2016 Venice Architecture Biennale
2016 Venice Architecture Biennale: Reporting from the Front
28 May-27 November 2016
The 15th International Architecture Exhibition is currently taking place across the historic city of Venice. This year’s exhibition is curated by Alejandro Aravena and aims to present architecture in action. The various displays and exhibits in the Giardini (gardens) and Arsenale (former shipyards and armeries) acknowledges that the countless battles there are to be fought in the built environment and aims to share with a broader audience the work of those working in the architecture and construction industries.
It highlights practitioners, organisations, groups and projects that are ‘scrutinizing the horizon, looking for new fields of action, facing issues like segregation, inequalities, peripheries, access to sanitation, natural disasters, housing shortage, migration, informality, crime, traffic, waste, pollution and the participation of communities’. In light of the many complexities that contemporary society is experiencing, the exhibition provokes thought about solutions or ways of working, where architecture and the built environment sector can make a difference.
The British Pavilion exhibition presents Home Economics which proposes five architectural typologies in response to changes that have come about in contemporary life in Britain. More information can be found at this link: http://design.britishcouncil.org/venice-biennale/VeniceBiennale2016/