CASAPLATFORM @ VENEZIA 2021
FOREWORD
Platform, on the occasion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, organizes an important initiative that merges together the editorial project “Best Design Selection” and the value system expressed by Casa Platform, a brand synonymous with architectural culture, content creation and networking among the various players (companies, professionals, opinion leaders) of the project’s world. From 22 May to 22 August, in a highly prestigious location, the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia in Venice, two thematic exhibitions will take place simultaneously, involving a total of 140 architecture firms. The first, entitled “Best Italian Interior Design Selection”, offers an overview of interior design by Italian architects, with no geographical limitation or type (residential, hospitality, retail, etc.). The second, entitled “Best International Houses”, offers an overview of the world’s living spaces through the selection of 70 projects chosen by Platform’s scientific committee on the basis of applications received from all over the world. The Casa Platform Venezia General Catalogue brings together all the players in this important initiative in a single volume: all the architecture studios involved with their projects in the two exhibitions are presented. The catalogue also includes a description of the exhibition project, entrusted to SET Architects from Rome. The second part of the catalogue is dedicated to the presentation of the companies sponsoring the event, which, in collaboration with Platform, have believed in and made possible this initiative, made all the more ambitious by the complex and uncertain historical moment. Platform would like to thank all those companies and architecture firms who have worked alongside us, for more than a year, to design, build and realise the Casa Platform Venezia project, not giving up on the idea that the Future without Projects can be an Acceptable Way of Life.
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