 Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare by Cartier-Bresson | Monday 17 November: Arrive in Venice, meet after dinner in Campo Santa Margerita. Tuesday 18 November: Architecture Biennale. There are several pertinent exhibitions dealing with temporality, occupation, immateriality and housing: The British pavilion is showing contemporary architects working in housing in the UK and abroad and raises differences in social and economic settings. The Italian pavilion contains an exhibition called "Housing Italy: 12 projects for inhabiting and re-inhabiting the city" showing future projects, and an overview of the current situation and the legacy of Italian public housing. The Venice pavilion is exhibiting "Carlo Scarpa and the origin of things". The Polish pavilion show "The Afterlife of Buildings" questions the future use, durability and adaptability of buildings. The Irish exhibition called "the Lives of Spaces" focuses on visual narrative revealed in film and photography, and is housed in Palazzo Giustinian Lolin on the Grand Canal. |
Wednesday 19 November:
Morning - Foundation Querini Stampalia, Santa Maria Formosa, Castello.
Afternoon - Il Redentore by Palladio, housing by Zucchi Architetti, Giudecca
plan of Querini Stampalia Foundation by Carlo ScarpaThursday 20 November: The Campi of Venice drawn survey
study of campi in two parts (work in groups):
1. Orthogonal drawings based on physical survey - plan, elevation and section. include material and detail observations.
2. Time-based study of occupation and use - this could be film-based, photographic, drawn, mapped or otherwise surveyed. you may need to combine different types of survey (activity and sunlight for instance).
Use the observations in Interaction with Architectural Space: the Campi of Venice to inform and guide your own work.
On our return to London you will give a 15 minute presentation, in your survey groups, about the text and your own surveyed observations.
| 1. Campo de Ghetto Novo 2. Campo de la Madonna de l'Orto 3. Campo de l'Abbazia and Campo de la Misericordia 4. Campo San Giacomo da l'Orio 5. Campo San Polo | 6. Campo Santa Margherita 8. Campo San Trovaso 9. Campo Santo Stefano 10. Rialto |
Friday 21 November: Site Survey
Saturday 22 November: Finish surveys and return to London
‘For an antidote to ... dehumanized places where man shows himself an unfit inhabitant of the earth, we could turn to archetypally humanized spaces like the canals and squares of Venice where even the land is built. Always cognizant of the limitations placed on them by the surrounding water, the builders of this city have contrived an integration of all its parts which gives it the deep consistency of a landscape’.
Robert Harbison,Thirteen Ways, MIT, 1997
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