La Biennale di Venezia 2018
In its 2018 edition, La Biennale di Venezia di Architettura showcased again a number of participations of ETH members.
GOLDEN LION for Alessandro Bosshard, Li Tavor, Matthew van der Ploeg and Ani Vihervaara
for the Best National Participation: the curators of the Swiss Pavilion, Alessandro Bosshard, Li Tavor, Matthew van der Ploeg (assisistants at the chair of Alex Lehnerer) and Ani Vihervaara, former researcher at FCL, have been awarded the Golden Lion for their project "Svizzera 240". This internationally renowned award is for the first time given to the Swiss Pavilion.
SILVER LION for Jan de Vylder
for a promising young participant in the Exhibition Freespace to Jan de Vylder, Inge Vinck and Jo Taillieu, architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (Ghent, Belgium).
SPECIAL MENTION for Adam Caruso
for the National Participation of Grat Britain to Adam Caruso, Peter St John, Caruso St John Architects, and Marcus Taylor for their joint project "Island".
Amongst many other D-ARCH members present with exhibiitons and contributions are: Marc Angélil, Gion A. Caminada, Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein, Andrea Deplazes, Dietmar Eberle, Tom Emerson, Momoyo Kaijima, Anne Lacaton, Sacha Menz, Laurent Stalder.
external page http://www.labiennale.org/en/news/awards-biennale-architettura-2018
SWISS PAVILION: «Svizzera 240: House Tour»
external page The Swiss Pavilion is curated by Alessandro Bosshard, Matthew van der Ploeg, Li Tavor und Ani Vihervaara.
Das Departement Architektur der ETH Zürich lädt ein zum Gespräch „Tag der offenen Tür in einer Geschlossenen Gesellschaf“. Eine Wohnungsbesichtigung und ein Gespräch mit dem «Svizzera 240: House Tour»-Projektteam. Mit Francesca Hughes, Momoyo Kaijima, Alex Lehnerer, John Macarthur, Claudia Perren, Martino Stierli, Isa Stürm, Martha Thorne, Jan de Vylder, u.a. Einführung von Philip Ursprung, Vorsteher, Department Architektur. Schweizer Pavillon, Donnerstag 24. Mai 2018, 16.30.
Japanese Pavilion: «Architectural Ethnography»
external page The Japanese Pavilion is curated by Momoyo Kaijima, Laurent Stalder, and Yu Iseki
In the 20th century, the industrialization of society raised productivity and brought us convenient life with economic growth. However, the change has made us adapt our lives into an industrial network and created the barrier between people and environmental resources. One of the main roles of the 21st-century architecture is to break the barrier and to realize higher accessibility to resources. We set a point of view on people, not industry, in order to understand livelihood ecologically and architecturally. This is called the Architectural Ethnography, and guidebooks are the social common tool. In guidebooks, an old but new, unique architecture (not ones dominantly defined by an ‘architect as a creator’) have been reported, from hybrid buildings within high density of city life to the space used for urban-rural exchange, fitted into their local contexts in Tokyo and throughout the world. Based on these researches some projects to increase accessibility to resources around us are suggested. The purpose of this exhibition is to build platforms for active discussion of ecological issues in architectural and urban theory, and visualization of the 21st-century architecture.
Weitere Beteiligungen der ETH-Angehörigen
«Freespace» Exhibition
Gion A. Caminada: «Veser Vrin / Vrin sehen»
Adam Caruso, external page Caruso St John Architects mit Philip Heckhausen: «The façade is the window to the soul of architecture»
Jan de Vylder, external page architecten de vylder vinck taillieu
Tom Emerson, external page 6a architects: «Trees Down Here, The Natural History of Churchill College»
Anne Lacaton, external page Lacaton & Vassal Architects
British Pavilion
Adam Caruso, Caruso St John Architects and Marcus Taylor: «Island», external page the British Pavilion
Special Section «The Practice of Teaching»
Andrea Deplazes, external page Bearth & Deplazes Architekten
Collateral Events
Sacha Menz, mit Thomas Schröpfer (SUTD): Projekt «Dense and Green Building Typologies: Architecture as Urban Ecosystem» als Teil der Ausstellung «Time Space Existence»