XII International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo
EVERYDAY
Everyday, the twelfth edition of the International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo (XII BIA), takes place from September 10 to December 9, 2019. At SESC 24 de Maio from September 10 to September 28, 2019 and at Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP) from September 13 to December 9, 2019.
"The discrete power of everyday life lies in its ability to translate the way we inhabit, use natural resources, and maintain space, into common practices that make architecture a shared concern of high relevance," say the curators of this edition, Vanessa Grossman, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Ciro Miguel, all three members of the junior faculty at D-ARCH.
Everyday, proposes to professionals and the public to reflect on the everyday - the most trivial dimension of reality - to investigate architecture and the built environment of the 21st century.
Everyday presents practices and projects ranging from construction to design, planning, photography, pedagogy, research, policy making and activism, crossing disciplines, scales and boundaries.
Everyday is structured around three thematic axes: Everyday Stories, Everyday Resources and Everyday Maintenance. Everyday Stories examines the myriad ways architects and other design professionals reinterpret the everyday, reporting real or fictitious stories linked to the production of space, ranging from the poetic subtleties of the quotidian to the revelation of the violence, crises and inequalities that affect lives daily. Everyday Resources addresses the growing awareness and critical engagement of architects, landscape designers, and urban planners (among others) with processes and uses of everyday resources—both in urban and rural contexts— in the Anthropocene era. Everyday Maintenance explores the maintenance of architecture and the city, a long overlooked subject now gaining attention in current political spheres, in theoretical debates and with technological research worldwide.
The Curators
Vanessa Grossman is a Brazilian architect and historian of architecture who graduated from the Universities of São Paulo and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She holds a PhD from Princeton University, and in 2019-2020 she will join the ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher.
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is a French architect, urban planner and a researcher who graduated from ENSA-Marseille and holds a PhD from the ETH Zurich, where she is a teaching assistant and researcher.
Ciro Miguel is a Brazilian architect and photographer who graduated from the University of São Paulo and Columbia University, and is also a teaching assistant and researcher at ETH Zurich.
Contributing Members of D-ARCH
- Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete, Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design, ETH Zurich
- Dr. Sascha Delz, Chair of Architecture and Design, Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil, ETH Zurich, with Rainer Hehl, Patricia Ventura
- Prof. Ja De Vylder, with Universum Carrousel Journey – Studio Jan de Vylder, ETH Zurich
- Prof. Momoyo Kaijima, with Atelier Bow Wow (Tokyo)
- Prof. Dr. Elli Mosayebi, with Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten, Zurich
- Prof. Alexandre Theriot, with Bruther, Paris
- Rina Rolli, Noël Picco, David Moser, and Oliver Burch, Students at D-ARCH, ETH Zürich
- Li Tavor, Assistant Professorship of Architecture and Urban Design, Prof. Dr. Alex Lehnerer, ETH Zürich
- Ludwig Berger, Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen and Matthias Vollmer, Research Associates at D-ARCH, ETH Zürich, with SCANVISION
