Architecture biennale Rotterdam 2014
The sixth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE– calls for best practices from all over the world to support and substantiate the Biennale’s main exhibition’s narrative as conceived by IABR–2014’s curator, landscape architect Dirk Sijmons.
Prospective participants who have designed or are designing concrete projects that deal with the relationship between man, nature, and city, are invited to respond to the IABR–2014–Call for Projects–, and submit their applications by 9 June 2013.
URBAN BY NATURE–
IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE– claims that we can only resolve the world’s environmental problems if we resolve the problems of the city. Looking through the lens of landscape architecture, IABR–2014– redefines the way we deal with urban challenges by analyzing the relationship between urban society and nature, and between city and landscape. This edition of the biennale argues that, perhaps now more than ever, the city is an integral part of one huge urban landscape, a complex system that has become our natural environment. This point of departure has many implications for the way we plan and design this urban environment. Perceiving it as an organism opens up possibilities to develop spatial interventions that make use of its metabolism. With the use of new strategies that effectively address the city as the bigger urban landscape that it is, we can make the city more resilient and thus truly contribute to a more sustainable future world.
The sixth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam opens in May 2014 in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and will be designed by EventArchitectuur.
CALL FOR PROJECTS–
The Call for Projects identifies six specific challenges to which architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and other professionals are invited to respond by submitting concrete design projects preferably developed in productive collaboration with local, regional, and national stakeholders (such as municipalities, governments, NGOs, private companies, universities, communities).
After a careful selection of best practices from around the world, the final result of the Call for Projects will act as the frame of reference for the main projects initiated and self-produced by IABR–2014–, which will be at the core of the main exhibition in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam.
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