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The inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art in 2019 was the first edition of a two-part biennial that traced interconnected narratives around the city’s ever-changing shoreline. These connections sought to reveal strategies of resistance against industrial-colonial systems, uncover polyphonic histories sedimented around the shoreline, and open up relations between the human and(...)
Water, kinship, belief. Toronto Biennale of Art 2022
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The inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art in 2019 was the first edition of a two-part biennial that traced interconnected narratives around the city’s ever-changing shoreline. These connections sought to reveal strategies of resistance against industrial-colonial systems, uncover polyphonic histories sedimented around the shoreline, and open up relations between the human and more-than-human. To extend this artistic thinking and expand notions of relationality, in 2022, the second edition moves inland to follow tributaries and ravines, both above ground and hidden, that shape this place. In relation to these two Biennial exhibitions, this publication is a “third” site, a place where the continuities, resonances, and dissonances between Biennial editions are extended. Its pages become a means to bring together the artists, artworks, collaborators, and ideas that have together informed the exhibitions, irrespective of chronology, dispensing with categories, and part of a greater whole.
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The 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, titled "The laboratory of the future," is conceived as a kind of workshop at which architects present examples from their practices reflecting on themes of decolonization and decarbonization. The biennale also shines a spotlight on Africa and the African Diaspora, with 89 participants, over half of whom are of African descent. Volume(...)
Biennale Architettura 2023: The laboratory of the future
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The 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, titled "The laboratory of the future," is conceived as a kind of workshop at which architects present examples from their practices reflecting on themes of decolonization and decarbonization. The biennale also shines a spotlight on Africa and the African Diaspora, with 89 participants, over half of whom are of African descent. Volume I of its catalog is dedicated to the International Exhibition, curated by Ghanaian Scottish architect Lesley Lokko. Projects by each participant are accompanied by a critical text and biographical notes and a rich plate section. Volume II presents the National Participations and the Collateral Events, with illustrated texts that delve into the projects presented in the Pavilions and the Collateral Exhibitions on display in the Giardini, the Arsenale and various locations throughout Venice.
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''Cloud-to-ground'' is the scientific term for lightning that strikes directly into the ground. Cloud-to-ground, published in conjunction with the Israeli pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, investigates the shifts in political power structure that result from the wide-spread use of cloud technology: the storage, processing,(...)
Cloud-to-ground.Israel pavillion, Venice Architecture Biennale
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''Cloud-to-ground'' is the scientific term for lightning that strikes directly into the ground. Cloud-to-ground, published in conjunction with the Israeli pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, investigates the shifts in political power structure that result from the wide-spread use of cloud technology: the storage, processing, and analysis of inconceivable amounts of data in computer “clouds.” The focus is on major infrastructure projects currently underway in Israel and the Middle East region. These include Nimbus, a major cloud project pursued by the Israeli government for which Google and Amazon are building new powerful data centers, and the Blue Raman fiber-optic cable across the Negev Desert, also laid by Google, which will bypass Egypt on its way from India to Europe and at the same time revive the ancient trade routes that passed through this country. ''Cloud-to-ground'' also documents the decommissioning and demolition of countless telephone exchanges in Israel’s cities that have become obsolete. It thus brings to attention the physical nature of these largely ignored “black box” structures and connects them to the history of the Middle East and recent developments in global communication technology. Essays by prominent Israeli scholars are complemented by numerous photographs, sketches, and archival documents, as well as a newly compiled index of 140 telephone exchanges in Israel.
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Staging the moon: Resource extraction beyond earth. Luxembourg Pavilion, Biennale Venizia 2023
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"Staging the Moon: Resource extraction beyond Earth" is a publication of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2023. It critically unpacks Luxembourg’s role in space-mining developments from the perspective of resources. Curators Francelle Cane and Marija Mari? transform the pavilion into a "lunar laboratory":(...)
Staging the moon: Resource extraction beyond earth. Luxembourg Pavilion, Biennale Venizia 2023
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"Staging the Moon: Resource extraction beyond Earth" is a publication of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2023. It critically unpacks Luxembourg’s role in space-mining developments from the perspective of resources. Curators Francelle Cane and Marija Mari? transform the pavilion into a "lunar laboratory": a space for testing human technologies on the Moon that also doubles as a media studio "staging" corporate narratives of positive change. From the development of human settlements on the Moon to the mining of asteroids for rare minerals and metals, the wild imaginaries of extraction-driven growth have, quite literally, transcended the boundaries of Earth. This volume collects essays and fragments of research on the shifting of resource exploitation from the exhausted Earth to its celestial hinterland, and begins an urgent debate on the impact this shift will have on our understanding of land, resources and commons.
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Soil lab: A built experiment
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This anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The pages give space to a conversation that stretches far outside both the confines of the Soil Lab’s site in North Lawndale and the short duration(...)
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Soil lab: A built experiment
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This anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The pages give space to a conversation that stretches far outside both the confines of the Soil Lab’s site in North Lawndale and the short duration of the biennial. The book is a meeting place for the voices which contributed to the Soil Lab project, and maps their constellation of disciplines—across architecture, art, anthropology, ecology, craft and community work—and global geographies, including the US, Denmark, Ireland, Puerto Rico and Austria. The story of the project, and the many lives and threads that it brushed up against, is told through histories, criticism, photographic essays, instruction manuals, soil recipes and interviews.
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Cet ouvrage examine en détail l’histoire du pavillon du Canada, construit en 1958 dans les jardins de la Biennale de Venise, les forces en présence lors de la réalisation du bâtiment et son utilisation depuis soixante ans pour la présentation et l’exposition d’artistes et d’architectes canadiens. Il s’agit non seulement de souligner l’importance du pavillon dans le(...)
Le pavillon du Canada à la Biennale de Venise
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Cet ouvrage examine en détail l’histoire du pavillon du Canada, construit en 1958 dans les jardins de la Biennale de Venise, les forces en présence lors de la réalisation du bâtiment et son utilisation depuis soixante ans pour la présentation et l’exposition d’artistes et d’architectes canadiens. Il s’agit non seulement de souligner l’importance du pavillon dans le contexte plus large de l’architecture moderne, mais aussi de mettre en lumière son rôle d’avant-poste de la diplomatie culturelle. L’apparat iconographique du livre est constitué de documents d’archives – photographies, dessins et cartes –, ainsi que d’un portfolio réalisé par des photographes contemporains (Francesco Barasciutti et Andrea Pertoldeo) qui montrent l’état du bâtiment avant, pendant et après les travaux de restauration de 2018. Les différentes contributions apportent un éclairage sur le contexte culturel et politique dans lequel s’est inscrite la commande du pavillon canadien (Cammie McAtee); la conception et la construction de la structure architecturale, ainsi que les relations avec l’architecte Enrico Peressutti et l’agence BBPR (Réjean Legault); la place du pavillon dans le contexte culturel italien de l’après-guerre (Serena Maffioletti); son retentissement, de l’inauguration en 1958 à la restauration de 2018 (Josée Drouin-Brisebois); le projet de restauration (Susanna Caccia Gherardine); et, enfin, le lien entre le pavillon du Canada et les jardins de la Biennale (Franco Panzini).
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"Echoes of a Land" features contributions by 21 participants, architects and designers as a proposal for the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition in 2018. Curated by Mexican architect Gabriela Etchegaray, the pavilion integrates the work of emerging and established Mexican architects.
Echoes of a land. Biennal di Venezia 2018
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"Echoes of a Land" features contributions by 21 participants, architects and designers as a proposal for the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition in 2018. Curated by Mexican architect Gabriela Etchegaray, the pavilion integrates the work of emerging and established Mexican architects.
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The relationship between real and fictional cities is blurry. Ideas which begin as literary speculations can shape the physical world. Both architects and novelists tell stories about place; real and imagined. They are in this sense both urban practitioners, creating neighbourhoods to serve communities and articulating the values of societies through the design of their(...)
Gross ideas: Tales of tomorrow's architecture. Oslo Architecture Triennale
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The relationship between real and fictional cities is blurry. Ideas which begin as literary speculations can shape the physical world. Both architects and novelists tell stories about place; real and imagined. They are in this sense both urban practitioners, creating neighbourhoods to serve communities and articulating the values of societies through the design of their streets.This book of original short stories, written by architects, engineers, and novelists, explores the architecture of the near future glimpsed through the lens of fictional characters, places and buildings. What will the architecture of the future be like? How will cities change with environmental breakdown? How will people travel once cars are ancient history? What will buildings look like when bricks and mortar are no longer instruments of financial accumulation?
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A wooden Japanese house slated for demolition will instead be moved to Venice for exhibition. Yet the house put on display will not appear in its original form. Dismantled for shipping, it will be reassembled on-site in new configurations created by architects and artisans from Japan, who will add new or local materials and other elements in the process. In other words,(...)
Co-Ownership of action : trajectories of elements
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A wooden Japanese house slated for demolition will instead be moved to Venice for exhibition. Yet the house put on display will not appear in its original form. Dismantled for shipping, it will be reassembled on-site in new configurations created by architects and artisans from Japan, who will add new or local materials and other elements in the process. In other words, the exhibition of the house will be a fantastical installation that combines old and new in a composite of creative efforts by multiple designers and craftsmen. This book, edited by architect Kozo Kadowaki, explores the project in detail.
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Globalization, technology and politics have altered the definition and expectations of citizenship and the right to place. "Dimensions of Citizenship" documents contributions from the seven firms selected to represent the United States in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. This volume profiles and illustrates each of the US Pavilion contributions and contextualizes(...)
Dimensions of citizenship: architecture and belonging from the body to the cosmos
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Globalization, technology and politics have altered the definition and expectations of citizenship and the right to place. "Dimensions of Citizenship" documents contributions from the seven firms selected to represent the United States in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. This volume profiles and illustrates each of the US Pavilion contributions and contextualizes them in terms of scale. Drawing inspiration from the Eames' Power of Ten, "Dimensions of Citizenship" provides a view of belonging across seven stages starting with the individual (Citizen), then the collective (Civic, Region, Nation) and expanding to include all phases of contemporary society, real and projected (Globe, Network, Cosmos).
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