There Architecture Biennale 2016 will open its doors on May 28, 2016 until November 27, 2016 ai Gardens and atArsenal from Venice. This edition of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition is headed by Alejandro Aravena and organized by Venice Biennale chaired by Paolo Baratta. The title is “Report from the Front”And the symbol photo is a shot of Bruce Chatwin to the archaeologist Maria Reiche, in the desert of South America. Here then the latest news on the subject on show in Venice.
The symbolic photo of the exhibition is an emblematic image of our times and of the difficult relationship between architecture and civil society, in a world in dizzying change. It almost seems that all the certainties of the past have been razed to the ground, what horizon is there today for the urban landscape marred by its own builder? New responses are urgently needed, not only style exercises by architects considered exclusively artists, but a profound rethinking of this type of profession, which will have to take into account in the future human and landscape needs on a wider scale.
These are the words that Alejandro Aravena hopes for about the 2016 Architecture Biennale: “Faced with the complexity and variety of challenges to which architecture must respond, Reporting From the Front intends to listen to those who have been able to a perspective and who are therefore able to share knowledge and experiences with us standing on the ground “.
There Show Reporting from the Front it will start from the central Pavilion, where the Giardini are located, towards the Arsenale, including 88 participants from 37 countries. Of these, 50 present themselves for the first time while 38 are architects under 40.
They are part of the Architecture Biennale 2016 three Special projects. The first is called Reporting from Marghera and Other Waterfronts and makes us reflect on the difficult balance between port areas and the properly urban context of cities on the water. These contexts have been severely degraded along our coasts, marred by industrial poles such as Marghera, which have had a devastating impact on the ecosystem and its inhabitants.
The second project is addressed by the Venice Biennale and the Victoria and Albert Museum on the preservation of cultural artefacts.
Last but not least, the project Report from Cities: Conflicts of an Urban Age. In this exhibition we will focus on the transformations that have taken place in cities in two spans of time, one spanning the 1990s to the present and the other covering the last 100 years. This choice was made to show the visitor the exponential growth of contemporary urbanization over the last 25 years and to plan the project of well-distributed and balanced cities, for a better lifestyle. The new eco-sustainable skyscrapers of Bosco Verticale Milano and the Torre dei Cedri in Lausanne are a perfect example of this, which pay particular attention to issues concerning nature.
