Belgium
The BRAVOURE team presents at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition a reflection on whether it is possible to achieve a degree of bravura in architecture despite scarcity being the ultimate challenge. Rather than presenting their own work, they illustrate this reflection from the perspective of 13 projects by different architects, exhibiting architectural fragments that express the ability to evoke the concept of bravura from scarcity.
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...