Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
15th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. 28 May - 27 November 2016. Title: Reporting from the Front. Artistic director: Alejandro Aravena.
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(…) While working in one of the poorest countries in the world, achieving a "correct" architecture might already be considered a huge triumph. But Chowdhury goes beyond this in a very smart way. The intensity does not take place in the mass but in the voids: the open and intermediate spaces carry a dignity, a hierarchy, even a poetry that not only introduce a certain nobility to the space but also establish a very rich relationship with the landscape. The architecture of the voids not only responds efficiently to the environmental conditions but somehow uses nature (the rains, the sun, the sky) as a precious material. (From the Curator's Rationale)
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15th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. 28 May - 27 November 2016. Title: Reporting from the Front. Artistic director: Alejandro Aravena.