Architecture

"The ruins in their singularity are the most living thing in history, since only what has survived its destruction, what has remained in ruins, lives historically," says María Zambrano. Jorge Scrimaglio, Argentine architect, is a builder who appeals to that spirit that Kahn defined in the same sense: “you have to surround buildings with ruins”. And a building that appeals to be a ruin, with walls that are not such, that house emptiness and serve as support to a sense that extends triumphant; as a way of survival, not from what it was, but from what it did not become. Empty as absence. Making concrete a possibility not yet realized, like the life of the ruins that are indefinite and more than any other spectacle awakens in the mind of those who contemplate them the impression of an infinity.

The Board of the Venice Biennale, upon the recommendation of President Roberto Cicutto, appointed Lesley Lokko as Director of the Architecture Sector, with the specific task of curating the 18th International Architecture Exhibition to be held in 2023. The Exhibition will be held from Saturday, May 20 to Sunday, November 26, 2023.

With its new location and wider horizons, Pinta introduces architect and curator Daniel Fischer to its production team.

In 1985, Josefina Ludmer gave a set of classes in the form of a seminar at the University of Buenos Aires. These classes marked a turning point in the way we read literary theory. In dialogue with the book Ways of Seeing by John Berger, Ludmer will raise the question about ways of reading literature. Ricardo Piglia dictates in 1990 a seminar composed of 11 classes that will later be known as the seminar of "The three vanguards"; This will become a point of reference to account - among other problems - for how certain authors build their own tradition by confronting it with others.

Gonzalo Maggi, in his photography, provides entity to a space that, although occupied, emanates a certain feeling of emptiness. By introducing a subject, an individual but metonymic form of existence, he gives architecture a meaning that exceeds its own ontology.

Carlo Scarpa designed the Gipsoteca - plaster museum - for Antonio Canova in Possagno between 1955 and 1957. An expansion of the museum that houses the molds of the great Italian neoclassical sculptor, we keep a copy of his Three Graces in front of the Sarmiento Historical Museum in Buenos Aires.

Fabiana Barreda's work, exhibited at BAphoto 2021 at the OdA Arte stand, amalgamates different cases and concepts within the idea of ​​space and the politics of feminism. With references to the great architectures, and to the female body as habitable and inhabiting, subjectivities are called into question and once again photography plays a catalytic role of simultaneous approach and estrangement.

"Venice, nenuphar city" ... says the poet Paul Morand in his magnificent book Venises, plural. Venice, in addition to being host of the most famous biennials, today on its seventeenth edition in architecture, is in its plurality the land of one of the great masters of 20th century architecture, Carlo Scarpa.

Arte al Día is pleased to present a new editorial section. With a more holistic view of art, the new Architecture section is proposed as a platform for expansion. It will be carried out under the curatorship of the Argentine architect Alejandro Vaca Bononato.

When artists, designers, industry resources, and clients work together, common places are transformed into spectacular spaces. CODAworx, the hub of the commissioned art economy, has announced the winners of the ninth annual international CODAawards: Collaboration of Design + Art. The CODAawards recognize collaborations that result in outstanding projects which successfully integrate commissioned art into interior, architectural, or public spaces.

Con-nect-ed-ness: The Danish Pavilion at the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale focuses on people’s connection with each other and with nature, in a total installation consisting of a giant cyclic system of water collected locally in Venice.

To the question proposed by Hashim Sarkis (curator of the 17^th International Architecture Exhibition) How will we live together?, the United States project team alludes to the democratic nature of wood framing.