With Italy’s famed lagoon city of Venice opening its doors for the 17
th Architecture Biennale, New Europe had the pleasure to speak, in an exclusive interview, with H.E. Aziz Abdukhakimov, the Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan and his country’s Minister of Tourism and Sports, about the key concepts that have factored into the Central Asian nation taking part in such an important international cultural event for the first time.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Aziz Abdukhakimov.
Uzbekistan participated in the International Architecture Exhibition, or
La Biennale di Venezia in Italian, with an exhibition titles
Mahalla: Urban Rural Living, which was curated by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, both of whom are professors of architecture and design at ETH Zurich, and the founding partners of Christ & Gantenbein. Their firm has featured works by Spanish filmmaker Carlos Casas, Dutch photographer Bas Princen, and the CCA Lab Tashkent. The exhibition
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