2024-11-23T22:02:53-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/139550128/curatorial-team-announced-for-the-british-pavilion-at-the-15th-venice-biennale Nicholas Korody 2015-10-23T04:19:00-04:00 >2015-10-24T18:34:30-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a5/a5ddd1c88efb16217b31c577ef6880fe?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The British Council <a href="http://design.britishcouncil.org/blog/2015/oct/22/british-council-announces-winning-venice-proposal/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">announced</a> today the winning proposal for the British Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennial of Architecture: <em>Home Economics, </em>a project&nbsp;authored by the architecture writers <a href="https://twitter.com/tontita00?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shumi Bose</a> and <a href="http://www.jackself.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jack Self</a> alongside the architect and planner Finn Williams.</p><p>According to the curatorial team,&nbsp;<em>Home Economics</em>&nbsp;will address "the frontline of British architecture: the family home." The team plans to divide the British Pavilion into a series of 1:1 &nbsp;immersive domestic spaces, designed by a "multidisciplinary team of architects, artist, designers and developers."&nbsp;</p><p>In their proposal, the team writes, "The exhibition will ask urgent questions about the future of housing. Social and technological changes are collapsing the patterns of domestic life - but the design of the home hasn't caught up. Can the house ever escape its economic status as an asset? Should our homes still be considered private spaces? How do new types of families and households produce new spatial needs? What are the m...</p>