The beauty of impermanence: An architecture of adaptability from the Sharjah Architecture Triennial
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''The Beauty of Impermanence'' is a scholarly documentation of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial. It explores architectural responses to sustainability, resource scarcity, and adaptability, highlighting the contrasting resource management strategies of the global North and South over the last four hundred years. The North exploited resources through a belief in(...)
The beauty of impermanence: An architecture of adaptability from the Sharjah Architecture Triennial
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''The Beauty of Impermanence'' is a scholarly documentation of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial. It explores architectural responses to sustainability, resource scarcity, and adaptability, highlighting the contrasting resource management strategies of the global North and South over the last four hundred years. The North exploited resources through a belief in endless abundance and technological advances, underpinned by religious and mythological justifications for colonialism and slavery. The South, characterized by resource scarcity, has innovated within these constraints, developing adaptable, sustainable solutions that may offer a blueprint for future global resource management. The book advocates for a shift away from a consumption-driven approach to one that is ecologically and ethically responsible, urging a collective resolve to create systemic change for a sustainable future. It is structured around the thematic strands of “Renewed Contextual,” “Extraction Politics,” and “Intangible Bodies” and features essays by noted scholars and practitioners. Detailed project spreads from Triennial participants, showcasing innovative practices that integrate environmentally friendly methods and materials, round off this volume that serves as a vital resource for those engaged in the fields of architecture, sustainability, and urban planning.
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Little Toad, Little Toad: Unbuilding Pavilion. The Korean Pavilion 19th International Architecture
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Published in conjunction with the Korean Pavilion’s exhibition at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, this volume reflects on the 30-year history of the Korean Pavilion and re-examines the vision of sustainability and the architectural presence of the national pavilion in the face of geopolitical shifts. The interplay between(...)
Little Toad, Little Toad: Unbuilding Pavilion. The Korean Pavilion 19th International Architecture
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Published in conjunction with the Korean Pavilion’s exhibition at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, this volume reflects on the 30-year history of the Korean Pavilion and re-examines the vision of sustainability and the architectural presence of the national pavilion in the face of geopolitical shifts. The interplay between temporariness and liveability of the pavilion is seen through the gaze of the “little toad” from a popular Korean children’s folk song. The exhibition examines architectural value and regeneration through the exchange of old and new. The pavilion is seen as a "house of exhibitions" where memories and narratives accumulate.
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Architecture meets agriculture in this "cookbook" that encourages sustainable practices in a desert region. Cooking and architecture both start with a set of ingredients that combine to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. This creative catalog for the UAE Pavilion at ''La Biennale di Venezia'' 2025 features "recipes" ranging from the technical to the(...)
Pressure Cooker recipes: An architectural cookbook
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Architecture meets agriculture in this "cookbook" that encourages sustainable practices in a desert region. Cooking and architecture both start with a set of ingredients that combine to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. This creative catalog for the UAE Pavilion at ''La Biennale di Venezia'' 2025 features "recipes" ranging from the technical to the fictional to the historic.
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The Um Slaim School: An Architecture of Connection: National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia. 19 Biennale d
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Contributing to a localized spatial discourse on Saudi Arabia and the broader region, this exhibition catalog for the country's national pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale forms part of a propositional pedagogy for contemporary urbanism in Riyadh, using the work of the local practice Syn Architects.
The Um Slaim School: An Architecture of Connection: National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia. 19 Biennale d
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Contributing to a localized spatial discourse on Saudi Arabia and the broader region, this exhibition catalog for the country's national pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale forms part of a propositional pedagogy for contemporary urbanism in Riyadh, using the work of the local practice Syn Architects.
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As Italian architect, engineer and curator Carlo Ratti puts it, "Architecture has always been a response to a hostile climate … our creations have always striven to bridge the gap between a harsh environment and the safe, livable spaces we require. Today, that dynamic approach is being taken to a new level—as climate becomes less forgiving. We have witnessed firsthand how(...)
Biennale Architettura 2025: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.
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As Italian architect, engineer and curator Carlo Ratti puts it, "Architecture has always been a response to a hostile climate … our creations have always striven to bridge the gap between a harsh environment and the safe, livable spaces we require. Today, that dynamic approach is being taken to a new level—as climate becomes less forgiving. We have witnessed firsthand how water and fire are attacking us with unprecedented ferocity." This two-volume publication accompanies the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, titled "Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective." Contributions from more than 750 participants—including architects and engineers, mathematicians and climate scientists, philosophers and artists, chefs and coders, writers and woodcarvers, farmers and fashion designers, and many more—explore how effective methods of adaptation to our changing environment demand inclusivity and collaboration.
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This publication unfolds an inside view of the installation by Elizabeth Hatz at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. It shows how the installation has been made using 133 pigmented prints of original drawings from Drawing Matter in Somerset, ArkDes in Stockholm, the architects' private archives and a large hand drawing by Hatz on a(...)
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Line, light, locus: Elizabeth Hatz
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This publication unfolds an inside view of the installation by Elizabeth Hatz at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. It shows how the installation has been made using 133 pigmented prints of original drawings from Drawing Matter in Somerset, ArkDes in Stockholm, the architects' private archives and a large hand drawing by Hatz on a specially designed table-bench. The fold-out cover illustrates the room's four walls, each of which organise four concept-sets relating to the Biennale theme of Freespace: Ground–Floor, Temple–Shed, Niche–Stoa and Mind–Space. The full-sized colour plates inside show in more detail the collage of drawings on each wall, illustrating how the printing process allowed Hatz to orchestrate the size as well as position of each drawing within these exploratory fields. Hatz's accompanying essay invokes the spatial experience created by the room-drawings and the rich conversations they capture.
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The first in a two-volume installment documenting the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial. The inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial includes works by architects, artists, activists, choreographers and scientists examining sites of resistance, emancipation and experimentation. The 27 essays featured here—the first of two volumes published for the(...)
Rights of future generations: Conditions. Sharjah Architecture Triennial
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The first in a two-volume installment documenting the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial. The inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial includes works by architects, artists, activists, choreographers and scientists examining sites of resistance, emancipation and experimentation. The 27 essays featured here—the first of two volumes published for the triennial—chronicle these sites.
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Cet ouvrage examine en détail l’histoire du pavillon du Canada, construit en 1958 dans les jardins de la Biennale de Venise, les forces en présence lors de la réalisation du bâtiment et son utilisation depuis soixante ans pour la présentation et l’exposition d’artistes et d’architectes canadiens. Il s’agit non seulement de souligner l’importance du pavillon dans le(...)
Le pavillon du Canada à la Biennale de Venise
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Cet ouvrage examine en détail l’histoire du pavillon du Canada, construit en 1958 dans les jardins de la Biennale de Venise, les forces en présence lors de la réalisation du bâtiment et son utilisation depuis soixante ans pour la présentation et l’exposition d’artistes et d’architectes canadiens. Il s’agit non seulement de souligner l’importance du pavillon dans le contexte plus large de l’architecture moderne, mais aussi de mettre en lumière son rôle d’avant-poste de la diplomatie culturelle. L’apparat iconographique du livre est constitué de documents d’archives – photographies, dessins et cartes –, ainsi que d’un portfolio réalisé par des photographes contemporains (Francesco Barasciutti et Andrea Pertoldeo) qui montrent l’état du bâtiment avant, pendant et après les travaux de restauration de 2018. Les différentes contributions apportent un éclairage sur le contexte culturel et politique dans lequel s’est inscrite la commande du pavillon canadien (Cammie McAtee); la conception et la construction de la structure architecturale, ainsi que les relations avec l’architecte Enrico Peressutti et l’agence BBPR (Réjean Legault); la place du pavillon dans le contexte culturel italien de l’après-guerre (Serena Maffioletti); son retentissement, de l’inauguration en 1958 à la restauration de 2018 (Josée Drouin-Brisebois); le projet de restauration (Susanna Caccia Gherardine); et, enfin, le lien entre le pavillon du Canada et les jardins de la Biennale (Franco Panzini).
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A wooden Japanese house slated for demolition will instead be moved to Venice for exhibition. Yet the house put on display will not appear in its original form. Dismantled for shipping, it will be reassembled on-site in new configurations created by architects and artisans from Japan, who will add new or local materials and other elements in the process. In other words,(...)
Co-Ownership of action : trajectories of elements
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A wooden Japanese house slated for demolition will instead be moved to Venice for exhibition. Yet the house put on display will not appear in its original form. Dismantled for shipping, it will be reassembled on-site in new configurations created by architects and artisans from Japan, who will add new or local materials and other elements in the process. In other words, the exhibition of the house will be a fantastical installation that combines old and new in a composite of creative efforts by multiple designers and craftsmen. This book, edited by architect Kozo Kadowaki, explores the project in detail.
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Empavillonner
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Ouvrage collectif (premier numéro de la collection « Focus ») consacré à l'analyse des pavillons d'exposition (expositions universelles, biennales) du point de vue de leur architecture, croisant les contributions de designers et architectes, d'historiens, de philosophes et esthéticiens. Qu'il s'agisse, entre autres exemples, du Pavillon France réalisé par l'architecte(...)
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Ouvrage collectif (premier numéro de la collection « Focus ») consacré à l'analyse des pavillons d'exposition (expositions universelles, biennales) du point de vue de leur architecture, croisant les contributions de designers et architectes, d'historiens, de philosophes et esthéticiens. Qu'il s'agisse, entre autres exemples, du Pavillon France réalisé par l'architecte Jean-Paul Viguier à l'occasion de l'Exposition Universelle de Séville (1992), de celui des Pays-Bas signé de l'agence MVRDV dans le cadre l'Exposition Universelle d'Hanovre (2000) ou encore, avant eux, des pavillons présentés comme « manifestes de la modernité », tels que ceux de Richard Buckminster Fuller (Pavillon États-Unis, île Sainte-Hélène, Montréal, 1967), de Le Corbusier (Pavillon Philips, Bruxelles, 1958) de Robert Mallet-Stevens et des frères Martel (Pavillon du tourisme, Paris, 1925), tous sembleraient procéder d'une même intention (ou prétention)?: celle de définir les voies et préceptes d'une architecture résolument nouvelle laquelle, contestant ou refusant parfois ce qui a cours, préfigure et marque de quoi serait faite l'époque à-venir.
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