Peru
The Peruvian modernity has set the basis for the new architecture and urbanism through the encounters of the formal and the informal in the city. Lima presents itself as a modern city that has absorbed the colonial, the vernacular, and the spontaneous, producing urban forms depicting these encounters. This exhibition reviews the absorption process of modernity in Peru and poses the question of how architecture will build the city in the next century.
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...