FAIRS & EVENTS Rough walls – but charming6/14/2016So many unfinished buildings: The Spanish pavilion focuses on unfinished and abandoned structures and thus discovers more than just the legacies of a burst property bubble.
FAIRS & EVENTS Grand Tour of the Country Exhibitions6/14/2016So who has the time to see everything at this Biennale? We’ve chosen a few of the really eye-catching exhibitions for you.
ARCHITECTURE Siza celebrates with everyone6/14/2016Almost 40 years after construction work started, a subsidized public housing project by Álvaro Siza is being continued in Venice. A superb exhibition turns it into the Portuguese country exhibition at this year’s Architecture Biennale – and shows us that sometimes the front runs right past our front foors.
FAIRS & EVENTS Getting Your Fingers Dirty 6/13/2016Aravena’s main exhibition celebrates hand-made architecture, as can be sensed from all the materials and smells. But does that suffice for the major challenges?
FAIRS & EVENTS Achieving the breakthrough6/7/2016How to make Heimat? The German Pavilion opens its walls and the curators put forward hypotheses on what cities should look like where people not only arrive, but want to stay.
FAIRS & EVENTS Architecture – daring to do more6/1/2016In his lively and powerful main exhibition at the Biennale, Alejandro Aravena shows just how much zest architecture can have, and how much power architects can have.
FAIRS & EVENTS Get out those ladders!5/17/2016With Alejandro Aravena at its helm, the 15th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice could be a particularly interesting one – despite his predecessor Rem Koolhaas being a hard act to follow. After all, who could follow in those footsteps?
FAIRS & EVENTS Arrival country. Home country.3/10/2016Cheap apartment buildings, hostels for refugees and spaces for integration – the German Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale is slowly taking shape.