Premios - 15ª Bienal de Arquitectura

El Jurado Internacional de la 15ª Bienal de Arquitectura - La Biennale di Venezia compuesto por Hashim Sarkis (Presidente del Jurado, Líbano, EEUU), Pippo Ciorra (Italia), Sergio Fajardo (Colombia), Marisa Moreira Salles (Brasil), y Karen Stein (EEUU) decidió otorgar las distinciones a saber:

León de Oro al Mejor Envío Nacional:

España
Unfinished

Comisariado: Iñaqui Carnicero + Carlos Quintans
Curador: Carnicero + Quintans
Expositores: Contemporary Spanish Architecture
Sede: Giardini

Justificación: "… for a concisely curated selection of emerging architects whose work shows how creativity and commitment can transcend material constraints."

Dos Menciones Especiales - Participaciones Nacionales:

Japón
en : art of nexus

Comisariado: The Japan Foundation.
Curador: Yoshiyuki Yamana.
Expositores: Seiichi Hishikawa, mnm (Mio Tsuneyama), Osamu Nishida+Erika Nakagawa(Osamu Nishida, Erika Nakagawa, Naruse Inokuma Architects (Jun Inokuma, Yuri Naruse), Naka Architects’ Studio (Toshiharu Naka, Yuri Uno), Nousaku Architects (Fuminori Nousaku, Junpei Nousaku), miCo. (Mizuki Imamura, Isao Shinohara), Levi Architecture (Jun Nakagawa), Shingo Masuda+Katsuhisa Otsubo Architects (Shingo Masuda, Katsuhisa Otsubo), Koji Aoki Architects (Koji Aoki), 403architecture [dajiba] (Takuma Tsuji, Takeshi Hashimoto, Toru Yada), BUS (Satoru Ito, Kosuke Bando, Issei Suma), dot architects (Toshikatsu Ienari, Takeshi Shakushiro, Wataru Doi).
Sede: Giardini

Justificación: "… for bringing the poetry of compactness to alternative forms of collective living in a dense urban setting."

Perú
Our Amazon Frontline

Comisariado: José Orrego.
Curadores: Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse.
Expositores: Elizabeth Añaños; Sebastián Cillóniz; Claudia Flores; Jose Luis Villanueva; Militza Carrillo, Gino Fernández; Miguel Chávez, Alvaro Echevarría, Alfonso Orbegoso; Karel van Oordt, Daizuke Izumi, Alejandro Torero; Carlos Tamayo; Luis Miguel Hadzich.
Sede: Arsenale, Sale d’Armi

Justificación: "… for bringing architecture to a remote corner of the world, making it both a venue for learning as well as a means for preserving the culture of the Amazon."

León de Oro al Mejor Participante
de la Exposición Internacional Reporting from the Front:

Gabinete de Arquitectura
(Solano Benítez, Gloria Cabral, Solanito Benítez - Paraguay)
Sede: Pabellón Central - Giardini

Justificación: "… for harnessing simple materials, structural ingenuity and unskilled labour to bring architecture to underserved communities."

León de Plata para un Joven Participante
de la Exposición Internacional Reporting from the Front:

NLÉ
(Kunlé Adeyemi - Países Bajos)
Sede: Gaggiandre - Arsenale

Justificación: "… for a powerful demonstration, be it in Lagos or in Venice, that architecture, at once iconic and pragmatic, can amplify the importance of education."

Mención Especial
a la participante de la Exposición Internacional Reporting from the Front:

Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo
Sede: Pabellón Central - Giardini

Justificación: "… for her perseverance in using the rigours of her discipline to elevate the everyday into timeless works of architecture."

León de Oro a la Trayectoria Profesional

Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Brasil)

Amongst other points, the motivations note that "the most striking attribute of his architecture is its Timelessness. Many decades after being built, each of his projects have resisted the test of time, both stylistically and physically. This astonishing consistency may be the consequence of his ideological integrity and his structural genius. He is a nonconformist challenger and simultaneously a passionate realist. His fields of interest are beyond architecture, in political, social, geographical, historical and technical realms. The role model he played for many generations of architects in Brazil, Latin America and everywhere is that of a person able to join shared and collective efforts as well as someone able to attract others to the cause of a better built environment."

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