The Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art offers little respite from the bleakness of its latest exhibition. Here, trees and flowers are.
Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground brings together artworks from Carnegie Museum of Art’s collection alongside contemporary projects and new commissions to narrate the complex stories of how fossil fuel economies have been produced and upheld; whom they have excluded and left vulnerable; and how they have shaped and disrupted cities, communities, and ecologies.
Caption: The 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2021, curated by Hashim Sarkis, pictured, dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, displays a broad range of ideas addressing its thematic question: How will we live together? Credits: Credit: Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia Caption: Hashim Sarkis, right, with Roberto Cicutto. Roberto Cicutto is President of La Biennale di Venezia. Credits: Credit: Jacopo Salvi, Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia
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By many lights, these are challenging times: The worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, rampant political polarization, and the social and economic effects of globalization have all contributed to a sense of unease or outright turmoil around the globe.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
By many lights, these are challenging times: The worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, rampant political polarization, and the social and economic effects of globalization have all contributed to a sense of unease or outright turmoil around the globe.
This summer, the Venice Biennale’s 17th International Architecture Exhibition, the world’s premier event of its kind, is directly tackling those types of issues, led by the exhibition’s curator, Hashim Sarkis, dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning.
As curator, Sarkis chose the exhibition’s organizing question: “How will we live together?” It is a searching approach, asking architects and designers to envision new solutions to our pressing social concerns.