Pavilion of Turkey presents ‘Architecture as Measure’ at Venice

Curated by Neyran Turan and coordinated by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the Pavilion of Turkey presents "Architecture as Measure" at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, titled "How Will We Live Together?" which will take place from May 22 to Nov. 21.

Taking Turan's recently published book "Architecture as Measure" as a theoretical preamble, the exhibition positions architecture as a measure that can help assess our place on Earth and our role in relation to those with whom we live together: As architects with the actors of other disciplines and domains of work, and as a species alongside more-than-human others.

Presented through an installation, an online publication, and storytelling, "Architecture as Measure" focuses on the politics and nuances of the seemingly mundane aspects and sites of architectural construction, juxtaposing them with their planetary counterparts through geographies of resource extraction, material supply chains, maintenance and care in Turkey and beyond.

The installation designed by Nemestudio, titled "Four Dioramas," comprises a quartet of rooms. Each diorama stages both a generic site of architecture with banal details and a specific mise-en-scène of an imaginary story taking place in Turkey.

Diorama of Quarry is a marble quarry abandoned after centuries of resource extraction in the old land. Diorama of Logistics is a large warehouse enabling a massive transit during a multi-species migration to a new land. Diorama of Maintenance and Care is a site of repair in the new land, where both the built structures and the endangered more-than-human beings are continually given maintenance and care. Diorama of Formwork is a site of...