La Biennale di Venezia will inaugurates the 11th International Architecture Exhibition titled “Out There: Architecture Beyond Building” from September 14th through November 23rd 2008.

Directed by Aaron Betsky, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam, this year biennale will be focusing on the aspect of architecture beyond building to address the central issues of our society.

Exhibitors will present their architectural installations which will be the response to Betsky challenge to create the architecture interpretation on emotion to make sense of the world and feel at home in it.

On their press release, Betsky points out “what should be an obvious fact: architecture is not building. Architecture must go beyond buildings because buildings are not enough. They are big and wasteful accumulations of natural resources that are difficult to adapt to the continually changing conditions of modern life”.

The exhibition seeks is to collect and encourage experimentation in architecture that can take the form of momentary constructions, visions of other worlds, or the building blocks of a better world.

Betsky wants to see if architecture, by experimenting in and on the real world, can offer some concrete forms or seductive images.

Source: labiennale.org.

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