All articles by Oliver Wainwright – Page 10
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ReviewThe sprawling Venice biennale offers frustrations and rewards
The sprawling labyrinth of the Giardini’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni (formerly Italian pavilion) continues the well-paced tempo of the Arsenale, only shifting slightly from the shock and awe tactic of immersive installations to a greater emphasis on exhibiting built projects, and artists whose work tackles the wider social and political of ...
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ReviewThe 2010 architecture biennale goes 3D for an invigorating exhibition
Entering this year’s Arsenale I was greeted with a surreal vision of the future. Hoards of revering onlookers, 3D glasses strapped to their faces, mouths agape, as images of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa zooming around their EPFL campus on Segway scooters flashed before their eyes.
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ReviewPeople take centre stage at 2010 architecture biennale
“People meet in Architecture” is the rather quaint title of this year’s biannual frenzy of cocktail parties and free bags in Venice, nimbly curated by Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA. Trumpeting architecture’s noble role as a backdrop to the lives that inhabit it – or perhaps a sardonic critique of the ...
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ReviewColumbia Building Intelligence Project Think Tank
A polemic against parametricism lit up Columbia University’s London event.
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ReviewThe New Décor and Ernesto Neto
The Hayward Gallery’s summer show is an uncomfortable journey into the world of interiors.
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ReviewRotterdam’s indigestible exposition
The 4th International Architecture Biennale combines a vast volume of information with curatorial vagueness
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ReviewPhaidon’s new 10x10 prompts a weighty debate
The newest big architecture book aims higher but still fails to overcome the limitations of its format