"Unfolding Pavilion / Curated Archives"
The 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia /// May 26-31, 2016 /// Casa alle Zattere, Venice.
The Unfolding Pavilion is an expanding exhibition and editorial project which pops up at the major architecture events in previously inaccessible but architecturally significant buildings.
Each theme of the Unfolding Pavilion is inspired by the space it occupies.
In its first edition, the Unfolding Pavilion enters Ignazio Gardella's "Casa alle Zattere" (the only modern masterpiece built on the waterfront of a major Venetian canal), converting one of its apartments in a temporary gallery of works made by the most unique authors of architecture-related "Curated Archives".
The creation of digital atlases - that is, periodically updated collections of images that share one or more common themes - has recently spread in the architecture field, also thanks to the diffusion of image-based platforms such as Tumblr and Facebook. The materials published in these archives can be original or preexisting, left as found or manipulated, scanned from printed supports or reblogged, commented or not... They can be drawings, collages, photographs, animated gifs or short videos, which once gathered, become the interrelated fragments of the editors' architectural thought, taking the form of lists of references published according to meticolously defined protocols.
The editorial logic that stands behind this kind of editorial projects, which we call “Curated Archives”, shows an intriguing affinity with the compositional strategy of Gardella's Casa alle Zattere, which could be interpreted as an 'ante litteram', constructed example of a curated archive.
Starting from the recognition of the recent rise of curated archives as a phenomenon of interest for architectural communication, as well as from an interpretation of the Casa alle Zattere that insists both on the editorial character of its facade and on the spatial complexity of its interiors, the Unfolding Pavilion invited the architects who are actively and successfully working on curated archives to illustrate the core concepts of their editorial projects by means of an original object/installation capable of reacting to both Gardella’s building and the specific space occupied by the pavilion.
"Curated Archives" /// The 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia /// May 26-31, 2016 /// 'Casa alle Zattere', Calle del Zucaro, 402, Venice.
with works by:
Michael Abrahamson (Fuck Yeah Brutalism), Fabio Allessandro Fusco, Fala Atelier, Luca Galofaro (The Imagelist), Andrew Kovacs (Archive of Affinities), Daniel Tudor Munteanu (OfHouses), Cristian Valenzuela Pinto (Deseopolis), Beniamino Servino, Michael Sullivan (AQQ Index), Davide Trabucco (Conformi), Charles Young (Paperholm)
and contributions by:
Bogdan Van Broeck, CI-AA, Fosbury Architecture, Interval Projects, Eero & Deta Koivisto, Andreas Lechner, Bart Lootsma, Matheson Whiteley & Giles Reid, Misfits' Architecture, Monadnock, Office of Adrian Phiffer, OKOLO, Antoine Predock Architect, Weltgebraus, Weyell Berner, WMUD
curated by:
Daniel Tudor Munteanu & Davide Tommaso Ferrando