2024-12-22T01:47:39-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150262140/the-2021-venice-biennale-announces-its-international-jury Katherine Guimapang 2021-05-17T21:08:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/db/db5b04adb6579ac2c8b7d0fb9267c56a.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>News of this year's&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1689641/2021-venice-biennale" target="_blank">Venice Biennale</a>&nbsp;exhibitions, awards presentations, and pavilions has kept the architecture and design community busy with anticipation. On May 13, the Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia announced its 17th International jury members. Each recommended by the Biennale's curator&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150146340/2020-venice-biennale-asks-how-will-we-live-together" target="_blank">Hashim Sarkis</a>&nbsp;this year's jury will be led by esteemed architect and Pritzker Prize winner Kazuyo Sejima of&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/sanaa" target="_blank">SANAA</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>Sejima is joined by Sandra Barclay, Lamia Joreige, Lesley Lokko, and Luca Molinari. The jury will be responsible for awarding the Biennale's official prizes: The Golden Lion for best National Participation, Golden Lion for the best participant in the International Exhibition,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Silver Lion for a promising young participant in the International Exhibition. In addition to the official prizes, the Jury "may also award a maximum of one special mention to National Participations and a maximum of two special mentions to the participants in the International Exhibition<em>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2021" target="_blank">How ...</a></em></p> https://archinect.com/news/article/149948738/dispatch-from-the-venice-biennale-glimmers-of-hope-beyond-the-banal-and-self-harming Laura Amaya 2016-06-01T17:14:00-04:00 >2016-06-14T03:27:12-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/n5/n5jgqksuc6qkbnst.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Reporting from the Front seeks to also explore which forces&mdash;political, institutional or other&mdash;drive the architecture that goes &ldquo;beyond the banal and self-harming&rdquo;. The 2016 Venice Biennale calls for entries that not only exist in and of themselves, but that are a part of a larger social transformation. As Alejandro Aravena suggests, &ldquo;improving the quality of the built environment is an endeavor that has to tackle many fronts: from guaranteeing very concrete, down-to-earth living standards [&hellip;] to expanding the frontiers of civilization.&rdquo; Pavilions that go down this path exhibit very specific examples of how architecture expands its frontiers.</p><p>The <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/141742651/ireland-s-niall-mclaughlin-architects-to-focus-on-designing-for-alzheimer-s-in-2016-venice-biennale" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ireland Pavilion</a>&rsquo;s installation, Losing Myself, explores the different layers of a building as experienced by people suffering from dementia. Co-curator Niall McLaughlin contextualizes the experience of this condition: &ldquo;when you have dementia you lose the capacity to remember, to find yourself&hellip; a little bit like what happens in Venice after w...</p>