Review: The Chicago Architecture Biennial
| Autor: | Michelangelo Sabatino |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 78:129-131 |
| ISSN: | 2150-5926 0037-9808 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/jsah.2019.78.1.129 |
| Popis: | The Chicago Architecture Biennial New architecture and design biennials are proliferating at a rapid pace throughout the world. They seem to be fulfilling needs that are driven by the role of global tourism in urban economies and by a desire among educators, professionals, and general audiences for more inclusive and public discussions about the built environment. The most successful biennials are the ones that connect people who have innovative ideas with those who have the resources to implement them. I write as an architectural educator and historian (and occasional critic) who trained in Venice (where the world's first architectural biennial was officially launched in 1980 under the directorship of Italian architect and historian Paolo Portoghesi) and moved to Chicago shortly before the city launched itself into the biennial circuit with its inaugural edition in 2015–16. Thus, I am no stranger to the power of biennials to stimulate, exhaust, and occasionally frustrate body and mind with installations and catalogues that promise diligent visitors illumination concerning the complexities of contemporary architecture and urban culture. In recent years biennials have done what a handful of architecture centers in North America (Canadian Centre for Architecture) and Europe (Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Netherlands Architecture Institute) started decades earlier by catering to ordinary citizens in addition to educators, professionals, and students. Like diviners who find water where none appears on the surface, the best curators identify and train our focus on important issues that we have been too distracted to notice or have lacked the knowledge and critical distance to understand without guidance. In Chicago, with its remarkable history of groundbreaking architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, civic and cultural leaders made the wise and strategic decision to embark on an … |
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