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The overarching theme of this year's Venice Biennale is the question "How will we live together?" Chief curator Hashim Sarkis, who is dean at MIT in Cambridge, invited an unprecedented number of young budding architects to participate. A significant majority of this year's participants exhibited in Venice for the very first time. Thus, the Biennale was not about old architects, but the search for answers to the basic questions of coexistence on a planet plagued by political storms, inequality and climate change. However, it cannot be said that the big names of important world architects have completely disappeared. The Stirling Book Pavilion hosts a retrospective exhibition of Rafael Moneo, who won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Every year the Biennale is divided into two main parts in the Arsenale and the Giardini, which would take even the most inquisitive visitor two days at most, but our stay in Venice was three days, so it was not possible for the students to spend all the time closed in the exhibition halls, but on the last day they could use it to soak up the unique atmosphere of the city or go to one of the nearby islands.
Thanks to the forty-page guide that each excursion participant received when boarding the bus, he had dozens of reports from his classmates at his disposal, where he learned about interesting buildings, exhibitions and adapt your individual program to it. The possibility of a direct comparison with world events (at the biennale) and a direct confrontation with architectural works (in the city) is the best learning aid, which is why we believe that we will go to Venice again in two years at the latest.
Report from the excursion to Venice 2021
The traditional FA BUT excursion to the Venice Biennale had to be postponed for a year for well-known reasons. The opportunity to make it to the end of the architecture biennale and enjoy the midsummer in Venice sounded tempting. Therefore, the capacity of the school bus was filled in the first week of the winter semester, and we waited impatiently to see if the worsening pandemic situation would again spoil our last excursion. Finally, on Tuesday, November 9, a direct night line to Italy left from the faculty. For the final kilometers, we transferred to the train to the Santa Lucia stop, so that, like the heroes of Fellini's film The Sweet Life, we were already amazed by the Grand Canal from the entrance lobby. Anyone who only takes away from Venice wandering through the narrow streets between hundreds of canals is missing out on the greatest charm of the city on the lagoon, which is a ride along the main canal, where the most luxurious palaces hiding the most valuable museum collections are located. Because the boat ride is not one of the cheapest attractions, someone could refuse this experience, that's why we decided to stay in a hostel on Giudecca, which cannot be reached other than by boat, and all the participants of the tour had to buy a three-day ticket (which is available in advance for significantly cheaper) and start using shipping as a regular HMD.The overarching theme of this year's Venice Biennale is the question "How will we live together?" Chief curator Hashim Sarkis, who is dean at MIT in Cambridge, invited an unprecedented number of young budding architects to participate. A significant majority of this year's participants exhibited in Venice for the very first time. Thus, the Biennale was not about old architects, but the search for answers to the basic questions of coexistence on a planet plagued by political storms, inequality and climate change. However, it cannot be said that the big names of important world architects have completely disappeared. The Stirling Book Pavilion hosts a retrospective exhibition of Rafael Moneo, who won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Every year the Biennale is divided into two main parts in the Arsenale and the Giardini, which would take even the most inquisitive visitor two days at most, but our stay in Venice was three days, so it was not possible for the students to spend all the time closed in the exhibition halls, but on the last day they could use it to soak up the unique atmosphere of the city or go to one of the nearby islands.
Thanks to the forty-page guide that each excursion participant received when boarding the bus, he had dozens of reports from his classmates at his disposal, where he learned about interesting buildings, exhibitions and adapt your individual program to it. The possibility of a direct comparison with world events (at the biennale) and a direct confrontation with architectural works (in the city) is the best learning aid, which is why we believe that we will go to Venice again in two years at the latest.
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