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Just came back from my second trip to the 14th Venice Biennale. This time I went only to Giardini. And I should say I liked it much more than Arsenale that I visited some months earlier. Though my not very much positive feedback regarding Monditalia in Arsenale posted in June was perhaps given by the burning Italian summer sun…
Back to Giardini. I just loved it! I loved the simplicity, the clarity, the architecture (and not architects!).
One thing there I appreciated in particular: the fireplace hall. At the center of the room one encounters nothing else but a total-back-to-the-origin thing. “280,000 years ago…” says the display “fireplace was just a ground”. So simple!
Just came back from my second trip to the 14th Venice Biennale. This time I went only to Giardini. And I should say I liked it much more than Arsenale that I visited some months earlier. Though my not very much positive feedback regarding Monditalia in Arsenale posted in June was perhaps given by the burning Italian summer sun…
Back to Giardini. I just loved it! I loved the simplicity, the clarity, the architecture (and not architects!).
One thing there I appreciated in particular: the fireplace hall. At the center of the room one encounters nothing else but a total-back-to-the-origin thing. “280,000 years ago…” says the display “fireplace was just a ground”. So simple!
Yes, it was simple. And what did happen after? A nice diagram behind the central ground pit shows what happed. Fireplace split into apparently independent “fire” and place”. “Fire” was divided later into “cooking“ and “heating”… And each of these categories had its further multifaceted evolution.
The result: today we have nothing else but a complex and stereotype-based understanding of what architecture is and how it should look like. This does not regard only fireplaces of course. It concerns everything. Unfortunately.
Yet, I believe there are many architects and designers out there who try to avoid labeled solutions and who design to meet the real need of their customers. Unfortunately, as I recently figured out, clients often cannot realize the whole opportunity that they have when they address to architects their design problems…
The result: today we have nothing else but a complex and stereotype-based understanding of what architecture is and how it should look like. This does not regard only fireplaces of course. It concerns everything. Unfortunately.
Yet, I believe there are many architects and designers out there who try to avoid labeled solutions and who design to meet the real need of their customers. Unfortunately, as I recently figured out, clients often cannot realize the whole opportunity that they have when they address to architects their design problems…
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