Spain
"Becoming" exhibition at the Spanish Pavilion showcases Spanish architecture through the works of architects and students, advocating for a rethinking of learning. It features an informative layer on the pavilion designed by Vaquero Palacios in 1952 and showcases 400 works from Spanish educational environments, telling the story of future architecture through 55 adjectives or Phrases
Supermarket sweep… the Latvian pavilion which has been transformed into a minimart.
This contribution brings a little levity to the long trek through the halls of the Arsenale.
Choice as the basis of architectural process, the pop aesthetics emphasizing the languages of consumption as in Hamilton or Warhol: everything is structured by the dynamics of commerce.
Welcome to T/C Latvija, surely the most instagrammed installation of this edition of the Biennale
Latvia is reopening the archive boxes once again, reminding us (including the Biennial Presidency) of everything that has already been thought up and invented, and inviting us to place the most urgently needed products in the basket, to combine them with one another, and ultimately consume all the knowledge.
Fun, colourful and thought-provoking, it offers a tongue-in-cheek moment to the Arsenale sequence...