Venice Architecture Biennale | 2014
Once every two years, the floating city of Venice becomes a hot spot for art, architecture, design and fine-arts professionals and amateurs of all sorts, who gather in order to experience the Architecture Biennale. Since its establishment in 1980, the Biennale became an important reference in the world of architecture and each edition brings up interesting issues regarding architecture practice, aesthetics, materials, technologies and ways of thinking and building in general.
As opposed to the somehow pessimistic vibe of the main exhibition, which basically says cities are losing their individuality and architecture starts to look uniform and bland, the national pavilions show different and exquisite stories that contradict the idea of uniformity.
Once more, the Biennale confirmed the idea that architects need to be up-to-date at all times and that architecture is a never-ending learning process. The dynamics of social, economical or political context that arguably influences our work as architects seems to be on fast-forward and the speed of absorbing the change and adapting to it is a vital condition in our practice. Apart from all that, we once more observed the importance of being somewhat altruistic and extremely focused when creating a new building, since its presence will usually effect a greater number of people in more ways than we could ever anticipate or control beforehand.
