![]() ![]() This is the reason why it is of paramount importance to promote the role of design and “the desire for architecture" as explained by the President of the Biennale, Paolo Baratta. Thanks to its donations, Architecture can take an active role towards the civil society making the latter benefit from it. A portico, a precious façade that becomes a fifth, a public space. Therefore, the generosity of the project mentioned in the Manifesto represents the gift that architecture is able to give back to the places where it intervenes through the quality of the space that it is able to creates. The Irish curators refer to “Architecture” not as the built environment but as an instrument capable of elevating and giving value to things. If architects are usually considered as the “creators of space” (spacemaker), the term freespace is the extra component that comes from the design process. Architecture has an active as well as a passive life.” There is an exchange between people and buildings that happens, even if not intended or designed, so buildings themselves find ways of sharing and engaging with people over time, long after the architect has left the scene. “FREESPACE can be a space for opportunity, a democratic space, un-programmed and free for uses not yet conceived. “FREESPACE celebrates architecture’s capacity to find additional and unexpected generosity in each project - even within the most private, defensive, exclusive or commercially restricted conditions.” “FREESPACE describes a generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity at the core of architecture's agenda, focusing on the quality of space itself.” The curators of this edition, entitled Freespace, are the Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, founding partners of the Grafton Architects studio.Īpparently circumscribed to the non-constructed space, the main theme chosen for this Biennale embraces a variety of meanings as it is clarified in its Manifesto. This is the sixteenth appointment for an international exhibition that, since 1980, has entered the circuit of the prestigious cultural events taking place in the fascinating city of Venice. On May 26, the Venice Architecture Biennale was inaugurated. ![]()
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