[A] A Virtual Tour of the National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2014
05/06/2014.
National Participations. Venice Biennale 2014. [VEN] Italy
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Today opening all National Pavilions and this is a virtual tour of the Venice Biennale 2014. Check out each of the national pavilions currently on display for Rem Koolhaas‘ chosen theme "Absorbing Modernity, 1914-2014."
ALBANIA. Potential Monuments of Unrealised Futures. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Photography courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
ARGENTINA. IDEAL / REAL. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
AUSTRALIA. Augmented Australia 1914 – 2014. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
AUSTRIA. Plenum. Places of Power. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
BAHRAIN, Reign of Fundamentalists and Other Arab Modernisms. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
BELGIUM Intérieurs, notes et figures. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
BRAZIL BRAZIL: MODERNITY AS TRADITION. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
CHILE. Monolith Controversies. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
CHINA, People’s Republic of China. Mountains beyond Mountains. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
COSTA RICA** Ticollage City. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
CROATIA. Fitting Abstraction. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
CZECH, Republic. 2x100 mill.m2: Collective Dream. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
DENMARK. Empowerment of Aesthetics. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
DOMINICAN, Republic. Fair Concrete/La Feria Concreta. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
FINLAND. (Pavilion Alvar Aalto) Re-Creation. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
FRANCE. Modernity: promise or menace? Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
ESTONIA. Interspace. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
GERMANY. Bungalow Germania. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
GREAT BRITAIN. A Clockwork Jerusalem. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
INDONESIA. Craftmanship: Material Consciousness. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
IRAN. Instant Past. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
IRELAND. Infra-Éireann: Making Ireland Modern. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
ISRAEL. The Urburb. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
ITALY. Innesti/grafting. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
JAPAN. In the real world. Photography © Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.
“Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014. In 1914, it made sense to talk about a “Chinese” architecture, a “Swiss” architecture, an “Indian” architecture… One hundred years later, under the influence of wars, diverse political regimes, different states of development, national and international architectural movements, individual talents, friendships, random personal trajectories, and technological developments, architectures that were once specific and local have become seemingly interchangeable and global. Has national identity been sacrificed to modernity?
Participating countries will engage a single theme – Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014 – and will show, each in their own way, the process of the erasure of national characteristics in favor of the almost universal adoption of a single modern language and a single repertoire of typologies. But the transition to what seems like a universal architectural language is a more complex process than we typically recognize, involving significant encounters between cultures, technical inventions, and hidden ways of remaining “national.” In a time of ubiquitous google research and the flattening of cultural memory, it is crucial for the future of architecture to resurrect and expose these narratives.
By telling the history of the last 100 years cumulatively, the exhibitions in the National Pavilions will generate a global overview of architecture’s evolution into a single, modern aesthetic, and at the same time uncover within globalization the survival of unique national features and mentalities that continue to exist and flourish even as international collaboration and exchange intensify…”
Rem Koolhaas. Curator of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition.
Dates.- 07 June 2014 - 23 November 2014.
Venue.- Pavilions in Giardini. Venice, Italy.
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