Island / Caruso St John and Marcus Taylor.
London : The Store X The Spaces, 2018.
235 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 23 cm + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : all illustrations ; 21 cm)
The biennial commission to curate the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is awarded by the British Council. In 2018, the pavilion was curated by Caruso St John Architects together with the artist Marcus Taylor. The concept of the pavilion was a response to the Biennale curator's theme of "Freespace", and to the important questions and political context of the time. The design involved constructing a builder's scaffold around the pavilion and making a new public space on the roof, accessed by a large external stair and lift. At the roof space, just the tip of the pavilion's roof was visible, suggesting a sunken world beneath. The pavilion itself was completely empty and apparently abandoned. The two spaces, on the roof and in the pavilion, hosted a programme of events including poetry, drama, music, performance, film, and architectural debates. All the other participating countries were invited to hold events at the British Pavilion. The following is an excerpt from the statement written by the curatorial team: "There are many ways to interpret the experience of visiting the 2018 British Pavilion. An island can be a place of both refuge and exile. The state of the building - completely covered with scaffolding to support the new platform above - embraces many themes: climate change, abandonment, colonialism, Brexit, isolation, reconstruction and sanctuary. A simple interpretation would be to see the layout as demarcating an 'above' and a 'below', heaven and hell, the future and past. This was not the intention; at times the situation could be the reverse, with the abandoned pavilion becoming a sanctuary during oppressive heat or a storm. In the empty pavilion, the whole history of the place can be told. The galleries are resonant with the marks, stories and ideas of the exhibitors and audiences who have passed through at previous Biennales. The building itself - opened in 1897 as a tea house within the Giardini and adapted for use as the British Pavilion at the 1909 Biennale - represents a moment in time when the world was divided along colonial lines. It has stood through two world wars, fascism, the formation of the European Community, the fall of communism and, now, major concerns of climate change and the rise of sea levels - with Venice being a city more vulnerable than most. These are challenges for all of us; the way we build, design cities, consume and live our lives."--https://carusostjohn.com/projects/island-venice-architecture-biennale/
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International Architectural Exhibition (16th : 2018 : Venice, Italy)
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Taylor, Marcus, 1964-
Caruso St John, Architects.
International Architectural Exhibition (16th : 2018 : Venice, Italy)
Location: Library main 307153
Call No.: BIB 250538
Notes: booklet
Status: Available
Location: Library main 304822
Call No.: BIB 250538
Status: Available
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