2024-12-22T02:21:25-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149948081/dispatch-from-the-venice-biennale-mediterranean-connections-through-the-crisis Laura Amaya 2016-05-31T09:36:00-04:00 >2016-06-02T23:41:44-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/gy/gybg1izm74kfnws0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/141508400/venice-biennale-director-alejandro-aravena-our-challenge-must-be-to-go-beyond-architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alejandro Aravena&rsquo;s brief</a> for the Fifteenth International Architecture Exhibition at the 2016 Venice Biennale calls for projects that &ldquo;are scrutinizing the horizon looking for new fields of action, facing issues like segregation, inequalities, peripheries, access to sanitation, natural disasters, housing shortage, migration, informality, crime, traffic, waste, pollution and the participation of communities.&rdquo; Some curators have taken a <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149947992/dispatch-from-the-venice-biennale-cool-kids-and-guerrilla-interventions" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">belligerent approach</a>, while others have used it to connect places that are geographically separated by culturally linked.</p><p><a href="http://pavilionofturkey16.iksv.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Darzan&agrave;</a>, the Turkey Pavilion on the second floor of the Arsenale Sale d&rsquo;Armi, displays a single object: a vessel. Its name, Ba&#351;tarda, references the hybrid ships characteristic of Turkey and Italy from the eleventh to the nineteenth century. They are ships with no clear origin, the illegitimate children of assembled parts of undefined origin. &ldquo;We want to change the negative connotation of the word,&rdquo; declares Mehmet K&uuml;t&uuml;k&ccedil;&uuml;o&#287;lu, one o...</p>