The Venice Architecture Biennale opened today; here are some shots of the exhibits in the Cordiere building at the Arsenale, one of the Biennale’s two main venues. Above: Prototyping the Future: Three houses for the subconscious by Asymptote
This year’s exhibition is called Out There: Architecture Beyond Building and is directed by Aaron Betsky. Above: Lotus by Zaha Hadid Architects
Above: Ungapatchket by Gehry Partners
Above: Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf in digital age? by Penezić and Rogina Architects
Above: The Changing Room by UNStudio (see our earlier story for more info)
Above: Hyperhabitat: reprogramming the world by Guallart Architects/IIAC/MIT/The Centre for Bits and Atoms/Bestiario
Above: Aranda/Lausch
Above: naked saw-playing performance
Above: Singletown by Droog and KesselsKramer
Above: Recycled Toy Furniture by Greg Lynn
Above: Furnivehicle by Atelier Bow-Wow
Above: Formation(re)formation by Barkow Leibinger
Above: Mobile Chinatown by MAD (see our previous story for more info)
Above: Iwasthere (Chile)
September 11th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Worthy…
How much is easyjet this time of the year..?
September 11th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
can we get pics of philippe rahm’s installation please?
September 11th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
hmmm…must visit must be a must
September 11th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
trite drivel
September 12th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Sorry, but looks kinda lame from the pics. If it wasn’t mostly the usual suspects (as usual), but rather more hungry younger talent, I bet the installations would’ve been much stronger…
September 12th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Out there and far-out.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
booooooring
September 12th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
rubbish !
September 13th, 2008 at 12:42 am
it looks like every architecture firm has a “brand shape-style-look” and they did an scale model of their massive projects around the world..and they put the sculture there…IS THAT A EXPO OF THE NEW OR AVANT GARDE ARCHITECTURE?… i dont think so….(except the IACC-MIT.GUALLART one)
September 15th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Sad, no one has anything to say apart from “Buy made in China!” (OK, maybe “Naked in China”). Also, when is someone going to tell Frank “Goldberg” Gehry that his Bilbao party trick has worn out?
September 15th, 2008 at 6:33 am
boring
September 15th, 2008 at 10:11 am
that comment “boring” from D was exceptionally dull.
I like these arty sculptural /conceptual eyecandy posts they do sometimes.
Why do all the posts have to be serious and “worthy” all the time?
a bit of fluff and visual junkfood is great now and again.
(not that im saying the above is junky fluff or anything, you get my drift im sure…)
September 15th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
The naked saw playing is the most interesting of the lot….it’s the closest to art – the rest are neither close to art nor architecture….more like bad retail window displays.
max hsbib – “trite drivel”….that’s the best term I’ve heard in a while!