Macedonia
The "Findings" project explores the urban identity of Skopje by accepting the simultaneous coexistence of different urban models. It analyzes the superior architectural artifacts realized between 1914-2014, recognizing and evaluating four distinct historical periods and architectural practices. The exhibition displays Skopje's architecture as a collection of findings within an amorphous architectural mass that shows how modernism can be adjusted and rearranged to express the link between global modernity and national architectural identity.
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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