oddtag's posterous http://oddtag.posterous.com Most recent posts at oddtag's posterous posterous.com Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:44:12 -0700 The funfair of contemporary starchitecture http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-funfair-of-contemporary-starchitecture http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-funfair-of-contemporary-starchitecture [txt] Venice 2008 - www.frieze.com
"International exhibitions are based on an outdated principle which obliges every country to feature its showcase accomplishments," argues Pia;tek - "we have created a perverse antithesis of national promotional activities abroad." And in their dark dystopian scenarios, in which the forces of cultural change inevitably supercede the sluggish mechanisms of architectural production, there is a challenge to Betsky and his cronies; that architects need look not beyond building, but beyond their own navels.
[video] Venice Biennale 2008 - Aaron Betsky [youtube=http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=IrlPCRK57Hs]

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Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:22:50 -0700 Cavernous old shipbuilding complex called the Arsenale (!) http://oddtag.posterous.com/cavernous-old-shipbuilding-complex-called-the http://oddtag.posterous.com/cavernous-old-shipbuilding-complex-called-the [txt] Venice Architecture Biennale - The star system doesn't cast much light, but some national pavilions shine - www.latimes.com
Its biggest gestures - at the start of the exhibition, inside the cavernous old shipbuilding complex called the Arsenale - come from a parade of celebrity architects, including Zaha Hadid, Elizabeth Diller + Ricardo Scofidio and Frank Gehry, nearly all of them playing down to the moment with overscaled, underwhelming work. A separate section on experimental architecture, which Betsky prepared with a young Italian curator, Emiliano Gandolfi, has the opposite problem. It is dense and unwieldy, a thicket of projects containing a handful of stirring moments but no clear theme..
[img] Biennale: sitting in front of the Arsenale - oddtag con flickr.com
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