2024-11-14T17:18:04-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150059721/irish-pavilion-at-the-2018-venice-architecture-biennale-will-explore-important-role-of-markets-for-rural-communities Mackenzie Goldberg 2018-04-13T13:48:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/xp/xpv2mrtl9banc9h5.JPG?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The Irish Pavilion at the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/871008/2018-venice-biennale" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2018 Venice Architecture Biennale</a>, opening May 26th, will explore the importance of the rural marketplace. Once the economic and social hubs of the <a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/1102230/countryside" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">countryside</a>, many of these marketplaces have seen their roles diminished as&nbsp;rural regions experience accelerating change. Focusing on small towns with a population less that 5,000 people, the exhibition "aims to reassert the declining rural market square as a public place of social, political and cultural exchange, central to community cohesion."</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/qg/qg3mollfnobuthn8.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/qg/qg3mollfnobuthn8.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Irish Pavilion &copy; Mark Wickham</figcaption></figure><p>Curated by a team of six young Irish architects and designers, <em>Free Market&nbsp;</em>will "act as a real market square, offering an engaging place to meet, to pause, to interact with the exhibits and openly exchange ideas. Evoking the character of the market space through the use of texture, proportion, color and sound, the pavilion will also include architectural models and drawings describing both the historic and contemporary conditions of these t...</p>