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You say Biennial, I say Biennale: 9 of Today’s Most Critical Architecture Biennials

2017-04-06T12:50:00-04:00

Every two years, hundreds of thousands flock to the historic small islands of Venice, where history and art meet to give us one of the most influential fixtures in the architectural world—The Venice Biennale of Architecture. While originally a more specialized art-world affair, biennials now figure in the larger cultural menu drawing huge crowds and the exhibitionary format, occurring every other year, has proliferated in the past two decades offering the field myriad options for getting one's expo fix.

Context as content: mapping the contemporary at the 2016 Oslo Triennale with OMA, Andrés Jaque and more

2016-09-19T11:54:00-04:00

Maybe the closest thing to new construction in After Belonging, the sixth Oslo Architecture Triennale, is an apple press assembled with two 2x2’s, some nails, a saw, a gallon bucket, a heavy pole, a colander, a hammer, a plastic bag, a funnel and a car jack. Eriksen Skajaa Arkitekter designed the device after finding an abandoned apple orchard on the eastern edge of the Torshov asylum center, which houses refugees from wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries.

Home away from home: an interview with the curators of the Oslo Architecture Triennale

2016-07-21T09:50:00-04:00

Sometime in the last few years, your couch became a rentable asset; your bedroom, a factory; your taste, a commodity; your doorstep, the final destination for a package that has more freedom of movement than most of the world’s population. What, then, does it mean to be at home today?