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This year, the legendary, months-long celebration of global architecture features prominent works by several AAP alums<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Lindsay Lennon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Venice Biennale is one of the most notable events in the worlds of art and architecture\u2014and in 2023, it features the work of several Cornellians. The showcase, which runs from May through November, is turning heads for being what the New York Times <\/em>calls<\/a> \u201cthe most ambitious and pointedly political\u201d Biennale in recent memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the Biennale has encompassed both art and architecture over its 128-year history, since 1980 it has focused on each field in alternating years. The 2023 event\u2014officially the 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture<\/a>\u2014is the first to spotlight the people and culture of Africa, with more than half the exhibition\u2019s 89 participants from that continent or its diaspora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alumni of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning represented at the Biennale include Brooklyn-based artist Olalekan Jeyifous \u201999, BArch \u201901<\/a>, who won its Silver Lion Award for his multimedia installation, ACE\/AAP <\/em>(seen above). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reclaimed wood was used in a \u201cmeeting house\u201d as part of chaord <\/em>by Emmanuel Pratt \u201900, BArch \u201902.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Depicting the bright-green-and-yellow departure lounge of a fictional African transportation system, the exhibit imagines a world where Africa\u2019s ecology has not been damaged by colonialism\u2014and, instead, the continent employs Indigenous techniques to develop advanced, ecofriendly travel methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a work titled chaord<\/em>, designer Emmanuel Pratt \u201900, BArch \u201902\u2014who co-founded the Sweet Water Foundation<\/a>, a practice devoted to regenerative neighborhood development on Chicago\u2019s South Side\u2014created an assortment of objects and mixed-media pieces related to his organization\u2019s mission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, a \u201cmeeting house\u201d comprising reclaimed wood is, the artist says, \u201cdesigned as a lesson plan in urban ecology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another installation, unknown, unknown<\/em>, was a collaboration by three Cornellians: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon \u201995<\/a>; Eric H\u00f6weler \u201994, MArch \u201996<\/a>, an associate professor of architecture at Harvard and Yoon\u2019s cofounder at the design studio H\u00f6weler + Yoon; and Mabel Wilson<\/a>, a Columbia faculty member currently serving as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large on the Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing from archival research, it comprises a remembrance space for the enslaved people who built, operated, and maintained the University of Virginia in the 1800s. According to its creators, the immersive exhibit provides \u201can ephemeral sonic, visual, and haptic memorial\u201d to the violence and dehumanization inflicted on these 4,000 enslaved laborers.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The collaborative work unknown, unknown<\/em> honors and memorializes the thousands of enslaved laborers who built the University of Virginia in the 19th century.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As Ghanaian-Scottish architect and scholar Lesley Lokko, curator of this year\u2019s central Biennale exhibition, said in a statement: \u201cCentral to all the projects is the primacy and potency of one tool: the imagination. It is impossible to build a better world if one cannot first imagine it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: The installation <\/em>ACE\/AAP by Olalekan Jeyifous \u201999, BArch \u201901, depicts the departure lounge of a fictional African transportation system. All images provided. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published June 9, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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