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Navine g. Dossos, Vessel, The Only Flowering Plant in the Ocean

The Biennale Architettura 2025 aims to be more than an Exhibition; it is an experiment in uniting different voices and forms of intelligence. Some will resonate louder than others; some might clash and produce jarring sounds. Nonetheless, we hope that this choral effort will offer new insights into one of the defining challenges of our time: adapting to an altered world.”

With this final paragraph at his introductory text Carlo Ratti, the curator of the 19th Biennale of Architecture, highlights the goals and his aspirations of this years’ ambitious exhibition under the title Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. The 19th International Architecture Exhibition will be held from Saturday 10 May to Sunday 23 November 2025

While having its main focus on architecture and its roots- human need for shelter and survival, driven by optimism – Ratti acknowledges that in today’s world threatened by climate crisis, architecture alone can no longer provide adequate solutions. Moreover the time has come for architecture to go beyond today’s limited focus on AI and digital technologies and embrace adaptation inviting different types of intelligence -natural, artificial, collective- to work together to rethink the built environment.

Vessel is a collective studio based on the island of Aegina, Greece. It was founded by artists Navine G. Dossos and James Bridle. It’s members work collectively on public projects.

Vessel was invited by Carlo Ratti’s team of curators to work on a project linked to their community and bio-region on Aegina. James Bridle’s book Ways of Being – Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence has many interwoven themes with this year’s Biennale.

Navine g. Dossos talked to Ex_posure about Vessel and their fascinating project for Venice Biennale of Architecture: The Only Flowering Plant in the Ocean.

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Santiago Calatrava, “Beyond Hellas”

The renowned architect, engineer and artist Santiago Calatrava presents for the first time an exhibition dedicated to his body of sculptures and paintings inspired by Greek Antiquity.

The exhibition takes place in Glyptothek, Munich and is titled “Beyond Hellas”.

The show focuses on Calatrava’s new sculptural series titled “The Aegineten”, which was developed over the last two decades. The collection features 14 wrought iron large format sculptures on a base of aged oak, which appear as modern variations of the ancient warriors of the Temple of Aphaia, in Aegina. The works are inspired by Calatrava’s first encounter with the marble works from the Late Archaic temple, which features scenes of the Trojan Wars.

The Temple of Aphaia was stripped of his sculptures during the period of Ottoman rule by C.R. Cockerell,  an antiquarian traveling in Greece in 1811-12 and his friends.

The temple’s sculptures remain in Munich today, at Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek.

Along with these sculptures the exhibition features a selection of 30 drawings, watercolors, and preparatory studies, in addition to sculptures from past series, which highlight Calatrava’s study of the human body and nature, a continuous inspiration to his architectural style. All works connect simultaneously with the general theme of Antiquity, which is intrinsic to Greek culture.

The exhibition is curated by Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz, and Florian Knauss.

On the occation of the exibition “Beyond Hellas”, Santiago Calatrava talked to Eleni Zymaraki Tzortzi. Continue reading …

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ΤΟ ΣΠΙΤΙ ΤΟΥ ΡΟΔΑΚΗ ΑΝΑΠΝΕΕΙ ΞΑΝΑ

Εδώ και κάποια χρόνια διαβάζω και ακούω για το σπίτι του Ροδάκη στην Αίγινα. Υπάρχουν πολλές ιστορίες που ακολουθούν το σπίτι αυτό και που αποτυπώνονται περίτεχνα στο βιβλιαράκι «Το σπίτι του Ροδάκη στην Αίγινα» των Klaus Vrieslander και Τζούλιο Καΐμη.

Απτές και αδιάσειστες αποδείξεις όμως για όσα έχουν γραφτεί και περίτεχνα πλεχτεί γύρω από αυτό και τον δημιουργό του, τον Αλέξανδρο Ροδάκη, δεν υπάρχουν.

Όταν λοιπόν έμαθα για τον νέο ιδιοκτήτη του σπιτιού, τον αρχιτέκτονα Διονύση Σοτοβίκη, επικοινώνησα μαζί του με την ελπίδα πως ίσως θα μπορούσα να επισκεφθώ το σπίτι και να συζητήσω μαζί του ώστε να καταλάβω τι ήταν αυτό που αρχικά τον κινητοποίησε να διασώσει και στη συνέχεια να αγοράσει το σπίτι του Ροδάκη και να αφιερωθεί στην αναβίωσή του.

Η ανταπόκρισή του στο αίτημά μου ήταν άμεση! Continue reading …