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Theme: Città. Architettura e società

Curator: Richard Burdett

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Curators: Marcelo Danza and Miguel Fascioli

Assistants: Federico Parra and Felipe Ridao

Advisor curator: - - -

Theme: Out There: Architecture Beyond Building

Curator: Aaron Betsky

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Jury: Salvador Scheloto, Gustavo Scheps, Mario Sagradini and Patricia Bentacur Does not appear in the resolution But Angela Perdomo participates.Advisors: Cristina Bausero, Miguel Fascioli and As. Ac. louis oreggioni

Minister: Emb. Luis Almagro

Director of Culture: Emb. Alberto

Open contest

Jury: Fernando Miranda, Enrique Aguerre, Juan Carlos Apolo, Conrado Pintos, Diego Capandeguy. Advisors: As. Ac. Luis Oreggioni Lucio de Souza (cur. 2010), Marcelo Danza (cur. 2008) and Ricardo Cordero

Jury: Pedro livni and Marcelo Dance. Advisors: As. Ac. louis oreggioni

Jury: Patricia Bentancor, Bernardo Martín and Emilio Nisivoccia

Advisors: As. Ac. Carina Strata

Jury: Sebastián Alonso, Martín Cobas, Marcelo Danza, Alejandro Denes, Ricardo Pascale.Advisors: As. Ac. Carina Strata

Gustavo Scheps Marcelo Danza

Minister: Ricardo Erlich

Director of Culture: Dr. Hugo Achugar

Minister: Emb. Luis Almagro

Director of Culture: Pablo Scheiner

Minister: Maria Julia Muñoz

Director of Culture:Sergio Mautone

Minister: Rodolfo Nin Novoa

Director of Culture: Omar Mesa

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Curators: Emilio Nisivocia, Lucio de Souza, Martin Craciun and Sebastian Alonso

Advisor curator: - - -

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ALDEA FELIZ: episodes of modernization in Uruguay.

Curators:Pedro Livni and Gonzalo Carrasco

Assistants: Federico Lapeyre

Advisor curator: Daniela Freiberg

Guests: Marcelo and Martin Gualano de g+; Horacio flora and Alejandro Baptista de 11:54 pm; Marrio Baez and Adrian Duran de MBAD; Marcelo Bednarik and Federico Mirabal de BM, Diego Perez, Fabio Ayerra, Marcos Castaings, Martin Cobas and Javier Lanza de Fábrica de paisaje; and Matias Carballal, Andres Goba and Mauricio Lopez de MAAM.

Theme: Common Ground

Curators: Emilio Nisivocia, Mary Méndez, Martin Craciun, Jorge Nudelman, Sanitago Medero and Jorge Gambin

Assistants: Laura Nozar, Martín Cajade and Oficina 206u, Súbito, LabMVD, Carolina Gilardi and Mariana Diaz

Advisor curator: Daniela Freiberg

Guest writers: Jorge F. Liernur, Patricio del Real, Lucio de Souza, Lorena Logiuratto, Jorge sierra, Leandro Villalba and Nicolas

16 REBOOT: Two Architecture Lessons

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Curators: Marcelo Danza, Miguel Fascioli, Marcelo Starico, Borja Fermoselle, Diego Cataldo and José de los Santos

Assistants: Mateo Vidal, Facundo Romero and Matteo Locci

Advisor curator: Miguel Fascioli.

Curators: Sergio Aldama, Federico Colom, Diego Morera, Jimena Ríos y Mauricio Wood

Assistants: Bruna Baietto and Sebastián Lambert.

Advisor curator: Alejandro Denes

Curator: Kazuyo Sejima

Curator: David Chipperfield

Theme: Fundamentals

Curator: Rem Koolhaas

Theme: Reporting from the Front

Curator: Alejandro Aravena

Theme: Freespace

Curator: Yvonne Farrell e Shelley McNamara

Note: names underlined, participated in previous instances of the Biennale, or have some curatorial experience at the time of the contest.

Discussion panel

The first architecture commission was made just in the seventh edition of the Architecture Biennale in the year 2000, directed by Massimiliano Fuksas under the name “Less Aesthetics, More Ethics.” It sought to abandon the focus on the built object and turn attention to the contemporary city from work in three thematic axes: The social, the environmental, and the technological. It proposed to search for new “ethical” responses to the accelerated transformation of the cities of the underdeveloped world (Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa were the focus of this call).9

Uruguay sends —sponsored by the Ministry of External Relations, the Municipality of Montevideo with Mariano Arana as mayor, and the embassies of Spain, France, and Italy— a project called “Montevideo: a city for a theater, a theater for a city” to charge of Carlos Pascual and Alvaro Farina, and with Ricardo Pascale as adivsor curator. The project consists of an audiovisual installation of three screens that showed images of Montevideo, its historic center, and the cultural district (comprising the Solís Theater, the Sodre, the AFE station, and the Sarandí-18 de Julio pedestrian axis).10

Mercader in his column in the newspaper El País “Arana reopened the History of the Solís restoration in the Departmental Board, an epic that has already lasted six years and that has consumed 16 million dollars in a sequence of errors, marches, and counter-marches paid for by the taxpayer”. The journalist affirms that the object of the exhibition was to attract those interested in financing the works of Solís. Unfortunately, the interested parties never showed up. 11 Also, it was also not well recognized by the academic field regarding the involvement of —at that time— the School of Architecture in submissions to the Venice Biennale.12

This edition was controversial in many ways, even more so as it was Uruguay’s first participation in the Biennial. Regardless, one aspect is noteworthy: Mariano Arana, an architect and a history professor at the School of Architecture with an extensive background in patrimonial aspects, was in a position of authority, which made possible the start using the pavilion for the Architecture Venice Biennale.

Curators: Carlos Pascual & Alvaro Fariña