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8. 9.2002 LA BiennALe Di VeneziA
3.11.2002 next 8. inTeRnATiOnAL ARchiTecTuRe exhiBiTiOn

Within the corderie and Artiglierie sections of the Arsenale, exhibits will be The national pavilions in the Giardini di castello form the second of the
grouped in ten sections, each dealing with a particular theme: housing, two main sites on which the Biennale operates. next here is interpreted by
museums, toWers, Work, communication, perFormance, shopping, national commissioners in their own way.
education, church and state, and master plans. Architects The usA will feature the World Trade center site; Russia will show eric Owen
represented here range from emerging voices, to the well established. in moss’s new Opera house for st petersburg. Brazil will look at the future of
each case, the choice has been based on the relevance of the project. its cities. in the italian pavilion, The next italy section will look at major new
The housing section will feature a large scale model of the Great Wall projects of all types planned for italy, designed by architects from both italy
commune, an intriguing complex designed by 10 architects from mainland and elsewhere. These will include Odile Decq, Bolles and Wilson, Grafton
china, with contributions from shigeru Ban from japan and Gary chang Architects, enric miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue. To unify the two sites,
from hong kong. Also included in this section is a palatial villa designed by the themes on show at the Arsenale will be covered in a display within the
Arata isozaki for Quatar, with interiors by sottsass, castiglioni Ron Arad, italian pavilion.
and art by Richard serra and David hockney, but it will also deals with social One special feature of the exhibition in the Arsenale is the city of Towers
housing, high tech energy saving systems, and new materials. project, being realized with the help and support of Alessi. A group of ten
in the towers section, Renzo piano’s project for the new york Times will architects have been commissioned to design high rise skyscrapers, in the
be featured alongside norman Foster’s swiss Re in London, jean nouvel’s region of 100 stores. These will be realized as very large models, at the
Agbar Tower in Barcelona, and meccanoo’s montevideo Tower in Rotterdam. scale of 1:100, they will be more than 4 meters, tall and displayed inside the
in the education section there are projects for new libraries in china, the corderie. The architects involved include zaha hadid, Future systems, Toyo
usA hollad, as well as stephen holl’s residences for miT, and Dixon jones ito, and David chipperfield.
university buildings in Belfast.

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8. international Architecture diener & diener Architekten eisenman Architects
exhibition diener peter eisenman
deyan sudjic museum rosengart in Luzern photo 1: computer rendering of multi-tiered lobby in the music Theater, city of culture of galicia,
director photo credit: christian vogt santiago de compostela, spain.
photo 2: computer rendering of the city of culture of galicia, santiago de compostela, spain, showing
the relationship of the buildings, their roofs, and their volumes.

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steven holl Architects foster & partners 8. international
steven holl norman Foster Architecture exhibition
all photos: undergraduate residence, simmons hall, mit-massachusset, usA photo 1: photomontage view of the proposed building from st helen’s churchyard Franco bernabé
photo 2: photomontage view of the proposed building on the London skyline president
photo credit: richard davies

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