Building Conversations, Venice Biennale 2021

Joe Osae-Addo - Building conversations

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Joe Osae-Addo is Principal of the architecture practice Constructs, with offices in Accra and Tamale, Ghana, and in Washington DC and Los Angeles, USA.
The firm synergizes architecture, urban planning, landscaping, and building technology into a single unit geared towards bringing modern architecture and building techniques to create ‘inno-native’ design solutions to contemporary African architecture.

Manuel Herz - Building conversations

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Manuel Herz is an architect and professor; his practice for architecture and urban planning Manuel Herz Architects is based in Basel and Cologne.
In ‘Building Conversations’ Herz presents the Tambacounda hospital, stressing the importance of a collaborative design process that actively includes local resources and techniques.

Tarik Oualalou - Building conversations

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Tarik Oualalou is a design principal and founding partner at OUALALOU + CHOI, a practice based in Paris and Casablanca. He has been a visiting architectural critic at several schools, like the MIT School of Architecture and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Malaquais.
In ‘Building Conversations’ Oualalou stresses the importance of focusing on the right questions to create useful buildings, advocating for the creation of a global toolbox for local needs.

Leopold Banchini and Lukas Feireiss - Building conversations

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Leopold Banchini is a Swiss architect and professor. His practice Leopold Banchini Architects - founded in 2016 in Geneva - is a multidisciplinary research team exploring the frontiers of space shaping. In ‘Building Conversations’ he talks with curator, writer and educator Lukas Feireiss about their participation to the Venice Biennale: an homage to editor Lloyd Kahn’s research about self-built practices.

Sinus Lynge - Building conversations

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Sinus Lynge is an architect, urban planner, and one of the two founding partners at EFFEKT, a Denmark-based architecture practice.
In ‘Building Conversations’ Lynge reflects on how at this moment in time we need to think about how we will live together not only as humankind, but also with the ecosystems surrounding us.

Günther Vogt - Building conversations

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Günther Vogt founded Vogt Landscape Architects in 2000; the studio is based in Zurich, London and Berlin and has been realizing projects at diverse scales.
In ‘Building Conversations’ Vogt talks about the evolution and value of landscapes.

Benedetta Tagliabue - Building conversations

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Benedetta Tagliabue is co-founder of the Barcelona-based office Miralles Tagliabue EMBT.
In ‘Building Conversations’ Tagliabue talks about the importance of space and sense of belonging, explaining how soft architecture can help dilute contrast in difficult build environments.

Nicolas Laisné - Building conversations

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Nicolas Laisné founded his office Nicolas Laisné Architectes in 2005. The firm develops urban planning, architecture and interior design projects.
In ‘Building Conversations’ Laisné presents his approach to architecture: the creation of buildings that support new, evolving ways of life.

Nader Tehrani - Building conversations

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Nader Tehrani is an architect and educator; in 2011 he founded NADAAA, a Boston-based practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration.
In ‘Building Conversations’ Tehrani focuses on the critical use of resources, hybrid systems and re-evaluation of private and public space.

Paola Viganò - Building conversations

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Paola Viganò is an architect, urbanist and professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and at the University of Venice (IUAV).
Her research focuses on the study of new forms of urbanization and explores the concept of cities as renewable resources.
In ‘Building Conversations’ she explores fundamental topics such as the horizontal metropolis, making space for everyone and moving towards a porous design.

Fabio Gramazio - Building conversations

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Fabio Gramazio, co-founder of studio Gramazio & Kohler, is an architect with multi-disciplinary interests ranging from computational design and robotic fabrication to material innovation. Current projects include the design of the Empa NEST research platform, a future living and working laboratory for sustainable building construction.
In ‘Building Conversations’ Gramazio presents the importance of research in architecture.

Hashim Sarkis - Building conversations

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Hashim Sarkis is Dean of the School of Architecture & Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Principal of Hashim Sarkis Studios based in Cambridge, USA and Beirut. Sarkis is involved with the Holcim’s Foundation as head of the Holcim Awards jury for Middle East Africa (2011), member of the Global Holcim Awards jury (2018) and as head of the Global Holcim Awards jury in 2021.
Sarkis is the curator of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale; in 'Building Conversations' he talks about how architecture brings different fields, disciplines and perspectives together.

Lina Ghotmeh - Building conversations

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Lina Ghotmeh is the founder of Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture, based in Paris; the architect is regularly invited to speak at conferences, take part in juries and workshops.
In ‘Building Conversations’ she presents Stone Garden, her recently completed tower in Beirut - her hometown - portraying the capacity of architecture to be an active player in building resilience at times of crisis.