The world-renowned Venice Architecture Biennial is to open its doors for its seventeenth year from May 23 and November 29, 2020. What’s more, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) and curator Neyran Turan have teamed up to feature their “Architecture as a Measure” project at the exhibition’s Turkey pavillion. Besty Clifton, E.Ece Emanetoğlu, Ian Erickson, Samet Mor and Melis Uğurlu will co-curate the project alongside Ms. Turan, who both lectures at the University of California Berkeley and heads NEMESTUDIO Architecture. A jury, including Aslı Çiçek, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Dr. Ayşen Savaş, Han Tümertekin, and Ertuğ Uçar and had decided upon and announced the project over a two-phase open call for the Venice Architecture Biennial’s Turkey pavillion. The jury later stated that they based their decision on wanting to bring fresh perspectives not only to the relationship between climate change and architecture, but also to current discussions in architecture. “Architecture as a Measure” project aims to both architecturally present a bold and dialogue-evoking line of green thinking that stretches beyond environmental and technological determinism, within the current political framework surrounding climate change, all the while putting forth a drastic alternative to Turkey’s architecture and construction sectors. The section process took place between April 24 and June 14, 2019. Only five of the forty-four projects that successfully met the application criteria during were invited to continue into the second phase. Details about both the Venice Architecture Biennial’s Turkey pavillion and “Architecture as a Measure” project itself will be released in 2020.
“How Will We Live Together?” Titled ‘How will we live together?’, the biennale is expected to host both the exhibition of both its own coordinator, Hashim Sarkis, alongside the various country pavillions-including Turkey’s-at the Arsenale and Giardini. Mr. Sarkis is both an architect and writer of Lebanese origin. In addition to both running architectural firm of the same name and heading the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he at point had also held a lengthy career at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Backed by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts alongside twenty-one other supporters, Turkey has been participating in the Venice Architecture Biennial since 2014 at the same venue at the Arsenale, and shall continue to do so well into 2034.
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