Programme Salon Suisse 2012 - biennials.ch

Introduction
Welcome to the inaugural Salon Suisse, a
place and a programme of open discourse:
panel discussions, events and conversations
on architecture.
The place is the Salone of the historic
Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi at Campo S. Agnese
in Dorsodoro, a grand but intimate space in
the heart of Venice, and a place to plan to come,
relax, meet, listen and talk or perhaps even
just come across by chance at the end of the day
in that awkward threshold time before supper
– for a cocktail-hour conversation or two.
The programme is designed to both com -
plement and extend the debate on issues arising
from the presentation at the Swiss Pavilion
of Miroslav Šik’s And Now the Ensemble!!!, and
to explore the common or shared ground of
architecture today, questioning its new centres
of gravity, worrying at the thresholds of
its theory and the edges of its practice, and
looking at the knotty problem of architec -
tural representation – just how is architecture
understood more generally
In all, the intention is to get to grips with
architecture, what is it to be an architect,
and to ask what significance does architecture
have in the world today
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