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next LA BiennALe Di VeneziA

8. inTeRnATiOnAL ARchiTecTuRe exhiBiTiOn

Architects have been invited to submit large scale models,
la biennale di venezia and where appropriate full size material prototypes. Toyo
ito’s work with aluminum and with glass reinforced cement
8th international for example will be represented not only by drawings, but
architecture exhibition by actual materials. Future systems’s innovative department
store for selfridges in Birmingham will be shown in model
form, but also feature a full size representation of its strikingly
next inventive cladding.
And in another departure, the biennale has selected individual
Venice projects. Rather than inviting architects to make their own
Giardini di castello installations, the biennale has commissioned john pawson
Arsenale to design the architecture of the exhibition as a whole. in

this way the Biennale hopes to achieve a greater sense of
coherence for the exhibition.
This year, the Biennale di Venezia, long established projects will be grouped according to types.
as the world’s most significant venue for debate The exhibition, which forms, one half of the Biennale - with
on contemporary architecture, is signaling a new the national pavilions in the Giardini representing the other
direction for design, a move away from the virtual - will be staged in the magnificent buildings of the Arsenale,
and toward the material. Venice’s sublime complex of naval architecture built over
the centuries.
From september 8 to november 3 the Biennale
di Venezia will host nexT, an exploration of
the imminent future of architecture. under the
directorship of Deyan sudjic, the London based
critic and curator, the exhibition brings together
more than 100 projects currently being built that
each in their own way will serve to define the
nature of architecture in the years to come.

The architecture biennale aims to reach as wide
an audience as possible. next offers a unique
opportunity to find in one place a range of the Adjaye /Associates
most significant new work that will be realized david adjaye
over the years to come. idea store - Whitechapel rd, London, 2003
Architecture recently has often been presented as photo 1: external
photo 2: Atrium external
if it were a form of installation art, or dominated by photo 3: night
cyber space or video. This biennale will concentrate client: London borough of Tower hamlet
instead on the physical, the material and the tactile.

8. international Architecture exhibition 8. international Architecture exhibition embT Arquitectes Associats
photo: arsenale photo: corderie enric miralles
benedetta Tagliabue
photo: istituto universitario di Architettura, venezia

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