... > Cities, Architecture & Society



Main sections of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition
 
The 10th International Architecture Exhibition will take place from 10 September to 19 November 2006, directed by Richard Burdett. Dedicated to Cities, architecture and society , this edition focuses on the key factors facing large scale metropolitan areas around the world: from migration to mobility, from social integration to sustainable growth.

A novelty of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition is the addition of two collateral sections, the Cities of Stone project in Venice, and City-Port in Palermo which complement and expand the theme of the international exhibition by exploring specific urban themes and conditions in southern Italy.

50 Countries have accepted the Venice Biennale's invitation to take part in the 10th International Architecture Exhibition. The City, in its many-sided aspects, is a key subject that each Country can deal with under a specific and original perspective.



from  www.labiennale.org

... > Cities, Architecture & Society



“More than half of the world’s population lives in cities”, states the Director of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition, Richard Burdett. “A century ago, it was less than 10%. The 21st century will be the first truly urban era, in which more than 75% of the world’s population will live in urban areas, much of it in mega-cities with more than 20 million inhabitants concentrated in the countries undergoing rapid development in Asia ,Africa and South America . In the meantime, many Western and European cities are shrinking, or have been forced to re-invent themselves in order to adapt to a post-industrial condition.

The aim is both to inform and provoke a debate on the way we shape the future of urban society, just at the point that cities represent such a critical mass of the global agenda. It is an attempt to re-engage the physical structure of cities – their buildings, spaces and streets which is the domain of architects and urban designers – with the social, cultural and economic dimensions of urban existence. Despite, the informed perceptions of urban thinkers – from Jane Jacobs to Aldo Rossi , from Saskia Sassen to Rem Koolhaas – the architectural profession has perhaps been overly insulated from this interdisciplinary debate. By bringing the everyday life of cities from around the world to Venice, and by inviting research institutions to share their visions for urban intervention, the 10th International Architecture Exhibition Cities, architecture and society  is designed to make a cultural contribution to one of the most press ing social questions facing mankind in the 21st century.”

Using photography, film and mixed-media presentations, Cities, architecture and society has been designed by Aldo Cibic and Luigi Marchetti - Cibic&Partners to recreate the urban experiences of 16 world cities in four different continents within the 300-metre long Corderie dell’Arsenale. These include: Barcelona , Spain (population: 4,424,000); Berlin, Germany (population: 3,328,000); Bogotá , Colombia (population: 7,594,000); Cairo , Egypt (population: 11,146,000); Caracas , Venezuela (population: 3,276,000); Istanbul, Turkey (population: 9,760,000); Johannesburg , South Africa (population: 3,288,000); London , Great Britain (population: 7,615,000); Los Angeles United States (population: 12,146,000); Mexico City , Mexico (population: 19,013,000); Milan-Torino , Italy (population: 4,007,000 and 1,182,000); Mumbai , India (population: 18,336,000); New York , United States (population: 18,498,000); São Paulo , Brazil (population: 18,333,000); Shanghai , China (population: 12,665,000); and Tokyo , Japan (population: 35,327,000).

The exhibition will not only feature information and data on how these cities are being transformed in social, economic and cultural terms but also display new architectural and urban projects that are affecting the way people live, work and move in the dense metropolitan environment of these world cities.

The Padiglione Italia will be transformed into a window on the state-of-the-art of urban research in cities. Twelve influential research and teaching institutions from Italy ,Mexico ,India ,Germany ,Great Britain ,Holland ,Switzerland ,UK and the USA will display design work and ideas on cities, reflecting the current re-engagement of the architectural profession with social and economic processes. The Berlage Institute form Rotterdam will describe different ways of reading and intervening in different urban conditions. Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA/AMO) will present recent research on Lagos and Dubai . The ETH Basel Contemporary City Studio will show an analytical portrait of Switzerland and its emerging urban geographies. The MIT Senseable Cities Laboratory will show original digital mapping on Real Time Rome, tracking mobile phone and movement patterns. The University of Texas at Austin is exploring the social and political impacts of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and other cities affected by the natural disaster. The Universidad Iberoamericana , the Urban Design Research Institute and the Istituto Universitario Architettura Venezia (IUAV) will analyse the relationship between urban design and global change in Mexico City , Mumbai and Venice and its regional hinterland. The Royal College of Art in London will develop concepts of the emerging ‘ecstacity’ as a reflection on contemporary urban life. The Architecture Foundation in London and The MoMA will collaborate to an innovative media project to realize a live radio station during the Venice Biennale preview. The Schrumpfende Städte - Shrinking Cities project will describe the effect of de-industrialisation on the quality of life in European and American cities. The central space of the Padiglione Italia will be dedicated to an exhibition of city photographs curated by C-Photo Magazine , providing a historic panorama of how cities have captured the imagination of photographers and artists around the globe for over a century.

Under the overarching theme of Cities, architecture and society , there are a number of significant collateral events and initiatives that provide a truly global perspective on cities in addition to the main exhibition on sixteen world cities within the Corderie. These collateral sections, under the banner of the Italian government’s Sensi Contemporanei project , include Claudio d’Amato Guerrieri ’s exhibition, Cities of Stone , to be held at the Artiglierie dell’Arsenale in Venice, and Rinio Bruttomesso ’s exhibition, City-Port , which will take place in Palermo.

50 countries have already confirmed their participation in the 10th International Architecture Exhibition, providing a unique overview on how architects, planners and designers are responding different urban complexities around the world. The national pavilions will feature a range of urban and architectural projects responding to the press ures of contemporary life: migration, urban sprawl, de-industrialisation and social change. The examples presented include the case of extreme suburbanisation in Ireland , exponential urban growth in Asia , racial exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa , the effect of new architecture in the urban regeneration of towns and cities of northern England .and a new vision of the city in Italy .

Over twenty architecture schools from Italy and abroad will be invited to engage with the core theme of the Cities, Architecture and Society exhibition, and their work will be displayed in the Padiglione Italia from 8-19 November 2006. The Learning from cities project will be co-ordinated by Francesco Garofalo .

 During the three months that the exhibition is open, a series of conferences , co-ordinated by Guido Martinotti , will explore the central themes of urban governance, mobility and the quality of urban life.

With its diverse insights, initiatives and perspectives, the Padiglione Italia and individual displays within the national pavilions will complement the detailed narratives of 16 world cities and, in tandem with the Cities of Stone exhibition in the Arsenale , will provide the visitor to this Architecture Biennale with a rich and diverse experience of urban life. The 10 th Architecture Exhibition will conclude with a manifesto for the cities of the 21st century dedicated to the potential contribution that architecture and urban design can make to a more sustainable, democratic and fair world.

Cities, architecture and society will be accompanied by a monograph published by Marsilio , covering the themes and contents of the international exhibition at the Corderie dell’Arsenale , with essays by Richard Burdett and Saskia Sassen as well as interviews with architects and social critics on the interactions between architecture and the city. It will also include profiles of the selected cities with comparative data on social and economic change, and insights into the key aspects of city life as well as summaries of the work presented by international research institutions featured in the Padiglione Italia. A second volume documents the exhibitions in the national pavilions, collateral events, conferences and special projects.


Richard Burdett (London , 1956) who was brought up in Rome , is an architect and urbanist based in London . He is Centennial Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at the London School of Economics and architectural adv iser to the Mayor of London. His expertise lies in understanding the links between architecture, urban design and urban society. Burdett has played a key role in institutions that have shaped the culture of architecture in the UK – the 9H Gallery, the Architecture Foundation, the LSE Cities Programme, the Mayor’s Architecture and Urbanism Unit and the UK government’s Urban Task Force. He is an adv iser to public and private organisations including the Tate, the BBC and NM Rothschild, and sits on the Mayor of Barcelona’s Quality Committee. He has been a jury member of many international design competitions including the MAXXI in Rome , the Tate Modern in London , the Forum 2004 in Barcelona and a new residential district in Beijing . He runs a series of annual meeting attended by European Mayors and is responsible for the ‘Urban Age’ series of international conferences held in global cities including New York ,Shanghai ,London ,Berlin ,Mexico City and Johannesburg . Burdett has curated over 40 exhibitions on contemporary architecture and urban design, is a regular commentator on architecture and cities in the international press and media.

... > Cities Of Stone



Cities of Stone - curated by Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri 
A collateral section of the Sensi Contemporanei project
Venice , Artiglierie dell’Arsenale - 10th September to 19th November 2006

Cities of Stone a collateral section of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition curated by Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri , and organized within the framework of the Sensi Contemporanei project , is dedicated to the cities whose principal characteristic was having been conceived and organically built in stone until the decline of the structural conceptions based on load-bearing masonry decreed the end of the critical and constructional success of this material. “An exhibition – explains Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri – that arises from the conviction that there are Mediterranean architectural ideals that exist and continue to be vital today, but they risk being swept away; and that there is a need for a strong critical conscience to contrast the threat arising from the processes of cultural homologation at work on a planetary scale.” Mediterranean cities are cities of stone, directly generated by the Greek and Roman civilization, by its particular form of rationality, whose esthetic values over time have become ideals shared by Western culture. The exhibition project raises a series of questions about the dominating models that govern the urban and landscape transformations in progress, and about alternative hypotheses to those founded on the myth of a deconstructed modernist architecture, devoid of memory, uprooted from its tradition.

Cities of Stone intends to raise the question of the critical recognition, in a thematic area that is rarely explored in research, of the potential relevance of the culture of masonry, understood not only as continuity with traditional building techniques, but also as a process of radically updating them.

The section will be held in the Artiglierie dell’Arsenale , and entry will be greeted by a 15-meter tall obelisk and a barrel vault 6 meters in diameter. Two prototypes of the art of modern stone-cutting (stereotomy) which will concretely demonstrate new possibilities in the structural use of this ancient yet highly modern material. The first of the three exhibition areas into which the section is divided, entitled The Other Modernity, presents spectacular two and three dimensional reconstructions illustrating the golden age of 1930’s masonry architecture: giant black and white photographic prints and models made with rapid prototyping will illustrate the principal issues that brought fame to the cities of the southern Mediterranean, from Algiers to Thessaloniki, from Rhodes and the Dodecanese to the foundation cities in Italy and Libya, from Alexandria to Tirana. An in-depth analysis is made of the construction method and the architectural language which reinterpreted the tradition of great inventions such as the seafront walkways, all the way back to the ancient origins represented by the Greek cities, which revolutionized their era. The first modern city in history, Alexander the Great’s Alexandria , designed by Dinocrates, is the object of special attention, through the reconstruction of the lighthouse, one of the symbols of this exhibition.

Stereotomic Architecture borrows the themes proposed by the actual size of the obelisk and vault at the entrance: it is dedicated to illustrating the principles of renewed stereotomic art: on exhibit are two models of stone bridges dedicated to the city of Venice .

Project South (Progetto Sud ) is the true heart of the exhibition and will present the results of an international competition for ideas focusing on four sites in southern Italy : Punta Perotti in Bari ; the port of Crotone ; the Latomie dei Cappuccini in Siracusa; the tourist port in Pantelleria. A debate surrounding ideas dedicated to the themes of landscape restoration in southern Italy , beginning with the demolition of the speculative buildings that have obfuscated its beauty in recent decades. Project South harks back to Progetto Venezia, promoted the first time by Aldo Rossi in 1985, which launched the idea of an architectural exhibition as a free platform for ideas, and intends to be a tribute to the figure and the work of a master.

The design proposals will be evaluated by an international jury presided by Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri.

The website www.labiennale.archinauti.it, created for this occasion, will accompany professionals and potential visitors through the date of inauguration, describing the progress and the stages of adv ancement of the project.

An international congress dedicated to the subjects treated in this section will take place in Venice in November.

The catalogue, published by Marsilio , will be articulated in two volumes: a thematic monograph and a volume on Project South .

 
Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri (Bari , 1944) is a professor of Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Bari and has been Dean of the same Faculty. Internationally, he has promoted, coordinated and developed many projects concerning the Balkan areas and in general the Mediterranean and the Middle-East.

... > City - Port



City - Port - curated by Rinio Bruttomesso 
A collateral section within the framework of the Sensi Contemporanei project
Palermo - 15th October 2006 to 14th January 2007

City – Port ,a collateral section of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition curated by Rinio Bruttomesso, and organized within the framework of the Sensi Contemporanei project, is articulated into four exhibitions located, for the first time in the history of the Biennale di Venezia, in Palermo in three different venues , and will be exhibited in other port cities in southern Italy in 2007.

City – Port. Local Gate to the Global Market will be the international exhibition hosted in the splendid nineteenth-century Palazzo Forcella de Seta, kindly made available by the Sicilian chapter of ANCE and currently being restored by architect Italo Rota, who is also responsible for the design of the exhibition. Organized in collaboration with Puertos del Estado – Ministerio de Formento, Spain, and the Korea Land Corporation, Seoul, Korea, it will present a panorama of 15 case studies of port cities on different continents, with plans and projects involving their urban-port waterfronts: Oslo, Helsinki, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Rosario (Argentina), Valparaiso (Chile), Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Cape Town, Incheon (Korea), Yokohama, Sydney, Genoa and Venice. A special space will be dedicated to the city-ports of Spain , which relied on a concept of national system not only to modernize their ports, but to make their port cities more livable, by revitalizing their waterfronts with results that often achieve absolute excellence.

City – Port. Great South , located in the venue of S. Erasmo, will focus on 10 port cities in the south of Italy to offer an overall view of initiatives to requalify urban-port waterfronts, some complete and others in the planning stages, by the city governments and Port Authorities in 5 Italian regions: Pescara in the Abruzzo region; Naples and Salerno in the Campania region; Bari and Brindisi in the Puglia Region; Reggio Calabria in the Calabria region; Catania, Messina, Siracusa and Trapani in Sicily.

City-Port. Palermo, Mediterranean, which is also on exhibit at S. Erasmo given the affinity between the themes, has been produced in collaboration with the Regione Siciliana, the City of Palermo, the Port Authority of Palermo, the Officina di Architettura del Porto, Palermo. The exhibition will be dedicated to Palermo ’s experience in reorganizing its port and its urban waterfront.
The two exhibitions at S. Erasmo , a former locomotive warehouse built at the turn of the twentieth century and belonging to the City of Palermo , have been designed by CLIOSTRAAT (alessandra raso, luca poncellini, matteo raso, stefano testa).

City – Port. Portus Architecture Prize , organized by Expa at the Galleria di Architettura Expa in the ancient stables of Palazzo Cefalà, will present the winning projects in the Portus Architecture Prize for the 7 regions of southern Italy participating in the Sensi Contemporanei project.

The Portus Architecture Prize has been organized under the patronage of the CNAPPC Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori, in collaboration with Inarcassa, Edilizia e Territorio – Il Sole 24 Ore, InArch. The prize is addressed to architects, engineers and landscape architects under the age of 40, who must define solutions for the requalification of urban waterfront zones, selected in the 7 Regions of southern Italy involved in the Sensi Contemporanei project.

 The design projects will be evaluated by an international jury presided by Richard Burdett, Director of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia.
The website www.premioportus.it , created for the occasion, will accompany professionals and potential visitors through the date of inauguration, describing the progress and the stages of adv ancement of the project.
The catalogue, published by Marsilio , will be articulated in two volumes: a thematic monograph and a volume on the Portus Architecture Prize .

 
Rinio Bruttomesso (Italy , 1948), is a professor of City Planning at the IUAV, Venice . Since 1989 he has been Director of the International Centre for Cities on Water in Venice , as well as director of “Portus” magazine. He curated the Cities on Water section (dedicated to the transformation of port cities) in the 9th International Architecture Exhibition, he is an expert on the issues involved in the requalification of urban waterfront areas and on the reuse of industrial archaeology.


KOREA LAND CORPORATION
in collaboration with the project “I.F.E.Z. (Incheon Free Economic Zone)” is one of the participants in the exhibition City-Port. Local Gate to the Global Market within the collateral section entitled City-Port, curated by Rinio Bruttomesso, that will be realized in Palermo on the occasion of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia.

KLC was founded as one of the public institutions affiliated with Korean Ministry of Construction & Transportation to spearhead effective development and management of land and has since been the engine of Korea's economic development and improving standards of living and also strives for more competitiveness in land utilization activities, through effective performance of all related operations including acquisition, management, planning, development, and provision of suitable land.

Structure and Personnel
There are currently 2,200 professional staffs specializing in land, real estate and construction, performing appropriate tasks at the head office, as well as 12 regional offices located throughout the nation.  

Management Philosophy
KLC conducts its land development projects as a means of making vital contributions to the nation's economy, and at the same time improving the welfare of citizens. Also, motto of more efficient business management is carried out not with words alone, but through professionalization and specialization of business ability.

Project Area
Balanced Regional Development, New Town Construction Project , South-North Korea Projects , U-city Project, Free Economic Zone Project , Overseas Development Project

History
1975: The Land Fund established
1979: Expanded and reorganized into Korea Land Development Corporation
1988: Initiated industrial complex development projects
1989: The 1st New Town Development as part of Two Million Housing Units Plan
1996: Renamed Korea Land Corporation
1998: Compensation trust services began
2000: Initiation of National assets management
2001: Initiation of the 2nd New Town Development in the Seoul Metropolitan region
2003: Development of Gaeseong Industrial Area ( North Korea ), Comprehensive regional development plans, Appointed as the chief organization of land information project
Execution of Free Economic Zone Project
2005: Initiation of Multifunctional Administrative city and Innovation city

... > Participating Countries



ARGENTINA

Venue Pavilion Italia at Giardini
Commissioner Daniel Silberfaden
Scientific committee Alberto Varas, Jorge Sarquis, Pablo Sztulwark, Claudio Robles
Deputy Commissioners Hernán Bisman, Roberto Busnelli, Julia Cabral
Latitud 33° 41’ S, Longitud 59° 41’ O


AUSTRALIA

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Lucy Turnbull


AUSTRIA

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Wolf D. Prix
City: FORM-SPACE-NET
Hans Hollein (FORM), Friedrich Kiesler (SPACE), Gregor Eichinger (NET)

Venue IKONA Gallery, Salone n. 2 dei Magazzini del Sale
ROCK OVER BAROCK, Young & Beautiful: 7+2
ARTEC Architekten, Urs Bette, DELUGAN MEISSL ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS, the next ENTERprise architects,  Klaus Stattmann, stiefel kramer - vienna/zurich, Wolfgang Tschapeller,  Sophie Grell, Tercer Piso Arquitectos


BELGIUM

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Label Architecture  (Jean-Didier Bergilez, Michel Lefevre, Thibaut Rome, guest: Véronique Patteeuw)
La beauté de l’ordinaire
Label Architecture with the participation of Bouil Lanners, Jean-Marie Halleux, Claude Javeau, Dieter Lesage, Christophe Van Gerrewey

 
BRAZIL

Venue Pavilion ai Giardini
Commissioner  Manoel Francisco Pires da Costa
Curator Jacopo Crivelli Visconti


CANADA

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioners Greg Bellerby, Chris Macdonald
SweaterLodge
Pechet and Robb Studio

 
CHILE

Venue not defined yet
Commissioners Alejandro Manriquez, Patricia Rivadeneira
Plaza de la Ciudadania, Santiago de Chile
Cristian Undurraga

 
CHINA (People’s Republic of China)

Venue Giardino delle Vergini
Commissioner Fan Dì An
Curator Wang Mingxian


CROATIA

Venue Pavilion Italia at Giardini
Commissioner Andrija Rusan
Curator Vedran Mimica
In between the systems
Idis Turato and Saša Randic

Venue not defined yet
Curators Vedran Mimica, Maroje Mrduljaš, Andrija Rusan
Contemporary croatian architecture – testing the reality

 
CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Radomirá Sedlakova
MetaCity
Ivan Kroupa and a group of his students

 
DENMARK

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Kent Martinussen
Curator Henrik Valuer
Chinese/Danish co-operation on sustainable urban Development in China
Chongqing University, Tongji University Shanghai, Tsinghua University Beijing, Xi’an University of Architecture & Technology,  CEBRA, COBE, EFFEKT, TRANSFORM

 
EGYPT

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Mohamed Awad
Hatem Elsaid


ESTONIA

Venue not defined yet
Commissioner Pille Epner
Curator Ülar Mark
JOINT SPACE
Positium Research (Margus Tiru, Erki Saluveer), Tartu University (Rein Ahas, Anto Aasa, Siiri Silm), Urban Mark Architecture (Ülar Mark, Indrek Tiigi, Kaja Pae, Yoko Alender, Raul Kalvo)

 
FINLAND (Pavilion Aalto)

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Severi Blomstedt
Curator Roy Mänttäri
Assistant Curator Hannu Hellman
City Home

 
FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Venue not defined yet
Commissioner Frosina Zafirovska


FRANCE

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Francis Lacloche
MÉTAVILLA
Patrick Bouchain con Daniel Buren, Michel Onfray, Otar Iosseliani, Lucien Kroll, Igor Dromesko, Exyzt Architecture, Pierre Giner

 
GEORGIA

Venue not defined yet
Commissioner David Abuladze
Past, Present and Future of the capital of Georgia - Tbilisi
David Abuladze, Giorgi Abuladze, David Akhvlediani, Gega Astakhishvili, Giorgi Berideze, Maia Chichinadze, Rati Chomakhidze, Georgi Chqonia, David Danelia, Zviadi  Diakvnishvili, Giorgi Giorgadze, Giorgi Inasaridze, Nodar Iremashvili, Zaza Kikvadze, Nikoloz Kilasonia, Teimuraz Kldiashvili, Givi Kobulia, Vasil Kobulia, George Kvitsinashvili, Rusudan Lashkhi, Dimitri Mamatsashvili, Alekhsandr Mezhevidze, Sandro Mgaloblishvili, Gocha Mikiashvili, George Mirianashvili, Ramaz Mosashvili, Nino Mosulishvili, Sandro Mosulishvili, Rati Partsvania, Nick Shavishvili, Irma Tavdidishvili, Elene Tchitchinadze, Nino Tsomaia,  Irakli Vacheishvili


GERMANY

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioners Armand Gruntuch e Almut Ernst
CONVERTIBLE CITY

 
GREECE

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioners Ilias Constantopoulos, Korina Filoxenidou, Katerina Kotzia, Lois Papadopoulos
THE AEGEAN ARCHIPELAGOS: an aquatic metacity

 
HUNGARY

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Zsolt Petrányi


IRELAND

Venue The Italian Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Shane O'Toole
Curators Michelle Fagan, Paul Kelly & Gary Lysaght of FKL Architects
Deputy Commissioner Ciaran O’Gaora
SuperRural
Boyd Cody Architects, Bucholz McEvoy Architects, de Paor Architects, Dominic Stevens Architects, FKL Architects, Henchion + Reuter, heneghan.peng.architects, macgabhann architects, ODOS architects

 
ISRAEL

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Michael Gov
Curator Tula Amir
Deputy Commissioner Arad Turgeman
Life Saver

 
ITALY

Venue Padiglione italiano, Prima Tesa delle Vergini all’Arsenale
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Dipartimento per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici
DARC – Direzione Generale per l’Architettura e l’Arte Contemporanee
Commissioner Pio Baldi
Curator Franco Purini

Venue Padiglione Venezia ai Giardini
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Dipartimento per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici
DARC – Direzione Generale per l’Architettura e l’Arte Contemporanee
Commissioner Pio Baldi
Curator Margherita Guccione


JAPAN

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Fujimori Terunobu
Deputy Commissioners Okabe Miki, Omori Hiroshi
The architecture of Terunobu Fujimori and the observation on the road
Surrealistic Architecture, urban unconscious
Akasegawa Genpei, Fujimori Terunobu, Hayasho Joji, Matsuda Tetsuo, Minami Shinbo, Sugiura Hinako

 
LATVIA

Venue not defined yet
Commissioner Sergejs Nikiforovs
Curator Ugis Senbergs
Variable House

 
LUXEMBURG

Venue not defined yet
Commissioner François Valentiny


MOROCCO

Venue not defined yet
Commissioner Tajeddine Baddou
Deputy Commissioner Paolo De Grandis

 
NETHERLANDS

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Aaron Betsky
Curator Martien de Vletter


NORDIC COUNTRIES - FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Severi Blomstedt
Arctic Cities: Kiruna, Oulu, Tromsø

FINLAND

Curator coordinator Roy Mänttäri
Assistant Curator Eija Salmi

NORWAY

Curator Eva Madshus
Assistant Curators Knut Eirik Dahl, Ulf Grønvold

SWEDEN

Curators Karin Åberg-Waern, Bitte Nygren


POLAND

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Agnieszka Morawinska
Curator Gabriela Switek
Deputy Commissioner Ewa Wojciechowska
TRANSFER
Jaroslaw Kozakiewicz

 
PORTUGAL

Venue not defined yet
Commissioner Cláudia Taborda
Pancho Guedes, Ricardo Jacinto

 
REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

Venue Palazzo Zenobio, ex collegio Armeno Murad Rafaelian, Dorsoduro 2596
Commissioner Ashot Haykazun Grigoryan
Deputy Commissioner Arà Zarian
NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR THE OLD CITY
Sargis Sardarian, Narek Sargssian, Levon Vardanian

 
REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS

Venue not defined yet
Commissioner Petros Dymiotis
Curators Morpho Papanikolaou, Rena Sakelaridou


REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Joh Sung - Yong
Deputy Commissioners Yi Jong-Ho, Choi Moongyu
Choi Wook, Kim ChanJong, Kim Hun, Kim Seung-Hoy, Shin Haewon
 

REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA

Venue Gallery A+A (San Samuele) San Marco 3073
Commissioner Tomaž Brate
FORMULA NEW LJUBLJANA
Sadar Vuga Arhitekti


REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

Venue Italian Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Lenin Shope
Deputy Commissioner Alwyin Figgins

 
ROMANIA

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Marius Marcu Lapadat
Curatorial Team Justin Baroncea, Ana Bleahu, Ştefan Ghenciulescu, Constantin Goagea, Cosmina Goagea, Carmen Popescu

 
RUSSIA

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Eugeny Zyablov
Curator Eugeny Asse
INHABITED LOCALITY
Alexander Brodsky

 
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner  Spasoje Krunič


SINGAPORE

Venue Istituto Provinciale per l’infanzia “Santa Maria della Pietà”, Castello 3701
Commissioner Milton Tan
Curator Erwin J S Viray
Curatorial Team Randy Chan, Christopher Lee, Budi Wijaya, Tay I-Lin

 
SPAIN

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Manuel Blanco

 
SWITZERLAND

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Urs Staub
Bernard Tschumi


UKRAINE

Participation to be confirmed

 
UNITED KINGDOM

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Emily Campbell
Curator Jeremy Till with Ian Anderson, Ruth Ben – Tovim, Tim Etchells, Hugo Glenfinning, Jim Prevett, Trish O’Shea, Martyn Ware & Sarah Wigglesworth
Deputy Commissioners  Brendan Griggs, Catherine Ince
Echo City
Hawkins Brown, Encounters, Tim Etchells and Hugo Glendinning, Mecanoo, Prevett and McArthur, Sauerbruch Hutton, Studio Egret West, The Designers Republic, Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth, Martyn Ware & The Illustrious Company

 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Robert Ivy
Deputy Commissioner Suzanne Stephens
New Orleans

 
URUGUAY

Venue Pavilion at Giardini
Commissioner Cristina Bausero
Montevideo capital de urbanismo temático
Eladio Dieste

 
VENEZUELA

Participation to be confirmed

 
ISTITUTO ITALO-LATINO AMERICANO

Venue not defined yet
Commissioner/Curator Irma Arestizábal
Deputy Commissioner Alessandra Bonanni

COLOMBIA

Participation to be confirmed

Projekat „Beograd”


Grad Beograd predstaviće se kao grad u promenama, na X Arhitektonskom bijenalu u Veneciji „Gradovi: Ljudi, društvo, arhitektura”. Arhitektonska smotra predstavlja jednu od najprestižnijih kulturnih manifestacija u svetu, a ove godine održaće se od 10. septembra do 19. novembra, pod nazivom " Meta-cities" i nakon nje će biti objavljen manifest Bijenala o razvojnim područjima za XXI vek. Projekat „Beograd” je dobio mogućnost da potencijale i projekte za razvoj Beograda predstavi na najvišem nivou, jer ova manifestacija okuplja ne samo arhitektonski, kulturni i umetnički vrh Evrope i sveta, već i poslovnu elitu, investitore i javne institucije.

Selektore je privukla činjenica da projekat „Beograd” okuplja preko sto mladih ljudi, od kojih veliki broj njih radi i školuje se u inostranstvu, a da pri tom žele da svoje iskustvo i znanje stečeno u Njujorku, Parizu, Moskvi, Šangaju stave u funkciju razvoja Beograda. Oni ovaj grad predstavljaju kao brend, regionalni centar u sektoru usluga, obrazovanja i novih tehnologija, ali i kao kulturni i centar modernog načina života.

Okosnicu izlaganja činiće projekti vezani za beogradsko priobalje i kompleks Velikog ratnog ostrva, koji se smatraju najvećim neiskorišćenim bogatstvom, te niz rešenja kako bi se život grada spustio na reke. Serijal tribina okupiće brojne goste iz državnog i poslovnog sektora koji će razgovarati o poslovnim i investicionim mogućnostima grada.

Cilj je da se kroz projekat „Beograd” pokaže kako će se ovaj grad najdinamičnije menjati u urbanističkom, ali i socijalnom i ekonomskom pogledu. Te promene zasnivaće se na znanju i kompetencijama mladih i sposobnih Beograđana. Predstavljanje na Venecijanskom bijenalu je prilika da se promišljanja o razvoju i ulozi Beograda uzdignu na najviši stručni nivo i tako predstave svetskoj javnosti, čime će se dodatno podići interes svetske javnosti za prosperitet ovog područja. (www.kontra.org.yu)

... > Richard Rogers Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement...




The Board of La Biennale di Venezia, presided by Davide Croff, has accepted the proposal by Director Richard Burdett to award the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition (10th September – 19th November) to Richard Rogers.

Richard Rogers has a distinguished career as architect and is responsible for some of the most iconic buildings of the last twenty five years including the Centre Pompidou in Paris (with Renzo Piano) and Lloyd's of London. His career has been driven by a passion for cities as an architect, urbanist, adviser and author, promoting the importance of architecture in making cities more sustainable and equitable in the context of a rapidly urbanising world.

Rogers said: “I’m passionate about cities. They are the most complex of artefacts and many are in great need of revitalisation. I am, therefore, extremely delighted to learn that I will be receiving the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award for my work on cities at this year’s Venice Biennale. A lifetime is a long time - but in terms of the work I’d still like to do, I’m already beginning to think it’s not long enough. I would like to thank everyone - from my wonderful colleagues and collaborators to my family - for the fantastic support they have given to me over the years. I have long been fascinated with the concept of sustainable cities and the role of regeneration in improving the quality of urban life. Cities are places for the face-to-face meeting of people, for the exchange of ideas and for trade. Creating more compact cities through better design which responds to social and environmental concerns is the only way we will create a more desirable form of urban living and reverse the drift of people from cities to the countryside. My own approach to design - and that of my architectural practice, RRP - is guided by this idea.”

The Golden Lion was awarded in Venice on Sunday, September 10th, first day of the Exhibition, during a brief ceremony at the Giardini della Biennale which followed the official opening at 10.30 a.m.

All the other prizes of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition - Golden Lion for the best National Participation, Golden Lion for the best City, Golden Lion for the best the Urban Project, Special Award for a School of Architecture, Leoni di Pietra and Premio di Architettura Portus - will be awarded during an official ceremony on November 8th at the Teatro alle Tese, Arsenale.



from  www.labiennale.org

Richard Rogers
The Lord Rogers of Riverside


Richard Rogers was born in Florence, Italy in 1933. He received a diploma in Architecture from the Architectural Association in London, and a Masters from Yale University USA. Best known for his pioneering buildings with Norman Foster, Renzo Piano and since 1978 with his colleagues at the Richard Rogers Partnership, he has maintained a lifelong commitment to the relationship between architecture, the environment, culture and society. In parallel to his prime activity as an architect and urban designer, he has been closely involved with many of the UK's major arts and public organisations. He was Chairman of the Tate Gallery from 1981 to 1989, Deputy Chairman of the Arts Council of England from 1994 to 1997 and Chairman of The Architecture Foundation until June 2001. He is an Honorary Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as well as President of The National Communities Resource Centre.

The first architect to be invited to give the BBC Reith Lectures in 1995, Rogers’ text - 'Cities for a small planet' - argued for a more equitable and sustainable approach to the built environment, placing the design of cities at the heart of the public and political agenda. Richard Rogers is Chairman to the Mayor’s Design for London Group, as well as Adviser to the Mayor of Barcelona on urban strategies.

In 1971, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano were the winners of an international competition for the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, a museum, library and information centre. The building has been visited by over 100 million people since its completion in 1976.  The work of the Richard Rogers Partnership, formed in 1977, is based on the use of appropriate technologies to reduce energy consumption, maximising social potential and responding to changing patterns of use and activity. The practice has designed award-winning public and private buildings in Europe, Asia and the USA, including Lloyd's of London (London, 1986), Channel 4 Headquarters (London, 1994), the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg, 1995), Law Courts in Bordeaux (1998), VR Techno Plaza (Gifu, Japan, 1998), 88 Wood Street (London, 1999), the Millennium Dome (London, 1999) and Lloyd’s Register of Shipping (London, 2000). Recently completed projects include the new National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, Madrid Barajas Airport, Terminal 4 and Law Courts in Antwerp. Current projects include Heathrow Terminal 5, the redevelopment of a bullring in Barcelona and a 48 storey office tower in the City of London.

The commitment to the public realm and sustainable design underpins a series of urban masterplans in cities around the world. These include the masterplan for Pu Dong Financial District in Shanghai, the radical ecological proposals for ParcBIT in Majorca and visionary plans for the centre of London, originally exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1986.  In London, the practice is author of the Greenwich Peninsula masterplan, proposals for the Bankside masterplan adjacent to Tate Modern and Convoys Wharf in Deptford.

Richard Rogers has published and lectured widely. He has received numerous international awards, including the RIBA Royal Gold Medal (1985), the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur (1986), the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal In Architecture (1999) and the Praemium Imperiale in 2000. Two key publications are 'Cities for a small planet' (based on his BBC Reith Lectures) and ‘Cities for a small country’ (with Professor Ann Power). In 1991 he was knighted by H.M. The Queen for his contributions to architecture. He was made a life peer in 1996.

In 1998 Richard Rogers was commissioned by the UK government to chair the Urban Task Force and in June 1999 his team published a report, ‘Towards an Urban Renaissance’, containing wide-ranging proposals for urban regeneration in the UK. Many of these recommendations were incorporated in the Government’s Urban White Paper, announced in November 2000. The Urban Summit, held in London in November 2002, focused on key issues raised in the UTF Report.

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