Portugal
The Portuguese representation at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition is a newspaper called "Homeland" that will be distributed three times during the exhibition. It aims to reflect on Portugal's modernization and address the country's housing crisis through the work of six groups of architects working on different types of housing in six cities. The newspaper is intended to be critical and propositional, seeking to break the current stalemate in architecture and promote new ways of practicing the discipline.
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...