United States Of America
The American Framing exhibition celebrates the potential of wooden structures in American architecture, exploring the history and culture of wooden structures. The exhibition includes a life-size installation of a wooden-framed house and models of important buildings, as well as commissioned photographs and furniture designs. The show highlights the pragmatism, availability, and simplicity of wooden structures, which have long been an important contribution to American architecture.
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...