Venice Biennale of Architecture

Mostra di Architettura di Venezia, the Architecture section of the Venice Biennale, was established in 1980, although architecture had been a part of the art biennale since 1968.

As well as addressing the academic side of architecture, the Biennale is an occasion where big-name architects and designers can showcase new projects, arranged in different pavilions, each with different themes. The Biennale is currently held in the Biennale Gardens.

Past exhibitions

2010

The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, titled People meet in architecture'. August 29 to November 21, 2010. At the Arsenale and Giardini exhibition venues. Directed by Kazuyo Sejima.

Lion Awards:^[1]

• Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Kingdom of Bahrain (Bahrain Urban Research Team, Camille Zakharia and Mohammed Bu Ali)
• Golden Lion for Best Project: Jun'ya Ishigami and Associates, Japan
• Silver Lion for Promising Young Participant: Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen + Bas Princen
• Golden Lion for lifetime achievement: Rem Koolhaas
• Golden Lion in memoriam: Kazuo Shinohara

2008

The 11th International Architecture Exhibition, titled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building. September 14 to Sunday, November 23, 2008. At the Arsenale and Giardini exhibition venues. Directed by Aaron Betsky.

Lion Awards:^[2]

• Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Nicolas Grospierre and Kobas Laksa of the Polish pavilion with Hotel Polonia—The afterlife of buildings
• Golden Lion for Best Installation Project: Greg Lynn
• Silver Lion for a Promising Young Architect: Elemental of Chile
• Special Golden Lion for lifetime achievement: James S. Ackerman

National Pavilions:

• United States Pavilion^[3]: Into the Open: Positioning Practice. Curated by William Menking, Aaron Levy, and Andrew Sturm.

2006

The 10th International Architecture Exhibition, directed by Richard Burdett. The exhibition was titled Cities, architecture and society. (September 10 to November 19). The collateral section City-Port was held in Palermo until January 14, 2007. The exhibition attracted over 130,000 visitors.

Lion Awards:^[4]:

• Golden Lion—Best National Pavilions: Denmark for CO-EVOLUTION, Danish/Chinese collaboration on sustainable urban development in China, by young Danish architectural practices COBE, CEBRA, Transform and Effekt.
• Golden Lion—Cities: Bogotá, Colombia.
• Golden Lion—Urban Projects: Javier Sanchez/ Higuera + Sanchez for the housing project "Brazil 44" in Mexico City.
• Special Award—Schools of Architecture: I Facoltà di Architettura Politecnico di Torino, for a project on Bombay.
• Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Richard Rogers

National Pavilions:

• United States Pavilion^[3]: After the Flood: Building on Higher Ground. Curated by Christian Ditlev Bruun.

2004

The 9th International Architecture Exhibition, directed by Kurt W. Forster and titled METAMORPH (September 12–November 7). The exhibition attracted over 115,000 visitors.

National Pavilions:

• United States Pavilion^[3]: Transcending Type. Curated by Christian Ditlev Bruun.

2002

The 8th International Architecture Exhibition, directed by Deyan Sudjic and titled Next (Castello Gardens and Arsenale—September 8 to November 3) and attracted over 100,000 visitors.

National Pavilions:

United States Pavilion^[3]: World Trade Center.

2000

The 7th International Architecture Exhibition, directed by Massimiliano Fuksas and titled Less Aesthetics, More Ethics (Castello Gardens and Arsenale—from June 18 to October 29).

National Pavilions and Curators:

United States Pavilion^[3]: ARCHitecture LABoratories with Columbia University and UCLA.

Greg Lynn and Hani Rashid, respectively, transformed the U.S. Pavilion into a research laboratory designed to investigate, produce, and present a broad scope of new architectural schemes. A central theme of the studio program was new technology and its application to contemporary housing and other building archetypes. Organized by: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Commissioner: Max Hollein

1996

The 6th International Architecture Exhibition. Castello Gardens. Directed by Hans Hollein. The main exhibition was titled Sensing the Future—The Architect as Seismograph and covered some thirty contemporary masters of architecture.

United States Pavilion^[3]: Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture.

The Walt Disney Company has inspired and commissioned the work of many of the leading architects of our day for its hotels, productions, facilities, office buildings, sports facilities and housing developments. Organized by: Disney Imagineering, and The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Commissioner: Thomas Krens

1992

Architecture: Modernity and the sacred space. Old Granaries on the Giudecca. Curator: Paolo Portoghesi.

1991

The 5th International Architecture Exhibition. Castello Gardens. National pavilions: Forty Architects for the 90s; exhibition of project designs for A Gateway to Venice; exhibition of project designs for the Italian Pavilion; new Bookshop Pavilion designed by James Stirling. Corderie dell'Arsenale: The Venice Prize, an encounter of 43 schools of architecture; exhibition of projects for the new Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido (director: Francesco Dal Co).

United States Pavilion^[3]: Peter Eisenman and Frank Gehry.

The similarities and differences between the work of architects Peter Eisenman and Frank Gehry. Organized by: The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, New York

• Commissioner: Philip Johnson

1988

Italian Pavilion. 12 project designs for the Venice Biennale. National competition, Doge's Palace. Director: Francesco Dal Co.

1986

The 4th International Architecture Exhibition: Hendrik Petrus Berlage—Drawings. Villa Farsetti, Santa Maria di Sala. Director: Aldo Rossi.

1985

The 3rd International Architecture Exhibition: Venice Project, international competition, Castello Gardens. Director: Aldo Rossi.

1982

The 2nd International Architecture Exhibition: Architecture in Islamic Countries. Italian Pavilion at the Castello Gardens (director: Paolo Portoghesi).

1980

The 1st International Architecture Exhibition: The presence of the Past. Included the Strada Novissima exhibition at the Corderie dell'Arsenale, and exhibitions on Antonio Basile, the architect; The Banal Object. An Exhibition of Critics. An Exhibition of Young Architects. Homage to Gardella, Ridolfi and Johnson. Director of the Architecture Section: Paolo Portoghesi.

1979

Theatre of the World. The Dogana at the end of the Zattere, created by Aldo Rossi for the Architecture and Theatre Sections of the Biennale in occasion of the exhibition Venice and the Stage (winter 1979–80).

1978

Utopia and the Crisis of Anti-Nature. Architectural Intentions in Italy. Magazzini del Sale, Zattere. Director: Vittorio Gregotti.

1976

Werkbund 1907. The Origins of Design; Rationalism and Architecture in Italy during the fascist period; Europe-America, old city centre, suburbia; Ettore Sottsass, an Italian designer. Ca' Pesaro, San Lorenzo, Magazzini del Sale, Cini Foundation. Director. Vittorio Gregotti.

1975

On the subject of the Stucky Mill. Magazzini del Sale at the Zattere. Curated by the Visual Arts and Architecture Section of the Biennale, directed by Vittorio Gregotti.

See also

• List of architecture prizes

References

1. ^ "Official Awards of the 12th Intl. Architecture Exhibitions". Venice Biennale of Architecture. http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/news/arch-awards.html. Retrieved 2010-08-30. 
2. ^ "The kingdom of architectural visions closes its doors". World Architecture News. http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10713. Retrieved 2009-10-30. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
4. ^ "10th International Architecture Exhibition: Official Awards". Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia. http://www.gat.st/pages/de/nachrichten/2356.html. Retrieved 2009-10-30. 

External links

• Venice Biennale website
• Satellite map of national pavilions