Kenyan caves and ancient Mesopotamian boats: Venice Architecture Biennale proposes solutions to impending global housing crisis

Lebanese architect Hashim Sarkis has curated the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale
“If politics can’t help us live together, try architecture” Hashim Sarkis, curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale, believes this polymathic discipline can help heal with today’s most urgent problems
Environmental sustainability, social housing, a virtuous relationship with the surrounding territory, and the defence of the rights of the marginalised: these are the themes that emerge from
How will we live together?, the Venice Architecture Biennale, now open, albeit a year late due to the pandemic.
But the plague year has not in vain, because has it focused and made even more urgent the issues that its curator, Hashim Sarkis, an architect and university teacher of Lebanese origin, had singled out. "If politics can't answer this question, try architecture," he said about why he chose this title. And there are some convincing answers in his biennial. The form chosen to exhibit them is not the traditional one of models and architectural drawings, but the more spectacular and disruptive one of installations, making his architecture biennale closer to that of the visual arts. In fact, Sarkis does not believe in the segregation of the arts. "I chose installation as the expressive form of this exhibition”, he said at the opening, “because I want to bring the public closer to the materiality of architecture, in a spectacular way, if necessary".

Related Keywords

United States , United Kingdom , Argentina , Uzbekistan , Lebanon , Vietnam , Republic Of , South Africa , Jalasiri , Nigeria General , Nigeria , Kenya , Iraq , Italy , Chile , Cape Verde , Spain , France , Nigerian , Italian , British , Lebanese , Argentine , Chilean , Kenyan , Alejandro Aravena , Francesco Bandarin , Peju Alatise , Patti Anahory , Arcangelo Sassolino , Cesar Schofield Cardoso , Padiglione Centrale , Rashad Salim , Kabage Karanja , Niccolo Casa , Hashim Sarkis , Olafur Eliasson , Arsenale Corderie , Stella Mugeti , Carlo Barbante , Giandomenico Tiepolo Mondo Nuovo , Giulia Foscari , Bureau For The Venice Architecture Biennale , Venice Architecture Biennale , Art Nouveau , Central Pavilion , Antarctic Resolution , Areocene Backpack , Future Assembly , Studio Ossidiana , Coming Together , Giandomenico Tiepolo , Mondo Nuovo , Hieronymus Bosch , Earthly Delights , Marsh Arabs , Park Reimagined , ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில் , ஒன்றுபட்டது கிஂக்டம் , அர்ஜெண்டினா , உஸ்பெகிஸ்தான் , லெபனான் , வியட்நாம் , குடியரசு ஆஃப் , நைஜீரியா ஜநரல் , நைஜீரியா , கேந்ய , இராக் , இத்தாலி , சிலி , கேப் வர்டீ , ஸ்பெயின் , பிரான்ஸ் , நைஜீரியன் , இத்தாலிய , பிரிட்டிஷ் , ஆர்கெண்டைன் , சிலியன் , கெந்யந் , ரஷாத் சலீம் , ஹாஷிம் சர்க்கிச் , வெனிஸ் கட்டிடக்கலை பின்னலே , கலை ந்யூவோ , மைய பெவிலியன் , எதிர்கால சட்டசபை , வருகிறது ஒன்றாக , மாஂடொ நோவோ , பூமிக்குரிய மகிழ்ச்சி , சதுப்பு நிலம் அரேபியர்கள் , பேழை மறுபரிசீலனை செய்யப்பட்டது ,