Architectural Front: Alejandro Aravena and Kirill Asse

DESCRIPTION

Leading up to the 4th international conference A Long, Happy Life. Building and Thinking the Soviet City: 1956 to Now, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art will host a public talk between architects Alejandro Aravena (Chile) and Kirill Asse (Russia).

The discussion will focus on architectural forms determined by particular social problems and the high demand for contemporary architecture. In his official statement for the upcoming Venice Architecture Biennale, Aravena explains, “There are several battles that need to be won and several frontiers that need to be expanded in order to improve the quality of the built environment and consequently people’s quality of life. This is what we would like people to come and see at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition: success stories worth to be told and exemplary cases worth to be shared where architecture did, is, and will make a difference in winning those battles and expanding those frontiers.” The speakers will also touch upon the aesthetics of postwar Soviet Modernism and the urban housing systems related to it.

 

ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS

Alejandro Aravena is the curator of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice (2016). He is the author of Los Hechos de la Arquitectura (2002), El Lugar de la Arquitectura (2002), and Material de Arquitectura (2002), as well as the monograph Elemental (2002). His architectural firm Elemental received the Silver Lion at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice (2008) for the project of a functional residential development in the Mexican city of Monterrey.

Kirill Asse is an artist and architect, an associate of the Bureau Alexander Brodsky, and a teacher at the Moscow Architecture Institute (MArchI). He co-curated the ArchMoscowexhibitions in 2003 and 2004, as well as curating the exhibitions 500 Years of Palladio in Russia and Simplicity. He was also the architect of the exhibitions Jan Švankmajer’s Kunstkammer (2013) in Garage, Look into the Eyes of the War (2014) at Novy Manegh and Contemporaries of the Future (2015) in Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.

Sponsors

  • Organized by Forum and Technology Show Open Innovations.

HOW TO TAKE PART

Free admission, registration required

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