Bridge of Life in the Biennale di Venezia
September 08, 2004
IILA Biennale di Venezia 2004
Translation of the information found on the IILA website courtesy of Fundación Amador.Title
TROPICAL IDENTITY presented within Metamorph, the Biennale di Venezia's 9th International Architecture Exhibition.
Date and Place:
September 9th to Novemeber 5th
IILA Pavillion
Venecia - Artiglierie dell’Arsenale
Organisation
Instituto Italo-Latino Americano
Presented by:
Instituto Italo-Latino Americano
Costa Rica Embassy
Panamá Embassy
With the cooperation of:
Fundación Amador
Instituto de Arquitectura Tropical-Costa Rica
Museo del Oro Precolombiano, Fundación.
Museo Banco Central de Costa Rica
Sponsors:
Centro Cultural del BID - Washington
Ad.Venture, Pescara
Ici impianti S.r.l.
I Guzzini Illuminazione
Kartell
E.t.h.o.s. S.r.l.
Ondulit Italia S.p.a.
Publish
Curated by:
Main Curator: Irma Arestizábal
Adjunct Curator: Alessandra Pinini d’Oliva Bonanni
Museographic Porject: Paola Pisanelli
Additional materials:
Catalog available in Italian, English and Spanish
Presentation:
The Biennale di Venezia's 9th International Architecture Exhibition, METAMORPH, will explore the fundamental changes under way in contemporary architecture, both in the theoretical and practical design field, and in the use of new building technologies. The layout of the METAMORPH exhibition hypothesises the visitor as a witness of these changes which, avoiding the traditional perspectives of interpretation, justify in an increasingly evident manner an open, innovative comparison with the evolution of the living organisms and their capacity for transformation. Architectural space is seen in terms of its capacity to live today's changes; the new materials receive and stress atmospheric effects, and the perception of architecture opens itself to a dynamic conception of time. The IILA has chosen for this Exhibition two examples of two neighboring countries: Costa Rica and Panamá. In these presentations we meet two contemporary positions of countries that have answered their architectural/environmental problems by making an immense laboratory out of the land itself. Such is the case of Frank O. Gehry's Museum of Biodiversity (internal exhibit spaces designed by Bruce Mau). He studied the climate, the cultural characteristics and architectural solutions that develop the surrounding areas creating its own typology, like Bruno Stagno has been doing for some time in Costa Rica.
Contacts:
Secretaría Cultural
Instituto Italo Latino-Americano
Piazza Benedetto Cairoli, 3
00186 Roma
Tel: ++39 06 68492246
Fax: ++39 06 6872834
e-mail: vs.culturale@iila.org
Links
http://www.labiennale.org/it/
http://www.arquitecturatropical.org/
http://www.arquitectura.com.ar/notas/stagno/
http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0925/environment_1-1.html
http://www.vitruvio.ch/dasandere/architectinthetropics.php
http://www.frank-gehry.com/
http://www.biomuseopanama.org
