Aric Chen digs through the multiple layers of David Chipperfield's Common Ground exhibition in our first post from Venice Anupama Kundoo's Feel the Ground. Wall House: One to One at the Arsenale Despite beginning and ending with gusts of rain, yesterday’s first day of previews at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale mostly cast a sweltering sun over Common Ground, the main exhibition at the Arsenale. At first reckoning, the theme, chosen by exhibition director and UK architect David Chipperfield, doesn’t sound all that different from Kazuyo Seijima’s intriguingly prosaic People Meet in Architecture from 2010. But while Seijima’s Biennale will
The international architecture exhibition produced every two years in Venice is a sprawling, humid, one-stop shopping experience. When done right, it’s also exhilarating. Though the strategy of showcasing architecture’s freshest ideas through national pavilions and exhibition galleries has had its drawbacks in the Architecture Biennale’s 30-year history, high-quality submissions help make this year’s show feel curated. The recurring threads of sustainability, adaptive reuse, and traditional building methods — while planning for an uncertain future — give the show an underlying coherence. This year’s director, Kazuyo Sejima of the Japanese firm SANAA, chose a remarkably enigmatic theme for the Biennale —
Established in Santa Monica, California, in 2000 by John Frane and Hadrian Predock, Predock_Frane was featured in Architectural Recrd' s Design Vanguard 2002.
Founded by Jeanne Gang, Studio/ Gang/Architects recently completed the Starlight Theatre in Rockford, Illinois, and a “stone curtain” for the Masonry Variations exhibit at the National Building Museum.
Working together as Studio Kolatan/ MacDonald since 1988, the New York-based Sulan Kolatan and William MacDonald share an interest in the technological and economic phenomena that affect cultural trans- formations.