Interview with the director of the Twelfth Biennial of Venice
"architecture that brings people together." It is the program of Kazuyo Sejima, the first woman director of the Venice Biennale which will open the doors to the public August 29. Return that is by design, its suggestions poietic, his desire to improve life. Between the end of intellectualism and pragmatism, in fact, it seems the mission which has always been the curator of this twelfth edition. Little known to the general public, the Japanese architect - Founder along with Ryue Nishizawa of Sanaa study more and more appreciated - she is the author of exquisite buildings like the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Institute for Modern Art in Valencia or the draft of the new Louvre in Lenz. But above all it is involved in the search space "fluid" as they should be democratic societies, because flexible anti-ideological, open to nature as a lung. Summarized in the title this year: People meet in achitecture. Everything following the teaching of Toyo Ito, whose Sejima was assistant for six years, from 1981 to 1987, and that synthesis of modernism and Eastern cultures, Zen Buddhism in the head, which has given so much to the architecture of the sixties and seventies. explain it clearly is Sejima herself: "The purpose of architecture is to create spaces that help to promote communication. Especially now that the latest technologies replace more and more dialogue, the real exchange. An architect should imagine fluid spaces and non-hierarchical able to create a seamless flow of information between inside and out, and to reassure people about their ability to reinvent them in all autonomy. " From this idea of \u200b\u200barchitecture, diverse, flexible, between Buddhist and flow of globalization, has led to the decision to subcontract the entire exhibition to a large number of architects, because each will produce a spatial module in communication with others. "Each participant - lets you know Sejima - was given a section of the rope factory, where it will be the curator himself. All artists and architects taking part in the Biennale, as well, will give proof of their way to articulate the proposed topic, explaining its position on the social mediation of space. In this way, the exhibition will feature a variety of viewpoints in fluid dialogue between them and not by a single orientation. "
approach in line with the many projects signed over the years. Boxes minimal and adaptable to all uses that let the light and charm of the landscape, deceiving in absolute osmosis between inside and outside. Not surprisingly, the study Sanaa has happened in some particular types of public buildings, museums, schools and municipalities, the symbol of democracy concerned to declare non-hierarchical relationships with citizens and let out to see what is happening inside. Real livability and usability of machines that have a lot to Toyo Ito and his Urban Robot (URBOT). Famous agency founded in 1971 in the climate of democratic utopia in architecture, inspired by the development of cheap technology, had seen the birth of a little 'everywhere trials futuristic (as in the utopian projects of the Italian Superstudio Archigram or English). A world deeply in the world of Sejima and the root of projects that rely on the discretion of aesthetics, not more high-tech influences, their social flexibility. Universe at the heart of the Twelfth Biennial, therefore, as lifetime achievement award also reaffirms the Dutchman Rem Koolhaas. Author, among others, of Delirious New York, fetish book for a generation that saw the constructive solution to the fury of liberal capitalism in spontaneous vertical growth in height in order to save the territory and not in a warning on the biological limits of civilization in a more severe social and territorial planning capable of cutting the legs to speculation. A Biennale that is looming very different then from previous 2006 and 2008, directed by Richard Burdett and Aaron Betsky, focusing on sustainability, the need to remedy the existing before proposing new volumes in the territories often slaughtered and dall'abusivismo speculation.
intellectual and rarefied, so far away from the plagues of the contemporary, the utopian elite Sejima perhaps even likely to be the weak point of this edition. That suspicion is reflected in the responses given by the director about it. Asked whether democracy in architecture today does not mean protection of resources, priority to environmental regeneration of what exists, director replicate a bit 'evasive: "I think the real ideal of plural spaces is closely linked to the issue of sustainability." To judge, of course, you will have to wait for the opening of the exhibition. For now, however, given the crisis that the world just from real estate speculation took off, it would seem a little 'bit. As if facing the upheavals already underway and we expect the answer would suffice provided by traditional cultures. The same ones that felt powerless in the massacre.
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