Portugal
Portugal presents a site-specific pavilion in Venice with four important works by architect Álvaro Siza, promoting participatory urban regeneration and community building. The pavilion also showcases Siza's integration of Italian architectural culture and the legacy of Aldo Rossi. The pavilion has sparked the completion of the Campo di Marte urban project and will become a habitat for the Giudecca community.
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...