China to Explore ‘Building a Future Countryside’ at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
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The Chinese Pavilion at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale will explore the future of rural development highlighting the country’s focus on “Building a Future Countryside.” The exhibition will present the development of countryside through six episodes:China to Explore ‘Building a Future Countryside’ at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
The Chinese Pavilion at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale will explore the future of rural development highlighting the country’s focus on “Building a Future Countryside.” The exhibition will present the development of countryside through six episodes: poetic dwellings, local production, cultural practices, agricultural tourism, community reconstruction, and future exploration, noted ArchDaily.The main projects that will be featured in the pavilion include “Wood Kiln Bing Ding” by Zhang Lei from AZL Architects; “Xinzhai Coffee Manor” by Hua Li from Trace Architecture Office — TAO; “An Old-new House” by John Lin + Joshua Bolchover of Rural Urban Framework; “Cidi Memo, a Town of Memory” by Liu Yuyang from Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects; “Mountain Dwelling. Waterside Dwelling. Forest Dwelling” by Dong Yugan; and “In Bamboo” by Philip F. Yuan from Archi-Union Architects.Another project “Cloud Village” by Philip F. Yuan from Shanghai Digital Fabrication Engineering Technology Center is displayed in the garden outside the Pavilion, stated ArchDaily.According to Li Xiangning, Curator of the Chinese Pavilion: “The motivation for this exhibition is more than just ‘xiangchou,’ a Chinese term that refers to nostalgia for rural lands. We return to the countryside where Chinese culture originated to recover forgotten values and overlooked possibilities; from there, we will build a future countryside.”Venice Architecture Biennale has its beginning in an architecture exhibition organized in 1975 by curator Vittorio Gregotti titled “A proposito del Mulino Stucky.” Since then, famous architects including Richard Burdett, David Chipperfield, Francesco Dal Co, Alejandro Aravena, and Rem Koolhaas have contributed to make this into one of the most celebrated architecture exhibitions in the world. This year’s edition is titled “FREESPACE” reinstating “a generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity at the core of architecture’s agenda,” as stated in the event’s press release.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more