Venice Biennale 2016: AA’s review (1/2)
Freshly back from Venise, AA’s editorial team has put together a review of the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture. Vernacular architecture, materials reuse, ancestral know-how, temporary cities… many topics address this year’s “Reporting from the front” theme, proposed by Alejandro Aravena. Today, have a look at a selection of projects exhibited in the Giardini.
Danish Pavilion : “Art of Many: The Right to Space”, Boris Brorman Jensen and Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss.
Central Pavilion : “L’Architetto Condotto”, Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Genoa, Italy) et G124 (Senator Renzo Piano’s working group, Rome).
Central Pavilion : Kashef Chowdhury / Urbana (Dhaka, Bangladesh).
Central Pavilion : “Orphan Ground”, Renato Rizzi (Venice, Italy).
Central Pavilion : “People Mountain People Sea – A celebration of everyday life”, Jiakun Architects (Chengdu, China), Liu Jiakun.
Central Pavilion : “Andes’ shadow”, elton_léniz (Santiago, Chili), Mirene Elton and Mauricio Léniz.
Central Pavilion : “79 Collective housing units in Bègles” and “Urban renovation of Lormont Génicart district (2009-2015)”, LAN (Paris, France), Umberto Napolitano and Benoît Jallon.
Spanish Pavilion : “Unfinished”, by Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintáns.
Spanish Pavilion : “Unfinished”, by Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintáns.
French Pavilion : “Nouvelles Richesses”, by Frédéric Bonnet (Obras) and the Collectif AJAP 14.
Central Pavilion : Forensic Architecture (London, UK), Eyal Weizman.
For more information, the Venice Architecture Biennale official website.