curators: Nathalie Weadick, Hugh Campbell. Venue: Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, San Vidal, San Marco 2893

ISRAEL

Additions

Romy Achituv, Yoram Amir, Asif Berman, Liran Chechick, Yonatan Cohen, Yossi Cory, Dan Handel, Oded Kutok, Jonathan Rokem, Jan Tichy, Tom Tlalim, Yanai Toister, Alma Tzur, Tzahi Vazana, Shachaf Zait

Commissioners: Michal Cederbaum, Nitzan Kalush Chechick, Arad Turgeman, Ilan Wizgan, Yeala Shaviv. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

ITALY

MINISTERO PER I BENI CULTURALI E LE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI

PARC – Direzione generale per la qualità e la tutela del paesaggio, l’architettura e l’arte contemporanee

and Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia

Housing Italy. 12 Projects for Inhabiting and Re-inhabiting the City

Andrea Branzi, Baukuh, Studio Albori, Francesco Cellini, Mario Cucinella, Luca Emanueli¸ Ian+, Marco Navarra_NOWA, Italo Rota, Salottobuono, Beniamino Servino, Stalker / Osservatorio nomade

Commissioner: Carla Di Francesco. Curator: Francesco Garofalo. Venue: Prima Tesa delle Vergini, Arsenale


JAPAN

Extreme Nature - Small Pavilions

Junya Ishigami, Hideaki Ohba

Commissioner: Taro Igarashi. Vice-Commissioners: Rie Takauchi, Jun Takeshita. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

KOREA, Republic of

Kitai Park, Youngjoon Kim, Florian Beigel, Jiwoong Hong, Kiung Yi

Commissioner: Seung H - Sang. Curators: Moongyu Choi, Hyungmin Pai. Vice-Commissioner: Francesco Sanin. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

LATVIA

Dust Room

Eriks Bozis, Reinis Liepins

Commissioner: Sergejs Nikiforovs. Vice-Commissioner: Paivi Tirkkonen. Venue: Riva S. Biagio, Castello 2145

LUXEMBOURG, Grand Duchy of

Point of View. 4 Questions. 44 Answers.

Marie-Claude Beaud, Massimo Carmassi, Jo Coenen, Dietmar Eberle, Ingeborg Flagge, Leon Krier, Guy Rewenig, Rudy Ricciotti, Polaris, Heinz Tesar, Bert Theis

Commissioner / Curator: M. Christian Bauer. Vice-Curators: Tatiana Fabeck, M. Bohdan Paczowski. Venue: Ca’ del Duca, Corte del Duca Sforza, San Marco 3052

MACEDONIA, Former Yugoslav Republic Of

Metamak – Cut Outs

Vlatko P. Korobar, Martin Guleski, Minas Bakalcev, Mitko Hadži Pulja, Saša Tasic, Dimitar Papasterevski, Jovan Ivanovski, Dejan Ivanovski, Ana Ivanovska, Vladimir Deskov, Iskra Anastasova, Vladimir Lekovski

Commissioner: Frosina Zafirovska. Curators: Vlatko P. Korobar, Minas Bakalcev, Mitko Hadži Pulja. Vice-Commissioner: Jovan Šurbanoski. Venue: Palazzo Zenobio, Ex Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael, Dorsoduro 2596

MEXICO

to be confirmed

MONTENEGRO, Republic of

From Arsenal to Porto Montenegro

Commissioner: Goran Radovic. Venue: to be finalized

NETHERLANDS

Commissioner: Ole Bauman. Curator: Saskia van Stein. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

NORWAY

Architect S V E R R E F E H N intuition – reflection – construction

Sverre Fehn

Commissioners: Eva Madshus. Vice-Commissioners: Martin Dietrichson, Ulf Grønvold, Anne Marit Lunde, Gennaro Postiglione.
Venue: Nordic Pavilion at Giardini

POLAND

Hotel Polonia

Nicolas Grospierre, Kobas Laksa

Commissioner: Agnieszka Morawinska. Curators: Grzegorz Piatek, Jaroslaw Trybus. Vice-Commissioner: Zofia Machnicka. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

PORTUGAL

Cá Fora / Out Here

Eduardo Souto de Moura, Ângelo de Sousa

Commissioners: Joaquim Moreno, José Gil. Venue: Fondaco Marcello, San Marco 3415

ROMANIA

Commissioner: Marius Marcu-Lapadat. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

RUSSIA

Chess-play for Russia

Nikolaj Polissky

Russian team: Alexander Asadov, Alexey Bavykin, Mikhail Belov, Andrey Bokov, Dmitry Bush, Andrej Chernihov, Yuri Grigorian, Sergej Kiselev, Boris Leviant, Nicolaj Lyzlov, Vladimir Plotkin, Alexander Skokan, Sergej Skuratov, Sergej Tkachenko, Mikhail Filippov, Mikhail Hazanov, Nikita Yavein

Foreign team: David Adjaye, William Alsop, Erick van Egeraat, Norman Foster, Nilolas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid, KPF, Tomas Leeser, Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Gaetano Pesce, Peter Schweger, Sergej Tchoban, SOM, Rafael Vinoly, Chris Wilkinson, Jean Michel Wilmotte, Chris Wilkinson

Commissioner: Vasili Tsereteli. Curators: Pavel Khoroshilov, Grigory Revzin. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

SAN MARINO, Republic of

South Out There. Projects for the South of the World: water, hygiene and health

Commissioner: Leo Marino Morganti. Curator: Gaddo Morpugno. Venue: UNESCO, Palazzo Zorzi, Castello 4930

SERBIA

Commissioner: Milenko Nikic. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

SINGAPORE

Commissioner: Milton Tan. Venue: Istituto Provinciale per l'Infanzia "Santa Maria della Pietà", Castello 3701

SLOVENIA, Republic of

Ljubljana-Venice, New Urgency for Urban Politics

Aleksander S. Ostan, Miha Kerin, Majda Kregar, Janko Rožic, Edo Ravnikar jr, Gašper Drašler, Roman Šoper, Martin Ravnikar, Smiljan Buzeti

Commissioner / Curator: Janko Rožic. Venue: Galleria A+A, San Samuele, San Marco 3073

SPAIN

Spain From Building To Architecture Without Paper

Commissioners/Curators: Soledad del Pino Iglesias, Ángel Fernández Alba. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini


SWITZERLAND

Explorations: Teaching, Design, Research

Laboratoire de la production d'architecture (LAPA): Harry Gugger, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Atelier de la conception de l'espace (ALICE): Dieter Dietz, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

MAS Urban Transformation in Developing Territories (MAS UTDT): Marc Angélil, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)

Gramazio & Kohler, Architektur und Digitale Fabrikation: Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)

Commissioner: Urs Staub. Curator: Reto Geiser. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

UKRAINE
The Universal Container. Shelter for God

Valentin Rayevsky, group NCA-Fond

Commissario: Igor Shpara. Curatore: Olilga Milentiy. Curatore aggiunto: Valentin Rayevsky. Spazio espositivo: in via di definizione

UNITED KINGDOM

Translations: Five architects build housing in Britain and Europe

Sergison Bates, Tony Fretton, De Rijke Marsh Morgan, Witherford Watson Mann, Maccreanor Lavington

Commissioner: Emily Campbell. Curator: Ellis Woodman. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Into The Open: Positioning Practice

The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Estudio Teddy Cruz, Design Corps, Detroit Collaborative Design Center, The Edible Schoolyard, Gans studio, The Heidelberg Project, The International Center for Urban Ecology, Jonathan Kirschenfeld Associates, Rebar, Ted Smith, Spatial Information Design Lab, Studio 804, Rural Studio

Commissario/Curatore: William Menking. Curatori: Aaron Levy, Andrew Sturm. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini

URUGUAY

Lup + Tango

Commissioner: Marcelo Danza. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

VENEZUELA

Venezuela construye una esperanza

Commissioner: Juan Pedro Posani. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini.

ISTITUTO ITALO-LATINO AMERICANO (Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru)

America latina: Vistas y re-vistas de un continente

Commissioner: Patricia Rivadeneira. Curator: Paola Pisanelli. Vice-Commissioner: Alessandra Bonanni. Venue: Artiglierie, Arsenale

Billboard Project in the city

Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco, 3198 (San Samuele)

from September 14th to November 23rd

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

www.museoscienza.org

Check-in Architecture

Venue to be confirmed

from September 14th to November 23rd

Check-in Architecture is a participative research project. It invites artists, architects, designers and sociologists studying in some of Europe’s most prestigious universities to describe our cities through documentary films lasting around 3 minutes.

Organization: Metalab

www.checkinarchitecture.com

Dark City

Palazzo delle Prigioni, San Marco, Castello, 4209

from September 11th to November 23rd

The project is not a work of building but rather a “pre-architecture”. It has no confusions with forms but returns space to a "primordial" state before building: the bodily space of Taiwan.

Organization: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

www.ntmofa.gov.tw

Fabrica Cultura (Cultura Fabricate): Hong Kong in Venice

Arsenale, Castello, 2126 (Campo della Tana)

from September 11th to November 23rd

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: The Hong Kong Institute of Architects and Hong Kong Arts Development Council

www.hkia.net

www.hkadc.org.hk

www.venicebiennale.hk

Le Corbusier’s Legacy Beyond Architecture

Venue to be confirmed

September 13th

The debate, will consider the architect’s continuing legacy as an artist, urbanist and polemicist. Advisors include Professor Joseph Rykwert, Paul Finch, Dr Charles Jencks.

Organization: RIBA Trust

www.architecture.com

SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE. Rethinking the “infinite potentialities”

In Homage to Luigi Nono

Scuola dei Mercanti, Cannaregio, 3933 (Campo della Madonna dell’ Orto)

Archivio Luigi Nono, Giudecca, 619-621

from September 11th to October 31st

Spaces of images, spaces of sound and the challenge of crossing over. SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE 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

www.artimage.at

The Bearable Lightness of Being – The Metaphor of the Space

Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Cannaregio, 3764 (Calle Racchetta)

from September 13th to November 23rd

The place is not only a physical space, but also a cultural space: pay attention to the space means pay attention to the landscape, the context, the territory, and also to the feelings and the multi perceptions that they provoke.

Organization: Fondazione Mudima

www.mudima.net

The Architect’s Universe. Jørn Utzon

Palazzo Franchetti, San Marco, 2842 (Campo Santo Stefano)

from September 10th to November 2nd

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

www.louisiana.dk

“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 11th to November 23rd

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”

Venue to be confirmed

September 13th

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

www.iuav.it

Wednesday, 10 September
11:00 Billboard Project in the city – Patrick MimranWhenWed, 10 Sep, 11:00 – Sun, 23 Nov,

18:00WherePalazzo Malipiero, San Marco, 3198 (San Samuele) I-30124 Venezia (map)DescriptionThe exhibition presents 30 photographic works of Patrick Mimran, taken between 2001 and today, testifying the interventions Mimran realised when working on the Billboard Project. It is curated by Alessandra de Bigontina. Organization: Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci” di Milano www.museoscienza.org more details» copy to my calendar

11:00 The Architect’s Universe. Jørn Utzon

Thursday, 11 September
All day Billboard Project in the city – Patrick MimranAll day The Architect’s Universe. Jørn Utzon

10:00 BornHouse

10:30 Next-Gene 20: Ao-Di Grand Land Architecture International Project, Taipei

11:00 Dark City

11:00 Fabrica Cultura (Cultura Fabricate): Hong Kong in Venice

11:00 Hall of Fragments by DAVID ROCKWELL with CASEY JONES + REED KROLOFF

11:30 A Gathering Space / Scotland and Venice 2008

12:00 SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE. Rethinking the “infinite potentialities” In Homage to Luigi Nono

13:30 Curry Stone Design Prize

18:00 RIBA Journal Debate: Off centre20:00 The Glasgow School of Art: The Urban Laboratory and the City Model

Friday, 12 September
All day Billboard Project in the city – Patrick Mimran

All day The Architect’s Universe. Jørn UtzonAll day BornHouseAll day Next-Gene 20: Ao-Di Grand Land Architecture International Project, Taipei

All day Dark CityAll day Fabrica Cultura (Cultura Fabricate): Hong Kong in VeniceAll day Hall of Fragments by DAVID ROCKWELL with CASEY JONES + REED KROLOFF

All day A Gathering Space / Scotland and Venice 2008

All day SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE. Rethinking the “infinite potentialities” In Homage to Luigi NonoAll day Curry Stone Design Prize

11:00 1? to 66?: Architecture in Canada. Region, Culture, Tectonics

11:00 A Gathering Space (Scottish Pavilion)

11:00 Lotus: Zaha Hadid Architects

16:00 Book launch for Modernity and Reinvention: The Architecture of James Gowan by Ellis Woodman.

19:00 RIBA Journal Debate: Off centre

Saturday, 13 September
All day Billboard Project in the city – Patrick MimranAll day The Architect’s Universe. Jørn UtzonAll day BornHouseAll day Next-Gene 20: Ao-Di Grand Land Architecture International Project, TaipeiAll day Dark CityAll day Fabrica Cultura (Cultura Fabricate): Hong Kong in VeniceAll day Hall of Fragments by DAVID ROCKWELL with CASEY JONES + REED KROLOFF

All day A Gathering Space / Scotland and Venice 2008All day SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE. Rethinking the “infinite potentialities” In Homage to Luigi NonoAll day Curry Stone Design Prize

All day 1? to 66?: Architecture in Canada. Region, Culture, TectonicsAll day A Gathering Space (Scottish Pavilion)All day Lotus: Zaha Hadid Architects

10:00 Between boldness and urbanity: la Défense enlightens the Great Paris.11:00 Matthias Schaller “Fratelli d’Italia”

11:00 The Bearable Lightness of Being – The Metaphor of the Space10:00 British Pavillion debate: How Lovely is Thy Dwelling

12:00 Le Corbusier’s Legacy: Local + Global

15:00 Tony Fretton book signing