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Curation and design of the Spanish Pavilion for the XVI Biennale di Venezia 2018

MANIFESTO

becoming names the exhibition proposal for 2018. Situated in the learning environments of Architecture and continuing with the temporary character of the successful Unfinished of the Spanish pavilion of the previous edition, becoming alludes to a vector of the future, with a common origin of training in the School, which extends to other spaces and times of learning in dialogue with other disciplines.

Assuming teaching practices as architectural practices in their own right, becoming shows Spanish architecture through the work of a magnificent pool of architects, - where they female professionals are currently more than the male ones -, which demands rethinking the conditions of learning environments in relation to the new current emergencies, abandoning the predefined schemes of order.

Within these areas of training and research, becoming focuses on the students´ actions, discourses, and productions, leaving aside both the pedagogies that have enabled their development such as the instrumentation and the agents involved.

becoming, through a large amount of critical practice that has abandoned predefined schemes of order, aims to show the complexity of our operational logics, trying to transform them into systems as simple as the choreography of everyday life itself in order to make them accessible to all citizens.

Far from disciplinary autism, without closed categories, specific themes, or excluding fields, becoming wants to be an open-door experience to an unknown atmosphere, where students cook up conflicts, needs and other ways of being in the world.

For this purpose, becoming takes place simultaneously in the physical and virtual pavilion - where all accepted contributions will have a place - in an augmented space-time in continuous transformation.

Built work

Credits

Location Spanish pavilion, Venice, Italy

Year 2018

Built area 700m2

Client Ministry of Development, Directorate-General for Architecture, Housing and Land

Comisaria Atxu Amann

Comisarios adjuntos Andrés Cánovas, María Mallo, Nicolás Maruri, Gonzalo Pardo

Image and virtual pavilion bestiario

Design team gráfica futura + Ioannes Busca + Open this end + Temperaturas Extremas + gon

Exterior intervention Ana Matos, Íñigo Ocamica, Antonio Samaniego, Íñigo Tudanca

Participants Estudiantes de entornos educativos españoles (2012-2018)

Collaborators After Belonging, Victoria Acebo, Carlos Arroyo, Pedro Astigarraga, José Ballesteros, Maite Borjabad, Nerea Calvillo, Iñaki Carnicero, Izaskun Chinchilla, Raquel Congosto, Juan Domingo Santos, Javier Echeverría, Alberto Estévez, Guillermo Fernández Abascal, Jacobo Gª-Germán, Susana García Bujalance, Paula García-Masedo, Andrea González, María José Ferrero Ibargüen, Juan Herreros, Manuel Jiménez, Amparo Lasén, MAIO, Josep Maria Montaner, Nacho Martín, Vicente Monroy, Paula Montoya, Zaida Muxi, Alberto Nanclares_Basurama, n’UNDO, Manuel Ocaña, Manuel Pascual_Zuloark, Ana Peñalba, José Pérez de Lama, Pedro Pitarch, Carlos Quintans, Sampling Contexts (Begoña de Abajo Castrillo, Enrique Espinosa Pérez, Carlos García Fernández, Eva Gil Lopesino, Ángela Juarranz Serrano, Álvaro Martín Fidalgo y Borja Sallago Zambrano), Renata Sentkiewicz, Ter, Eduardo Vivanco, Remedios Zafra

Content management Luis Álvarez, Kiara Firpi, Alba González, David J. Iniesta, Elena M. Millana, Aida Red, Fernando Segovia

Translation Ángela O´Driscoll

Communication and media Paty Núñez Agency

Experts committee Alberto Alarcón, Eva Álvarez, Irma Arribas, Uriel Fogué, Manuel Gausa, Andrés Jaque, María Langarita, José Morales, Enrique Nieto, Guadalupe Piñera, Almudena Ribot, Juana Sánchez

Production Clorofila Digital, Pellisa Ràfols, Nuonled

Sponsorships Sika, Don Apolonio, Pata Negra, La Española, Don Simón, Auara , Kriskadecor, Ecoluciona, Elisa Tomat, Jaulas abiertas, Cosentino, Constructora San José

Photography and video Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)

Published in

La Biennale (2018) SPAIN becoming

AECID PUBLICACIONES (2018) Becoming. Pabellón Español. XVI Muestra Internacional de arquitectura de Venecia

Archdaily (2018) Becoming: Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2018

Plataforma Arquitectura (2018) Becoming: Pabellón de España en la Bienal de Venecia 2018

Dis-up! (2018) El pabellón de España en Venecia invita a reflexionar sobre los fundamentos de la práctica arquitectónica

COAM (2018) PABELLÓN DE ESPAÑA EN VENECIA 2018: “BECOMING» DE ATXU AMANN

Diario Design (2018) Becoming en la Bienal de Venecia, o la no arquitectura

Arquimagazine (2018) Becoming. CUESTIONANDO LOS LÍMITES Y LAS CONDICIONES ASUMIDAS EN LA ARQUITECTURA

Hoy es arte (2018) Crítica y creación en el Pabellón de España en Venecia

DPA-ETSAM (2017) becoming /// Pabellón de España en la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia 2018