Volunteering in Venice
If you are interested in assisting in Venice, now is your opportunity. The Australian Institute of Architects is seeking expressions of interest from people wishing to volunteer at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, at the Australian Pavilion for a period of time between 17 August and 28 November 2010.
The Institute will be selecting volunteers to assist in two week minimum blocks for the duration of the Biennale. All volunteers will receive accommodation and daily per-diems in Venice. All candidates will need to make their own way to Venice.
Detailed information about the volunteering role and requirements can be found here. Please send expressions of interest to nowandwhen@raia.com.au by Thursday 8 April 10am AEST.
'People meet in architecture' to be the over-arching theme of the 2010 Venice Biennale
The Directory of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Kazuyo Sejima, has titled the upcoming Biennale 'People meet in architecture'. "The idea is to help people to relate to architecture, help architecture relate to people and help people relate to themselves" explains Kazuyo Sejima.
She added that separate spaces would be allocated for each architect or theme, allowing participants to be their own curators. "In this way, contributors will design their own space and make presentations that consider the experience of the visitor both physically and conceptually. It will be a series of spaces rather than a series of objects," she said.
Also announced were two new projects for this year's event; Architecture Saturdays, and the greater involvement of the Universities.
As part of Architecture Saturdays, a series of conversations, performances and weekly discussions with international architects, critics and personalities will take place every Saturday for the duration of the exhibition. Meetings will be lead by Sejima, as well as every director of former editions of the Biennale - including Vittorio Gregotti, Paolo Poroghesi, Francesco Dal Co, Hans Hollein, Massimiliano Fuksas, Deyan Sudjic, Kurt W. Forster, Richard burdett, and Aaron Besky.
For more information, click here to see official website and media release.
24 Shortlisted teams announced - Being part of the Australian exhibition 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale
Creative Directors Ivan Rijavec and John Gollings called for Expressions for Interest in a national design competition, of which 24 teams have been shortlisted out of the 129 received. These 24 teams are (in no particular order):
- Richard Goodwin, Art/Architecture, TERROIR, Andrew Benjamin, Ingo Kumic, Dan Hill, Sydney 2050: Fraying Ground
- Steve Whitford, University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning + James Brearley BAU Brearley Architects and Urbanists, Adjunct Professor RMIT, Symbiotic City
- Justyna Karakiewicz, Thomas Kvan and Steve Hatzellis, Urban Life Without Fear
- Edmond & Corrigan, A Future Australian City
- Colony, Mould City
- Brit Andresen and Mara Francis, Sedimentary City
- NH Architecture with Andrew Mackenzie, Not all Arrows hit the Target
- John Wardle Architects & Stefano Boscutti, Multiple Cities
- Alanna Howe, Alexander Hespe (ARUP), biomimetic city
- PDJ Architects (Fiona Dunin, Alex Peck, Martina Johnson), -41+41
- Bangarra Dance Theatre, Woodhead, Dr. Doris McIIwain, Ross Honeywill, Greer Honeywill, Love and Movement
- A collaboration between BKK Architects, Village Well, Charter Keck Kramer, Survival vs Resilience
- HASSELL, Professor Mike Young (University of Adelaide) & Holopoint
- Michael Lewarne + Tom Rivard in association with house of Laudanum, Dr Lian Loke & Dr Anne Arquit Neiderberger Food for Thought: e-agora 2059
- ARUP, Cities of Resilience in the wake of Climate Change
- Room 11 + Scott Lloyd and Katrina Stoll, Island Proposition 2100
- Lacoste + Stevenson Architects, Six Degrees Architects, FROST Design
- Harrison and White with Nano Langenheim, Implementing the Rhetoric
- Ben Statkus (Statkus Architecture), Daniel Agdag, Melanie Etchell, William Golding, Anna Nguyen, Joel Ng, How Does it Make You Feel?
- McGauran Giannini Soon (MGS), Bild + Dyskors, Material Thinking
- Billard Leece Partnership, A Tale of Two Cities 2100
- Innovarchi, The Mangrove occupying the Now and WHEN of the waters edge
- Design Research Institute RMIT (CRI) + Minifie Nixon Architects MNA, Cloudnets
- Dr. Beth George, A. Professor Jon Tarry, A. Professor Rene Van Meeuwen, Speciation City
These shortlisted teams have proceeded to Stage 2 of the Design Competition, which enables the teams over 2 months to develop and refine their design, and submit CAD drawings. The Creative Directors will best endeavour to include in the exhibition catalogue all of the designs proposed by those shortlisted teams who successfully complete Stage 2. Further to this, a collection of finalists from this shortlist will be chosen, whose futuristic vision will be rendered in 3D stereo for showing in Venice. These finalists will be announced in March 2010.
The competition was designed to liberate architects from current planning and design constraints and encouraging speculative, futuristic visions, the Designs for Australia's cities 2050+ competition was held to source material for the WHEN part of Australia's exhibition.
Dates and Director announced for the 2010 Biennale!
Dates of the 2010 Venice Architecture Beinnale have now been announced
Vernissage: 26, 27, 28 August 2010
Exhibition: 29 August - 21 November 2010
On November 6th, the Biennale Board appointed Kazuyo Sejima as Director of the Architecture section. Kazuyo Sejima will curate the 12th International Architecture Exhibition. Ms. Sejima is the first female curator of the Biennale's Architecture section.
For more information, click here to see official website and media release.
Creative Director Team Chosen
John Gollings and Ivan Rijavec will head the creative team for the Australian Pavilion at the upcoming 12th Venice International Architecture Biennale.
The team’s two-part ‘NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism’ exhibition will highlight three of Australia’s most interesting urban regions as they are ‘now’, before dramatically representing futuristic urban environments as they may be ‘when’ we reach 2100. Click here for the media release and media backgrounder, explaining the exhibition concept in detail.
The full 2010 Creative Directors Team comprises Australia’s preeminent architectural photographer John Gollings, leading Melbourne-based architect Ivan Rijavec, graphic designer David Pidgeon, astrophysicist Professor Jeffrey Shaw, architect and sound designer Nick Murray and 3D experts Sam Slicer and Daniel Flood.
A total of 29 submissions were received for the role of Creative Director, with five proposals shortlisted in a rigorous selection process ahead of this announcement of the winning team.
The Venice Biennale Committee for 2009/2010
The task of the Venice Biennale Committee is to facilitate the 2010 Australian exhibition at the Architectural Biennale in Venice, with also the view to establishing the longer-term future of Australia’s participation in Venice.
Members of the Venice Biennale Committee are:
- Prof Geoffrey London - Chair
- Howard Tanner
- Prof Annabelle Pegrum
- Rachel Neeson
- Brian Zulaikha
- Karl Fender
- Prof Philip Goad
- Ross Clark
Commissioner for 2010 - Mrs Janet Holmes à Court AC
In a significant boost for Australian architecture, one of the nation’s most successful businesswomen and best-known patron of the arts will become the new face of the Venice Architecture Biennale. Mrs Janet Holmes à Court has been announced as the nation’s new Venice Architecture Biennale Commissioner.
“I am delighted to have been invited to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale as Commissioner. I have been deeply interested in Australia’s built environment for most of my life - rejoicing with our architects where they have been innovative and successful - and weeping with them over the proliferation of buildings inappropriate to our Australian environment and that of the 21st world.
From my travels and reading, I feel confident that Australia has a great wealth of architectural talent. This is often overlooked in the maturing of our society.
Anything I can do to draw attention to the creativity of the best Australian Architects will be a joy and a privilege” said Mrs Holmes à Court.
The high profile role of Commissioner, held very successfully over the past two years by former Sydney Lord Mayor, businesswoman and fellow arts patron Lucy Turnbull, was vital to ensure that Australia’s presence in Venice was supported onshore and internationally. The Institute is delighted that Mrs Janet Holmes à Court has accepted the role of Commissioner and welcomes her on-board.
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