ABP projects selected to exhibit at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale
University of Melbourne to be well represented at Venice Architecture Biennale.
Three University of Melbourne projects from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning will help fly the flag for Australia at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, the world’s most important architecture event.
The Australian Institute of Architecture announced late last week the list of 17 teams who will exhibit as part of the Australian Pavilion’s “NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism’ exhibition at the Biennale starting in August.
The three successful projects arising from the University of Melbourne are:
- Symbiotic City (Steve Whitford with James Brearley, BAU Brearley Architects & Urbanists)
- Mould City (Dr Peter Raisbeck, Nicola Dovey, Simon Wollan, Madeleine Beech and Jono Brener, as part of Colony Collective)
- The Fear Free City (A/Prof Justyna Karakiewicz, Prof Tom Kvan with Steve Hatzellis, WSH Architects)
The winning proposals were chosen from a shortlist of 24, selected from 129 proposals submitted to the competition run by the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale Creative Directors, John Gollings and Ivan Rijavec. John Gollings said:
“It was a difficult decision to refine the list as each proposal we received displayed excellence in a range of diverse approaches to imaginative design. We received wonderful, speculative designs and fantastical visions of the future coming from every point of view imaginable, each one displaying solid thinking behind their ideas.”
The 'NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism' exhibition will feature six Australian urban and anti-urban regions as they are 'now' and then represent 17 futuristic urban environments which pose an imagined 'when' in 2050 and beyond. Visit the AIA website for details of all the winning teams and projects – AIA Media Release.
The Venice Architecture Biennale was inaugurated in 1980 and is now held every two years, alternating with the Art Biennale. Thousands of the world’s leading architects and city planners and over 52,000 people visited the Australian Pavilion in 2008.
The 12th Venice Architecture Biennale – confirmed dates:
Vernissage: 26, 27, 28 August 2010
Exhibition: 29 August – 28 November 2010