Albania
A project to paint the facades of buildings in Tirana with vibrant colors was initiated by the city's mayor, resulting in colorful buildings throughout the city. The curators wanted to move beyond color and explore collaborations on architecture and design. They are seeking contributions from other nations and individuals to create a future territory for such collaborations. With Tirana's population growing rapidly from 200,000 to over one million inhabitants in just 15 years, there has been little time for design, leading to rapid urbanization and related phenomena.
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...
Latvia's participation in the Biennale Architettura 2023 is organized and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia.
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