After being postponed for more than a year because of the pandemic, the 17th edition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture is currently underway and will remain up until November 11, 2021. Entitled “How will we live together?” this edition was curated by Hashim Sarkis, a Lebanese architect.
Albania Pavilion: In Our Home by Fiona Mali, Irola Andoni, Malvina Ferra, Rudina Breçani
The Pavilion celebrates neighbourliness – a once unavoidable bond that defines our lives, fulfils our need to belong, and makes a home out of our address.
In Albania, less than 20 years ago, next-door neighbours were often closer than relatives. Today, only one generation later, diving deep in the waters of globalization we too have moved toward an isolated indifference and uncertainty.
Symbolically spotlighting what might lie beyond our apartment walls, the pavilion presents an invitation to cross them and rediscover the gift of this bond.
Three neighbouring apartments, secretly share a space that can only come to life if the neighbours are willing to make the discovery.
Kosovo Pavilion: Containporary by Maksut Vesgishi
The container project is a large open/enclosed item intended to contain various objects. It has an extraordinary form, function, and design. It is located in every municipality. Around the container exists a whole landscape of buildings constructed to be time-specific and offer new possibilities of use, spaces for experimentation, socialization, reflection, activism, hope, and new ideas and purposes. The pavilion offers samples of temporary spaces around the Kosovo territory ‘extracted’ from this container of objects, showing that, with a little good will, these objects can be constantly reproduced in everyday life.
