MAA and MaCT Venice Research Trip

MAA and MaCT Students and Coordinators are just back from their research trip to Venice, in occasion of the International Architecture Exhibition, Reporting from the Front, curated by Alejandro Aravena.

MAA and MaCT Venice Research Trip

The aim of the 15th Venice Biennale was to give voice to those who acquired another perspective in architecture, and to widen the range of issues to which architecture is expected to respond in the present and in the future. The project selected for Reporting from the front faces issues like segregation, inequalities, peripheries, access to sanitation, natural disasters, housing shortage, migration, informality, crime, traffic, waste, pollution and participation of communities.

The Exhibition included the 62 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic city centre of Venice. Five countries have participated for the first time: Philippines, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Seychelles and Yemen.

During the trip, the students could also visit the exhibition celebrating Zaha Hadid’s career in architecture and design, at the Fondazione Berengo.

The Foundation is hosting an abridged retrospective exhibition of Hadid’s work at the 16th century Palazzo Franchetti, main location of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy. The students had the possibility to see the evolution of Hadid’s research through many of the seminal paintings, drawings and models of her repertoire.

MAA and MaCT Venice Research Trip

The students enrolled in the MAA could lately visit the furnace and the Museum of Berengo, in Murano. Berengo Studio is a cutting edge company realizing artworks in Murano glass and collaborating with artists such as Jaume Plensa, Mimmo Palladino, etc.

On the closing night of the trip a costume party has been organized in Campo Santa Margherita.

MAA and MaCT Venice Research Trip