Venice Biennale 2018 Review, Pavilions

Nordic Pavilion Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

Review of 16th International Architecture Exhibition & Venice Design 2018 furniture design exhibition by architect, artist and designer Jassim AlNashmi, author of the ‘Traveling Mihrab’ exhibit representing Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf.

ReCasting by Alison Brooks Architects

Installation by Alison Brooks Architects at 16th International Architecture Exhibition

Photos of large-scale, site specific installation by Alison Brooks Architects that simulates the critical freespaces of their work in housing as 4 inhabitable ‘totems’: Threshold, Inhabited Edge, Passage, and Roofspace, inviting exploration.

Isoropia Installation at Venice Biennale

Isoropia Installation at Venice Biennale 2018

Isoropia, part of Denmark’s submission to La Biennale di Venezia – architecture is reinvented with the application of a 3D-knitted construction of Dyneema (the strongest fiber in the world) and flexible poles, forming an ultralight, ultrastrong construction.

oxymoron installation by Sauerbruch Hutton

oxymoron installation by Sauerbruch Hutton

The installation by Sauerbruch Hutton at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE , curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, is a small space enclosed by a timber framework placed amongst the monumental structure of the Corderie.

Weaving Architecture by Benedetta Tagliabue

Clichy-Montfermeil metro station building interior by EMBT

The poetic structure is composed by various elements intertwined in two levels. The higher level is built with American red oak modules and the lower one with steel modules; both are woven with fibre glass thread of different colours, blurring boundaries.

Venice Biennale Japan Pavilion 2018

Venice Biennale Japan Pavilion 2018 installation

Venice Biennale Japan Pavilion 2018 exhibition at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia curated by a team led by Momoyo Kaijima, with Laurent Stalder and Yu Iseki: showcases over 40 exhibitors ranging from university design studios to architectural offices.

Venice Biennale Turkey Pavilion 2018

Venice Biennale Turkey Pavilion 2018

Curated by Kerem Piker and coordinated by Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the Pavilion of Turkey presents Vardiya at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

Robin Hood Gardens: A Ruin in Reverse

Robin Hood Gardens London housing

In 2017, just before demolition of the estate began, the V&A saved a three-storey section of each façade and the interior fittings of two flats. The fragments take their place in the V&A’s national collection of architecture as an internationally significant example of Brutalism.

Venice Biennale Greek Pavilion 2018

The School of Athens, the National Pavilion of Greece exhibition

The School of Athens at The National Pavilion of Greece explores the importance of the academic commons at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Venice Biennale German Pavilion 2018

Venice Biennale German Pavilion 2018 Unbuilding Walls exhibition

For 28 years, Germany has been united – exactly as long as the Berlin Wall existed (1961–1989). On the occasion of this parallel, GRAFT and Marianne Birthler curate exhibition “Unbuilding Walls” at the German Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice.

Hong Kong Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2018

Hong Kong Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2018

Curators have invited 100 Hong Kong and international architects to design towers in free space, thus provoking intensive reflection and research on this typology. Spanish architect Fernando Menis was asked to design 4 of these 100 towers.

Venice Biennale Singapore Pavilion 2018

No More Free Space Singapore Pavilion Venice Biennale 2018

The Venice Biennale Singapore Pavilion exhibition asks if there is indeed No More Free Space? in the island state, in response to the overarching theme Freespace conceptualised by curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.

Venice Biennale Irish Pavilion 2018

Venice Biennale Irish Pavilion 2018

Irish Pavilion explores the importance of the rural market place at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by six young Irish architects and designers, Free Market aims to reassert the declining rural market square as a public place of social, political and cultural exchange, central to community cohesion.

Venice Biennale Spanish Pavilion 2018

Venice Biennale Spanish Pavilion 2018

The Spanish Pavilion defends learning centres as places for criticism and architectural creation. The curator Atxu Amann and a team of four others have selected, via an open call, 143 proposals that will be shown in the Spanish Pavilion during the Biennale Architettura 2018 in Venice.

Venice Biennale Lithuanian Pavilion 2018

The Swamp School Pavilion of Lithuania at Venice Biennale 2018

Learning from The Swamp: Lithuania Presents Its First Individual Pavilion at International Architecture Exhibition of Biennale Architettura 2018, curated by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, commissioned by Pippo Ciorra and produced by the Architecture Fund.