LIONS VENICE. Awards of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition

Golden Lion for Best National Participation to Korea

Crow’s Eye View: The Korean Peninsula

Sekwon Ahn, Alessandro Belgiojoso, Nick Bonner (featuring Mansudae Art Studio and anonymous artists and architects of North Korea), Marc Brossa, Onejoon Che, Charlie Crane, Maxime Delvaux, Min Cho Jun, Ik-Joong Kang, Karolis Kazlauskas & PLT Planning and Architecture Ltd., Dongsei Kim, Hanyong Kim, Kichan Kim, Seok Chul Kim & Franco Mancuso, Kim Swoo Geun, Young June Lee, Chris Marker, Philipp Meuser, Hoon Moon, MOTOElastico, Osamu Murai, Peter Noever (featuring the North Korean architects exhibited in Flowers for Kim Il Sung, MAK, 2010), Kyong Park (featuring Nam June Paik and the artists of the Project DMZ, Storefront for Art and Architecture, 1988), James Powderly, Kyungsub Shin, Hyun-Suk Seo (featuring Kim Jong Hui et al.), Yehre Suh, Yi Sang, Dongwoo Yim

Commissioner/Curator: Minsuk Cho.Curators: Hyungmin Pai, Changmo Ahn. Deputy Curator: Jihoi Lee.

Pavilion at Giardini.

The jury wishes to recognize Korea with a Golden Lion for the extraordinary achievement of presenting a new and rich body of knowledge of architecture and urbanism in a highly charged political situation. Using diverse modes of representation that encourage interaction, it is research-in-action, which expands the spatial and architectural narrative into a geopolitical reality.

Photography © Giorgio Zucchiatti. Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezi.

Silver Lion for a National Participation to Chile

Monolith Controversies

Commissioner: Cristóbal Molina (National Council of Culture and the Arts of Chile). Curators: Pedro Alonso, Hugo Palmarola.

Pavilion at Arsenale.

The jury recognizes Chile with the Silver Lion for revealing a critical chapter of the history of global circulation of modernity. Focusing on one essential element of modern architecture - a prefabricated concrete wall - it critically highlights the role of elements of architecture in different ideological and political contexts.

Photography © Giorgio Zucchiatti. Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezi.

Silver Lion for the best research project of the section Monditalia part of the International Exhibitoin Fundamentals

Sales Oddity. Milano 2 and the Politics of Direct-to-home TV Urbanism

Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation

exhibited at Corderie, Arsenale.

The project presents critically a fundamental aspect of modern societies: how the power of media occupies other social spaces, both physically and politically. It is based on innovative research combining surveys and interviews with planners and residents and re-appropriation of the mass media language. While based on an Italian case, this issue is present in many international contexts dominated by contemporary technological and neo-liberal cultures.

Photography © Giorgio Zucchiatti. Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezi.

The Jury has decided to assign three Special Mentions to National Participations:
 
Canada

Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15
Josh Armstrong, Neil Aspinall, Michèle Aubé, Alain Barriault, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Caitlin Biggar, Tim Brown, Geoff Cox, Alain Fournier, Maude Francoeur, Jakob Gearheard, Miles Gertler, Gwen Healy, Caroline Inglis, Tyler Jones, Jack Kobayashi, Anamarija Korolj, Leon Lai, Christine Lamothe, Arnaud Paquin, Anders Peacock, Gino Pin, Fatima Rehman, Lola Sheppard, Matthew Spremulli, Simon Taylor, Mason White, Antonio Zedda
Commissioner: Barry Johns (Royal Architectural Institute of Canada). Deputy Commissioner: Sascha Hastings (Royal Architectural Institute of Canada). Deputy Curator: Lateral Office (Miles Gertler, Suzy Harris-Brandts, Julia Smachylo).
Pavilion at Giardini

France

Modernity: promise or menace?
Eugène Beaudouin, Vladimir Bodiansky, Maurice Cammas, Robert Camelot, Raymond Camus, Maurice Crevel, Jacques Lagrange, Marcel Lods, Jean de Mailly, Eugène Mopin, Jean Prouvé, Charles Ricome, Jacques Tati, Louis-Bernard Zehrfuss
Commissioner: Institut Français, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - Direction Générale des Patrimoines, in collaboration with the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine. Curator: Jean Louis Cohen.
Pavilion at Giardini

Russia

Fair Enough: Russia’s past our Present
Anton Kalgaev, Brendan McGetrick, Daria Paramonova
Commissioner: Semyon Mikhailovsky. Curators: Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design (Anton Kalgaev, Brendan McGetrick, Daria Paramonova).
 Pavilion at Giardini

The Jury has also decided to assign three Special Mentions to research projects of the section Monditalia part of the International Exhibition Fundamentals:

Radical Pedagogies: ACTION-REACTION-INTERACTION
Beatriz Colomina, Britt Eversole, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, Anna-Maria Meister, Federica Vannucchi, Amunátegui Valdés Architects, Smog.tv
exhibited at Corderie, Arsenale
 
Intermundia
Ana Dana Beroš
exhibited at Corderie, Arsenale
 
Italian Limes
Folder
exhibited at Corderie, Arsenale