Venice Architecture Biennale Lithuanian Pavilion 2018, Swamp School, Pippo Ciorra, Exhibition Images, Design
Venice Biennale Lithuanian Pavilion 2018
Architecture Exhibition in Italy – The Swamp School, curated by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, commissioned by Pippo Ciorra
28 Apr 2018
Venice Biennale Pavilion of Lithuania 2018
Venice Biennale Lithuanian Pavilion 2018
16th International Architecture Exhibition ? La Biennale di Venezia
Learning from The Swamp: Lithuania Presents Its First Individual Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of Biennale Architettura 2018
Vilnius, April 2018 – As part of Freespace, the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of Biennale Architettura 2018, Lithuania presents its first individual pavilion titled The Swamp School, curated by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, commissioned by Pippo Ciorra, presented by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and produced by the Architecture Fund.
image courtesy of The Swamp School
In a time marked by existential threats of war and climate change, the pavilion will highlight the vital urgency of human cohabitation with other forms of life.
?The swamp is a very good metaphor for the contemporary condition of both architecture and inhabited space. Today architecture is suspended between nature and artefact, ecology and politics, while space is bouncing back and forth between material and immaterial. Just like the swamp, which is at the same time water and land ? just like Veni...