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22 May - 21 November 2021
Curator: Hashim Sarkis
Title: How will we live together?
List of Participants
17th International Architecture Exhibition
The International Exhibition How will we live together? includes 112 participants in competition from 46 countries, with a growing delegation from Africa, Latin America and Asia and with comparable representation of men and women. 63 National Participations will bring to life the historic Pavilions in the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic city centre. A total of 17 Collateral Events by national and international non-profit entities and institutions will take place in various venues in the city. The programme is complemented by the Meetings on Architecture as well as by a large Educational Program.
Extracts from Hashim Sarkis' statement:
We need a new spatial contract. In the context of widening political divides and growing economic inequalities, we call on architects to imagine spaces in which we can generously live together:
- together as human beings who, despite our increasing individuality, yearn to connect with one another and with other species across digital and real space;
- together as new households looking for more diverse and dignified spaces for inhabitation;
- together as emerging communities that demand equity, inclusion, and spatial identity;
- together across political borders to imagine new geographies of association;
- together as a planet facing crises that require global action for all of us to continue living at all.
The participants in the 17th International Architecture Exhibition are collaborating with other professions and constituencies - artists, builders, engineers, and craftspeople, but also politicians, journalists, social scientists, and everyday citizens. In effect, the Biennale Architettura 2021 asserts the vital role of the architect as both cordial convener and custodian of the spatial contract.
In parallel, this Exhibition also maintains that it is in its material, spatial, and cultural specificity that architecture inspires the ways we live together. In that respect, we ask the participants to highlight those aspects of the main theme that are uniquely architectural.
The digital project offers videos, podcasts, images, and contributions to “peek” behind the scenes leading up to the 17th International Architecture Exhibition.
From press information
© Portrait photo: Bryce Vickmark, Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia
Cover photo: Achim Menges, Jan Knippers: Material Culture: Rethinking the Physical Substrate for Living Together, 2021, Arsenale. © Photo: Marco Zorzanello. Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia
Golden Lion for the best National Participation:
United Arab Emirates
Two Special Mentions for National Participations:
Russia
Philippines
Golden Lion for best participant in the International Exhibition How will we live together?
raumlaborberlin
(Berlin, Germany)
Silver Lion for a promising young participant in the International Exhibition How will we live together?
Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST)
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands; New York, USA)
Special mention:
Cave_bureau
(Nairobi, Kenya)
Lina Bo Bardi (1914 - 1992), the Italian architect, designer, scenographer, artist and critic naturalized as a Brazilian citizen, is the recipient of the Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in memoriam of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
The Spanish architect, educator, critic and theoretician Rafael Moneo (* 1937 Tudela, Spain) is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
Giardini and Arsenale, opening times:
22 May - 21 November 2021
Tue - Sun 10 am - 6 pm
Last admission: 5:45 pm
Closed on Mondays
More information, tickets, education, guided tours, access, contacts, etc.:
Website La Biennale di Venezia
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La Biennale di Venezia
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30124 Venezia, Italy
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