From Spain to Singapore

A journey through the 10 best Pavilions of the Architecture Biennale 2023
di Marisa Santin

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In the last weeks before the closure of this 18th International Architecture Exhibition, we propose a journey through the 10 National Participations that have struck and convinced us the most.

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SPAIN

The Pavilion shows the architectures that feed the world – from our home kitchens to the large functional areas that feed cities. Organized in five short films, a recipe archive,…

AUSTRIA

The Austrian exhibit has been entrusted to collective AKT & Hermann Czech, who will visualize the relationship between the Biennale and the City of Venice by trying to convert a…

SWITZERLAND

With the Swiss and Venezuelan Pavilions being adjacent, and given how close their respective designers – Swiss Bruno Giacometti and Italian Carlo Scarpa – were, the exhibition by artist Karin…

BELGIUM

How to re-think architecture in a world of finite resources? The Belgian Pavilion responds to this issue by identifying an alternative to the mining paradigm: using organic building materials that…

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Aesthetics and materiality of shapes are inherent features of both art and architecture. Using an installation that adapts to the spaces of the Pavilion, five American artists and designers reflect…

LATVIA

Latvia celebrates its tenth Architecture Biennale participation with a ‘supermarket of ideas’, a democratic space where products of different origins meet on the shelves. Names, ingredients, and source data featured…

CHILE

The Chilean project worked on the endemic species stored in the seed vault in Vicuña to look at the future from the point of view of ‘ecological remedy’ of the…

SINGAPORE

Can we measure the abstract qualities of the place we live in, such as attachment, attraction, connection, inclusiveness, freedom? With the help of analogue values measurement machines that track data…

ESTONIA

With their presence, visitors will involuntarily turn into a nosy neighbourood and, at the same time, into an explorer of architecture. All action takes place within a real apartment. Each…

HOLY SEE

The Benedictine monastery in San Giorgio Island, lying in front of Piazza San Marco across a short stretch of water, is the stage of the Holy See’s Biennale participation. The…
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