It is well known that la Biennale operates in different sectors, not just in Art and Architecture (and in particular in Dance, Music, Theatre, and Cinema). And here too, Koolhaas has left nothing to chance. The Exhibition will include in the Monditalia section the presence of activities from these different Biennale sectors.

Dance, Music, Theatre, and Cinema have their own spaces in Monditalia, at the Corderie dell’Arsenale, in which to present elements of complex life and spaces in which architecture may be imagined or planned. The Dance, Music, Theatre and Cinema Directors accepted the challenge and are developing most of their programs (Festival and College) within the Corderie dell’Arsenale in the Architecture Exhibition. Never has all the Biennale been in the one exhibition so much as this year.

The physical presence of the Arsenale is interpreted as an theatre set, dedicated to a single theme – Italy. Collectively representing a comprehensive portrait of the host country, the exhibitions and a series of theatrical productions explore architecture, politics, economics, religion, technology, industry, to form a single narrative throughout the Corderie. Although, in fact, reminds us more to the front door of the Seville Fair.

Exhibition contributors listed in order of location, following their geographical coordinates. Representing a scan that defines the exhibition geography in itself, the 41projects will cross the Italian territory from South to North, and more extensively from Africa to the Alps and Europe.

Luminaire. OMA in collaboration with Swarovski. Monditalia. Corderie dell’Arsenale. 14.Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Fundamentals, la Biennale di Venezia. Photography © Gilbert McCarragher. Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia. Click above to see larger image.

1. Italian Ghosts
DAAR
32° 06’ 19’’ N / 20° 04’ 48’’ E

2. Post-frontier
Giacomo Cantoni, Pietro Pagliaro
34° 39’ 05’’ N / 18° 40’ 36’’ E

3. Intermundia
Ana Dana Beroš
35° 29’ 57’’ N / 12° 36’ 18’’ E

4. Theaters of Democracy
XML
37° 04’ 28’’ N / 15° 16’ 44’’ E

5. The Third Island Ag ‘64 ‘94 ‘14
Antonio Ottomanelli
38° 26’ 29’’ N / 15° 54’ 01’’ E

6. The Architecture of Hedonism - Three Villas on the Island of Capri
Martino Stierli, Hilar Stadler, Nils Nova with a contribution by Francesco Vezzoli
40° 33’ 02’’ N / 14° 14’ 26’’ E

7. Legible Pompeii
Lucia Allais, MOS
40° 45’ 06’’ N / 14° 28’ 53’’ E

8. Pompeii, the Secret Museum, and the Sexopolitical Foundations of the Modern European Metropolis
Beatriz Preciado
40° 45’ 06’’ N / 14° 28’ 53’’ E

9. Antonioni’s Villa
Will McLean with an essay by Niklas Maak
41° 03’ 22’’ N / 08° 56’ 52’’ E

10. La Maddalena
Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine
41° 12’ 53’’ N / 09° 24’ 21’’ E

11. Cinecittà Occupata
Ignacio G. Galán
41° 51’ 07’’ N / 12° 34’ 31’’ E

12. 99 Dom-Ino
Space Caviar
41° 52’ 38’’ N / 12° 34’ 34’’ E

13. A Minor History within the Memories of a National Heritage
Stefano Graziani
41° 53’ 09’’ N / 12° 28’ 35’’ E

14. All Roads Lead to Rome. Yes, but where exactly?
Teresa Cos
41° 53’ 36’’ N / 12° 28’ 58’’ E

15. Rome - San Giacomo Hospital the Ghost Block ofGiambattista Nolli
stARTT
41° 54’ 27’’ N / 12° 28’ 39’’ E

16. L’Aquila’s Post-quake Landscapes (2009–2014)
Andrea Sarti, Claudia Faraone
42° 21’ 05’’ N / 13° 23’ 56’’ E

17. Assisi Laboratory
AMO, Giampiero Mariottini, Marco Sammicheli
43° 04’ 26’’ N / 12° 36’ 25’’ E

18. The Room of Peace (Siena)
Bas Princen
43° 19’ 02’’ N / 11° 19’ 54’’ E

19. Superstudio. The Secret Life of the ContinuousMonument
Gabriele Mastrigli
43° 46’ 19’’ N / 11° 16’ 08’’ E

20. Space Electronic: then and now
Catharine Rossi
43° 46’ 25’’ N / 11° 14’ 47’’ E

21. Ground Floor Crisis
Matteo Ghidoni
43° 46’ 26’’ N / 11° 15’ 15’’ E

22. Biblioteca Laurenziana
AMO, Charlie Koolhaas, Rem Koolhaas, Manuel Orazi
43° 46’ 29’’ N / 11° 15’ 14’’ E

23. The Remnants of the Miracle
Luka Skansi
43° 53’ 07’’ N / 10° 41’ 10’’ E

24. Nightswimming: Discotheques in Italy from the 1960s until now
Giovanna Silva
44° 00’ 02’’ N / 12° 39’ 21’’ E

25. Dancing Around Ghosts - Milano Marittima’s panem et circenses
de Gayardon Bureau
44° 16’ 38’’ N / 12° 20’ 54’’ E

26. Urbs Oblivionalis. Urban Spaces and Terrorism in Italy
Elena Pirazzoli, Roberto Zancan
44° 30’ 21’’ N / 11° 20’ 36’’ E

27. The Landscape has no Rear
Nicola Russi
44° 43’ 52’’ N / 10° 37’ 45’’ E

28. Tortona Stories
Brendan Cormier, Fabrizio Gallanti
44° 53’ 40’’ N / 08° 51’ 48’’ E

29. Countryside Worship
Matilde Cassani
44° 55’ 33’’ N / 09° 54’ 43’’ E

30. Architecture of Fulfilment: a Night with a Logi
stic WorkerBehemoth
45° 03’ 19’’ N / 09° 26’ 01’’ E

31. La Fine del Mondo
Marco Fusinato, Felicity D. Scott, Mark Wasiuta
45° 04’ 11’’N / 07° 40’ 14’’ E

32. The Business of People
Ramak Fazel
45° 04’ 11’’N / 07° 40’ 14’’ E

33. 152 Mediterranea
l’AUC, Cédric Libert, Thomas Raynaud
45° 24’ 27’’ N / 12° 20’ 25’ E

34. Effimero: or the Postmodern Italian Condition
Léa-Catherine Szacka
45° 26’ 02’’ N / 12° 21’ 16’’ E

35. Immediate Surroundings. Residences of Italian Mafia Organizations
Tommaso Bonaventura, Alessandro Imbriaco, Fabio Severo
45° 27’ 01’’ N / 09° 08’ 52’’ E

36. Radical Pedagogies: ACTION-REACTION-INTERACTION
Beatriz Colomina, Britt Eversole, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, Anna-Maria Meister, Federica Vannucchi, Amunátegui Valdés Architects, Smog.tv
45° 28’ 20’’ N / 09° 10’ 24’’ E

37. Sales Oddity. Milano 2 and the Politics of Direct-to-home TV Urbanism
Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation
45° 29’ 56’’ N / 09° 15’ 57’’ E

38. Z! Zingonia, mon amour
Argot ou La Maison Mobile, Marco Biraghi
45° 35’ 31’’ N / 09° 36’ 21’’ E

39. Designing the Sacred
Marco Sammicheli, Andrea Dall’Asta, Giuliano Zanchi
45° 41’ 51’’ N / 09° 40’ 14’’ E

40. Italian Limes
Folder
46° 45’ 50’’ N / 10° 53’ 20’’ E

41. Alps
Armin Linke
47° 15’ 49’’ N / 11° 23’ 53’’ E

Luminaire. OMA in collaboration with Swarovski. Monditalia. Corderie dell’Arsenale. 14.Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Fundamentals, la Biennale di Venezia. Photography © Gilbert McCarragher. Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia. Click above to see larger image.

Rem Koolhaas was born in Rotterdam in 1944. He began his career as a journalist, working for the Haagse Post, and as a set-designer in the Netherlands and Hollywood. He beganHe frequented the Architectural Association School in London and studied with Oswald Mathias Ungers at Cornell University. In 1978, he wrote Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan, which has become a classic of contemporary architectural theory. In 1975 – together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp – he founded OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture).

The most important works by Koolhaas and OMA, from its foundation until the mid-1990s, include the Netherlands Dance Theatre at The Hague, the Nexus Housing at Fukuoka in Japan, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Grand Palais of Euralille and Lille, the Villa dall’Ava, the Très Grande Bibliothèque, the Jussieu library in Paris, the ZKM in Karlsruhe and the Seattle Public Library.

Together with Koolhaas’s reflections on contemporary society, these buildings appear in his second book, S,M,L,XL (1995), a volume of 1376 pages written as though it were a “novel about architecture”. Published in collaboration with the Canadian graphic designer, Bruce Mau, the book contains essays, manifestos, cartoons and travel diaries.

In 2005, with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman, he was the founder to the prestigious Volume magazine, the result of a collaboration with Archis (Amsterdam), AMO and C-lab (Columbia University NY).

His built work includes the Qatar National Library and the Qatar Foundation Headquarters (2018), Fondation Galeries Lafayette in Paris (2018), Fondazione Prada in Milan (2015/2018), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2015), the headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing (2012), Casa da Musica in Porto (2005), Seattle Central Library (2004), and the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin (2003). Current projects include the Taipei Performing Arts Centre, a new building for Axel Springer in Berlin, and the Factory in Manchester.

Koolhaas directed the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale and is a professor at Harvard University, where he directs The Project on the City, a research programme on changes in urban conditions around the world. This programme has conducted research on the delta of the Pearl River in China (entitled Great Leap Forward) and on consumer society (The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping). Taschen Verlag has published the results. Now is preparing a major exhibition for the Guggenheim museum to open in 2019 entitled Countryside: Future of the World.

Among the awards he has won in recent years, we mention here the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize (2000), the Praemium Imperiale (2003), the Royal Gold Medal (2004) and the Mies Van Der Rohe prize (2005). In 2008, Time mentioned him among the 100 most influential people of the planet.

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