Studio 8
Venice Travelling Studio
Scott Woods & Alan Pert
Introduction
The Venice Biennale (La Biennale Di Venezia) is the world’s premier international cultural festival. Since its inaugural Art Biennale in 1895, the Venice Biennale has grown to incorporate recurring festivals of Art, Architecture, Dance, Music, Cinema and Theatre in locations throughout Venice, Italy.
The first Venice Architecture Biennale (La Biennale Architettura) was held under the direction of famed Italian architect and theorist Paolo Portoghesi in 1980. Thereafter directors including Aldo Rossi (1985 and 1986), Kazuyo Sejima (2010) and Rem Koolhaas (2014) helped forge the festival’s formidable reputation as a generator and proliferator of new discourses of architecture globally. Such is the importance of La Biennale Architettura a who’s-who and who-wants-to-be of world architecture collide on the famed pavements of Piazza San Marco, Ponte di Rialto and Punta della Dogana to soak in vast swathes of exhibition, performance and discussion with established and emerging international architects, urbanists, theorists, curators, scholars and many from outside the discipline.
Process
La Biennale Architettura 2018 runs May – November. The 2018 Venice Travelling Studio provides students with the ideal means to observe, document and critically engage with the vanguard of contemporary curatorial practices which are re-defining architectural exhibition making, representation, publicity, museology, and indeed the role of the architect today. These observations and analyses will be supported by themes of New Institutionalism (the global proliferation of the temporary festival phenomenon – the Venice Biennale being only one), Identity and Curatorship particularly within the context of Venetian practices and the work of Carlo Scarpa renowned for his many fine modernist buildings within the Veneto region.
The Venice Travelling Studio positions students within the best possible context to cite, investigate and propose new paradigms for the realisation of architecture as curatorial condition.
=== PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATIONS FOR THIS STUDIO ARE CLOSED AS OF 1/4/2018 ===
ST1/08 Fridays 12:00-16:00 in MSD Room 215