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Venice Biennale Pavilion of Spain 2018
Venice Biennale Spanish Pavilion 2018
Pavilion of Spain at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
26 May – 25 November 2018
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The Spanish Pavilion defends learning centres as places for criticism and architectural creation
• The curator Atxu Amann and a team of four others have selected, via an open call, 143 proposals that will be shown in the Spanish Pavilion during the Biennale Architettura 2018 in Venice.
• For the first time, Spain will present a virtual pavilion with another 293 proposals.
• The exhibition reflects the proposals and research that are being developed in centres of learning along with the new multidisciplinary nature of architects.
• The Spanish Pavilion will open May 25 at 1.30pm
Madrid May 2018. Under the title becoming, the exhibition, which has been curated by the architect Atxu Amann, opens the doors to actions, discourses and productions from architecture students developed between 2012 and 2017.
After winning the Golden Lion award at the previous Biennial for Unfinished – a project by architects Carlos Quintáns and Iñaqui Carnicero that explored the reinvented architecture of the construction crisis – the Spanish Pavilion now addresses the future of architecture from the point of researchers.
becoming looks to the future, and a common ground of training in schools, which extends to other learning spaces and at times creates dialogue with other disciplines.
From a starting point of 55 adjectives that qualify architecture and were presented in the Open Call, becoming provides a space for heterogeneous proposals and reflections on architecture and vindication of learning environments as a space for criticism and architectural creation.
Among the eclectic selection inside the pavilion you will see proposals that critically review the past, others that redefine everyday spaces of the present, and those that imagine a future based on sustainability, well-being and social justice, as well as visions that fuse the real world and the virtual one. For example, it will be the first time that the pavilion shows, doctoral theses on architecture.
becoming has also afforded specific opportunities within the framework of the Biennial. The first of these was to invite student collectives to present a project that transformed the exterior space of the Spanish Pavilion. The winning intervention can be seen during the Biennial, and will remain in the pavilion once it is over.
Within this first specific open call, the proposal of a second group of students to occupy the rear space of the pavilion (traditionally used for storage) was accepted. It will now become the exit of the exhibition. It is a textile installation that reflects the concepts that have inspired the exhibition.
Another open call, Out of the Box Celebration, was made in partnership with the pavilions of Belgium and Holland. They called for proposals for the space between these three pavilions. The winner, selected from more than 100 ideas, is the Europa installation. Submitted by Belgian students, it proposes the eradication of divisions between countries and pavilions.
The open and liberal purpose of the Spanish Pavilion includes a Declaration of Intent the curators have assigned to the Biennale, and the Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara. Under the concept of the Freespace, the curators encourage us to revise ways of thinking and new ways of seeing the world, devising solutions where architecture provides well-being and dignity to all the citizens of our fragile planet.
The exhibition at the Biannale Architettura 2018 in Venice will be open from May 26 to November 25, 2018.
Venice Biennale Spanish Pavilion 2018 Curators
Venice Biennale Spanish Pavilion 2018 Curators and co-curators
Atxu Amann Alcocer
Estudio Amann – Canovas – Maruri
Madrid 1961
Architect for E.T.S.A. de Madrid. Doctorate Cum Laude, ETSAM, 2006. Technical Urbanism at the Centro de Estudios Urbanos del I.E.A.L. (M.A.P.)
Scholar of the Technische Hoschule of Darmstadt (Germany) in CAAD.Atxu Amann Alcocer has been director of the magazine Architects, director of the postgraduate courses of Editorial Design for the European Social Fund. She currently combines research, at the Hypermedia group, which she directs, with teaching as coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Architectural Communication with architectural production as a member of the Temperaturas Extremas studio
Co-curators:
María Mallo
Gonzalo Pardo
Andrés Cánovas
Nicolás Maruri
La Biennale di Venezia 2018
Open to the public from May 26 to November 25, 2018,
The 16th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura della Biennale di Venezia, entitled FREESPACE, is curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara and organized by La Biennale di Venezia, directed by Paolo Baratta.
“Freespace refers to generosity, focusing on the quality of space itself; to the contribution or gift of an additional free space to inhabitants; to the unexpected in each project independent of its diverse restrictions. To the use of the virtues of nature, the generation with a new way of thinking, where architecture provides well-being and dignity. To the possibility of imagining free space of memory and time, uniting past, present and future. ”
La Biennale Architettura 2018 will present 100 participants, 65 international collaborations, 17 collateral events and one special project.
Spanish Pavilion Agenda
Guided Tour for the Press
Date: 24th May at 4pm. | Place: Giardini, Sestiere Castello, 30122 Venice
Opening
Date: 25th May at 1.30pm. | Place: Giardini, Sestiere Castello, 30122 Venice
Open to the Public
Date: 26th May at 10am. | Date: Giardini, Sestiere Castello, 30122 Venice
Opening of EUROPA Installation
Date: 26th May at 12pm. | Place: Giardini, Sestiere Castello, 30122 Venice. Spanish, Belgium and Dutch Pavilions
Collaborators
The Spanish Pavilion is promoted by the Government of Spain through the Dirección General de Arquitectura, Vivienda y suelo del Ministerio de Fomento, in collaboration with Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) together with the support of the Arquia Foundation.
Location: Giardini della Biennale, Castello 1260, 30122 Venezi, Italia
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