Venice Biennale
Arsenale preview
Venice preview: Haworth Tompkins, Lynch Architects and Eric Parry Architects
Working within the peculiarity of London
Irish Pavilion
Shifting Ground (Beyond National Architecture)
[The Irish Pavilion: Heneghan Peng Architects] This year’s exhibit looks at architecture’s relation to networks of products, data, and knowledge. It asks how a global architecture could be grounded culturally, philosophically and spatially
Introduction
Venice preview: Introduction
Emily Booth previews Common Ground, the 13th International Architecture Exhibition
British Pavilion
Venice preview: British pavilion
The British Council’s Venice Takeaway asked architects to undertake study trips and bring back new models for British architectural practice. This is what they found. Text by British Pavilion curators Vicky Richardson and Vanessa Norwood
Animating education: Learning from Rio de Janeiro
[Aberrant Architecture] ‘Aberrant proposes that standardising school design will reduce costs and ensure accessibility to all students’
Paper Architecture
[Ross Anderson and Anna Gibb] ‘In the ’80s, a Russian group sought to escape restrictions of the regime by entering forbidden competitions’
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New [Socialist] Village
[Darryl Chen] ‘Caochangdi has a thriving mixed-income community making it an anomaly among the city’s mega-developments’
Internationale Bauausstellung Belfast
[Forum for Alternative Belfast] ‘Does Belfast need a far-sighted urban renewal project like West Berlin’s Internationale Bauausstellung?’
The Dutch Way
[dRMM]’ IJburg, a small prototype floating community, is thriving under an advanced culture of planning and design’
The image of the architect: an Open Charter
[Public Works, Urban Projects Bureau, Owen Pritchard] ‘The image of the architect and the profession’s role varies around the world, from Bangkok to Ebbw Vale’
Fideicomiso!
[Elias Redstone] ‘Redstone flew to Argentina to investigate how architects were developing projects following an economic crisis’
British Standard, Lagos Exception
[Liam Ross and Tolulope Onabolu] As UK architects complain of over-regulation, this study looks at how Lagos distributes risk and responsibility
British Exploratory Land Archive
[Smout Allen & BLDGBLOG] ‘The Centre for Land Use Interpretation aims to record human interaction with the earth’s surface’
People, nature & place
[Takero Shimazaki/Toh Shimazaki Architecture] ‘Shimazaki examined the idea that negotiations with the client may lead to architecture that is compromised’
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