The 15th International Architecture Exhibition, chaired this year by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, is on view at the Venice Biennale through 27 November. this year by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena. He’s chosen a focus on learning through architecture suggesting that we’re able to escape the status quo via intelligence or intuition or both.

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On the occasion of his nomination, Alejandro Aravena declared: “There are several battles that need to be won and several frontiers that need to be expanded in order to improve the quality of the built environment and consequently people’s quality of life. This is what we would like people to come and see at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition: success stories worth to be told and exemplary cases worth to be shared where architecture did, is and will make a difference in those battles and frontiers”.

Tadao Ando, Peter Zumthor, David Chipperfield and SANAA are among the star-studded list of contributors to the curated Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. Other celebrated architects of the 88 participants’ choice include Herzog & de Meuron, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Norman Foster and Renzo Piano alongside younger offices like Turner Prize-winner Assemble and Chilean studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen.

The show also offers an overview and retrospect of 35 years of Ms. Hadid’s career, from unrealized early projects — including a 1985 plan to transform Trafalgar Square in London — to works in progress, such as a port headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium, that is to open in September and a residential building on the High Line in New York that is due to be finished early next year.

Entitled Reporting From The Front, the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 is intended to present views and stories of a new perspective on global issues including crime, sanitation, housing shortage, traffic, waste, migration and pollution. Also a Special Projects section is part of the programme: One of the most ambitious outreaches in this sphere is a La Biennale cooperation with the United Nations Habitat III world conference (to be held in Quito/ Ecuador in October 2016) and the Urban Age programme presenting a pavilion dedicated to the themes of urbanisation – “Report from Cities: Conflicts of an Urban Age” – with particular attention to the relationship between public spaces and private spaces, curated by Ricky Burdett.

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