The Golden Lion for Architecture for the Brazilian Pavilion with the Daar-Corriere.it group

VENICE The Golden Lions of the XVIII. Venice Architecture Biennale were awarded. pavilion Winner Brazil con Terra curated by Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares with an installation attended by numerous exhibitors.

The pavilion connects the public with the tradition of quilombola shelters and traditional ceremonies of the indigenous areas by filling the pavilion with soil.

The Golden Lion for the best participation in the exhibition The laboratory of the futureclean
by Exhibition Director Lesley Lokko went to the Daar Group, which includes Italian architect Alessandro Petti and his wife Sandi Hilalfor his commitment to decolonization, also in Palestine, where he worked for many years. The staging is an indictment of the intervention in Borgo Rizza Carried out in 1940 by the Colonization Authority of the Sicilian Grand Estate: the architects deconstructed the Fascist-era facade of the main building of the village and turned it into seating. I believe that Europe needs to be decolonized today, which is urgent and necessary.

Silver lions for young participants in Olalekan Jeyifous (USA) for an installation warning of the possible transformation of Africa into a giant amusement park.

Special Mentions to Twenty Nine Studio by Sammy Baloji (Congo), to the South Africans by Wolff Architects and to Thandi Loewenson (London) as well as for national participations in Great Britain.

golden lion Alla race to Demas Nwoko (1935) Designer, critic, and set designer, the African Gaud, for his approach to architecture as an extended field of activity that encompasses both the material and immaterial worlds.

It seems to be a gift of fate. 1961 in France – Nwoko recalls – I had designed a caravanserai for a Mozart opera (The kidnapping from the menagerie, ndr) transfer an opera into a three-dimensional context. Then I sang for herOthello. And so I feel honored in Venice today, for which I am grateful to be able to remember this episode.