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With this encounter we had two aspirations: Firstly, to meet the city in a confrontation with reality that refuses the purely aesthetic (the former often being stronger than the latter) and removes the idea of the city. Secondly, we wanted to confront the specter of the past and present being positioned as dual paradigms. How, then, do we meet and situate ourselves in the city as a site; how do we see it and render it not as a subject or scene, but as real conditions in time?
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