Yule Heibel on 2008-03-18
- well, good luck with that tall order...
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18 Mar 08
Yule Heibel- Intro to the upcoming (Sept.14-Nov.23) 11th Annual Architecture Exhibition / Venice Biennale, directed this year by Aaron Betsky. Its title is "Out There: Architecture Beyond Building." (Preview from Sept.11-13/08)
I highlighted a quote by Betsky that describes architecture at some metalevel of praxis -- not as the business of building as such, but as a way of thinking about the human-made environment.architecture biennale canadianarchitect theory venice_biennale
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According to Aaron Betsky, the 11th Architecture Biennale points out what should be an obvious fact: architecture is not building. Betsky has for six years been the director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam, one of the most prestigious museums and architecture centres in the world. He states that, "Buildings are objects and the act of building leads to such objects, but architecture is something else. It is the way we think and talk about buildings, how we represent them, how we build them. This is architecture. More generally, architecture is a way of representing, shaping and perhaps even offering critical alternatives to the human-made environment. In this world it is not enough to keep the rain out, create room for office cubicles, or fit into a context that either changes continually or becomes artificially frozen. In fact, buildings are not enough. They are the tombs of architecture, the residue of the desire to make another world, a better world, and a world open to possibilities beyond the everyday."
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more than a dozen large-scale site-specific installations that will ask the question how we can be at home in the modern world.
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There it will offer an alternative to urban planning in viral architecture. It will present manifestos for an architecture beyond building. It will show visions that might become the building blocks for such an architecture. It will finally bring us back to Eden.
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