15th Venice Architecture Biennale Opens with Focus on Concrete Solutions

The 15th International Architecture Exhibition, curated by Alejandro Aravena and titled Reporting from the Front, opened to professionals at the Giardini. The Biennale addresses urgent issues such as sustainability, inequality, pollution, migration, and the center-periphery dialectic, calling for concrete architectural responses. National pavilions align with this problem-solving approach: Germany removed bricks from its pavilion to symbolize openness, France highlights lesser-known but effective projects, Japan focuses on improving living conditions through architecture, Britain provides verifiable solutions for contemporary housing, the Nordic countries present a pyramid of needs, the US showcases Detroit as a case study with twelve architectural projects, and Russia looks to history as a starting point. The exhibition runs through November 27, 2016.