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Biennale Breakdown 1: The Boys are Back in Town
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English - May 29, 2023 20:51 - 47 minutes - 65 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDesign Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The 18th
Venice Architecture Biennale was one with “no architecture,” some critics have alleged, but there was no shortage of consequential exhibition. Shaking off jetlag and whiplash from the contrasts on hand, Greg and Dan attempt to unpack their initial impressions of “The Laboratory of the Future.”
Intro/Outro: “The Boys are Back in Town,” by Thin Lizzy
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Discussed:
Olalekon Jeyifous – winner
of the Silver Lion for “The African Conservation Effort”
Killing Architects + Buzzfeed + local Chinese journalists: “Investigating Xinjiang’s Network of Detention Camps”
Wilson, Yoon, Howeler, Begley, Han – Unknown Unknown: A Space of Memory
Albanian Pavilion: Untimely Meditations
Liam Young – The Great Endeavour
Big Shovel – Daniel Yergin
Robots of Brixton – Kibwe Tavares
Forensic Architecture – The Nebelivka Hypothesis
The Dawn of Everything – David Graeber & David Wengrow
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
The Economy of Cities – Jane Jacobs
Sweet Water Foundation – “chaord”
DAAR – winner of the Golden Lion for “Ente di Decolonizzazione — Borgo Rizza”
Black City Astrolabe – J. Yolande Daniels
– Opening talk with Sir Peter Cook – Archigram
- What the Biennale criticizes is what NEOM is built on…
- Parallel: Brasilia – 50 years of progress in 5
- Contrast: V & A’s exhibition on Tropical Modernism
- Edifice Complex / The Myth of Tabula Rasa: You can’t build your way out of a lack of institutions – it leads to disastrous consequences.
- Contrast with Canada Pavilion’s “Not for Sale!”
Rating the Tote Bag Designs:
No. 5 – Saudi Arabia
No. 4 -- Hungary
No. 3 – UAE
No. 2 – Switzerland (“Neighbors” with Venezuela)
No. 1 – Canada – AAHA!
Oliver Wainwright’s review for the Guardian