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Con el sugerente título de Out There: Architecture Beyond Building se ha presentado la XI Mostra Internazionale di Architettura que se celebrará en el marco de la Biennale di Venezia.

El director de la muestra, Aaron Betsky, ha enfatizado durante la rueda de prensa de lanzamiento la idea de que la arquitectura no se agota en la construcción:

Buildings are objects and the act of building leads to such objects, but architecture is something else. It is the way we think and talk about buildings, how we represent them, how we build them. This is architecture. More generally, architecture is a way of representing, shaping and perhaps even offering critical alternatives to the human-made environment. In fact, buildings are not enough. They are the tombs of architecture, the residue of the desire to make another world, a better world, and a world open to possibilities beyond the everyday. In a concrete sense, architecture is that which allows us to be at home in the world.

Me ha encantado el concepto de Arquitectura como un modo de pensar y de hablar acerca de los edificios.

Los estudiantes de Arquitectura no deberían perderse el concurso EveryVille online competition, que forma parte de la muestra. Vean: EveryVille 2008 Theme of the Competition by Aaron Betsky.