Meetings on Architecture

The Meetings on Architecture are back for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. This programme of events on the themes and case studies presented at the Exhibition will take place throughout the whole period of Biennale Architettura 2016, involving the architects and participants of Reporting From the Front curated by Alejandro Aravena.

“If the ultimate goal of the Biennale is to share knowledge and exchange experiences – Aravena explains – we should offer a variety of channels for that to take place. Meeting the authors and listening to their experiences is still one of the most powerful ways to learn from others. Once a month, some of the participants will have a conversation and share with the public their insights, doubts, and the turning points in the projects that they are showing. We have organised them around themes, but architecture by nature always integrates more than one dimension. These Meetings will thus be a way to get from the authors themselves the richness and complexity of the built environment, and what it takes to get things done.”

Programme of the Meetings on Architecture:

May 28, 3pm
Infrastructure
Joan Clos, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster, Andrew Makin, Grupo EPM
Teatro Piccolo Arsenale

June 11, 3pm
Peripheries
Mexico Project, BeL Sozietät für Architektur
Teatro alle Tese

August 27, 3pm
Structures/Materials
Werner Sobek, Solano Benitez, Ochsendorf, DeJong & Block , Simón Vélez
Teatro alle Tese

September 24, 3pm
Scarcity
VAVStudio, Anna Heringer, Francis Keré, Adeyemi Kunlé, Rural Urban Framework
Teatro alle Tese

October 29, 3pm
Environment
Michael Braungart, Batlle i Roig Arquitectes, Hugon Kowalski, Transsolar
Teatro alle Tese

November 26, 3pm
Conflicts
Milinda Pathiraja, Shigeru Ban, Manuel Herz, Eyal, Weizman, Robert Jan van Pelt
Teatro alle Tese

The Meetings on Architecture will happen in conjunction with a number of events linked to the Special Projects of the 15th Exhibition, especially the Project of the London School of Economics and Political Science curated by Ricky Burdett and the Forte Marghera’s Special Project.