Columbia GSAPP at the 2016 Venice Biennale

Columbia GSAPP is represented at the 2016 Venice Biennale through the numerous participation of its faculty and alumni in events, national pavilions, and Alejandro Aravena’s _Reporting from the Front_.

Columbia GSAPP is represented at the 2016 Venice Biennale through the numerous participation of its faculty and alumni in events, national pavilions, and Alejandro Aravena’s Reporting from the Front.

Here are some the events the Columbia GSAPP Faculty will be participating in at the Venice Biennale:

Hilary Sample and her firm MOS are participating in the U.S. Pavilion. The exhibition The Architectural Imagination (curated by Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon) comprises speculative architectural projects designed for specific sites in Detroit.

Juan Herreros and his firm estudioHerreros are participating in the Spanish Pavilion. The exhibition Unfinished (curated by Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintans) reveals architects’ alternate strategies and creative speculations developed in response to the economic and construction crisis in Spain of recent years. The project Galería de Arte Contemporáneo Carreras- Múgica by estudioHerreros is included in the exhibition’s thematic section “Adaptable”.

Studio-X Rio Director Pedro Rivera and his firm Rua Arquitetos are participating in the Brazilian Pavilion. The exhibition Juntos (curated by Washington Fajardo) highlights architectural projects that achieve change within the slow and politically tumultuous territory of large Brazilian cities. This includes Casa do Jongo by Rua Arquitetos, as well as the urban intervention Ciclo Rotas do Centro, co-produced by Columbia GSAPP’s Studio-X Rio.

Kunlé Adeyemi and his firm NLÉ will create a new installation of the Makoko Floating School project as part of the main exhibition, Reporting from the Front, curated by the 2016 Venice Biennale director Alejandro Aravena.

Bryony Roberts edited the book Tabula Plena, a collaboration between Columbia GSAPP and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and published by Lars Müller Publishers. A book launch will take place at the Nordic Pavilion, Giardini, on May 26, 2016 at 4:00pm.

Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Ignacio González Galán, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, and Marina Otero Verzier are Columbia GSAPP faculty and alumni who make up the After Belonging Agency that is curating the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale. The team will launch the After Belonging triennale program with an event at the Nordic Pavilion, Giardini, on May 28, 2016 at 1:00pm.

Below are some the events the Columbia GSAPP Students will be participating in at the Venice Biennale:

POSTPONED: Frampton Lecture

November 9, 2016, 6:30pm

Wood Auditorium

Marcelo López-Dinardi and V. Mitch McEwen are current members of the GSAPP Incubator. Their firm A(n) Office is participating alongside Hilary Sample (MOS) and others in the U.S. Pavilion’s exhibition The Architectural Imagination (curated by Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon).

Past is Prologue: Planning’s Critical Approach to 100 Years of Zoning

December 9, 2016, 9am

Wood Auditorium

As co-editor of The Architecture Lobby, Ph.D. candidate Manuel Shvartzberg is presenting the book Asymmetric Labors: The Economy of Architecture in Theory and Practice at the New Zealand Exhibition, Palazzo Bollani on May 27, 2016 at 3:00pm. The event also includes professor Leah Meisterlin.

October lectures

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Walter Hood Design

Wood Auditorium

October 10, 2016, 6:30pm

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POSTPONED: Frampton Lecture

Wood Auditorium

November 9, 2016, 6:30pm

Saphiya Abu Al-Maati is one of 10 graduate students and recent alumni contributing to the exhibition Between East and West: a Gulf at the Kuwait National Pavilion.

Michelle Tabet is collaborating with the architecture studio Aileen Sage to create the installation The Pool – Architecture, Culture and Identity in Australia for the Australian Pavilion, Giardini.

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