la Biennale di Venezia 13th International Architecture Exhibition ...

Common Ground
Participants
The selection of participants for this year’s Biennale evolved in response to the Common Ground
theme. We began with a desire to emphasise shared ideas over individual authorship, and realised
that this required us to initiate dialogues rather simply make a selection of individuals. We began
by asking a limited group of architects to develop ideas that might lead to further invitations:
everyone was asked to propose a project along with a dialogue that reacted to the theme and
showed architecture in its context of influence and affinity, history and language, city and culture.
The final list of contributors demonstrates a rich culture of difference rather than a selection of
edited and promoted positions. We want to emphasise the common ground that the profession
shares, notwithstanding the apparent diversity of today’s architectural production. The sharing of
differences is critical to the idea of an architectural culture.
(David Chipperfield)
1. Group:
13178 Moran Street
Ellie Abrons/Adam Fure
Ann Arbor, USA
Meredith Miller
Ann Arbor, USA
Thom Moran
Ann Arbor, USA
Catie Newell
Ann Arbor, USA
Rosalyne Shieh and Troy Schaum
SCHAUM/SHIEH
Ann Arbor and Houston, USA
2. 40, 000 Hours
Architecture Schools
Aalborg Universitet,Berlage Institute, Det
Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi,Ecole Nationale
Supérieure d’Architecture de Toulouse, Ecole
Spéciale d’Architecture Paris Belleville, Escuela
Politécnica Superior – Universidad Ceu San
Pablo, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura –
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid,
Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, Hochschule Bremen
– Fakultät Architektur, Karlsruher Institut für
Technologie Fakultät für Architektur, Norges
Teknisk-Naturviten Skapelige Universitet Oslo,
Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo,
Panepistímio Patrón, Politecnico di Milano Scuola
di Architettura e Società, Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile, Rice University, Technische
Universität München, Tongji University,
Tsinghua University, Unitec Institute of
Technology, Universidade da Coruña,
Universidad do Porto, Universidad Pontificia de
Salamanca, Universidad Tecnologica Equinoccial,
University College Dublin, Università IUAV di
Venezia, Università degli Studi di Camerino,
Università degli Studi di Trento, Università degli
Studi Gabriele d’Annunzio di Chieti- Pescara,
Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore”, University
of California Berkeley, University of Greenwich,
Univerza v Ljubljani
3. AGA KHAN DEVELOPMENT NETWORK
Geneva, Switzerland
4. Francisco Aires Mateus
Manuel Aires Mateus
AIRES MATEUS
Lisbon, Portugal
5. Alejandro Aravena
ELEMENTAL
Santiago, Chile
6. Annette Gigon
Mike Guyer
GIGON/GUYER ARCHITEKTEN
Zurich, Switzerland