September 14th to November 23rd, 2008

The 11th Architecture Biennale is curated by Aaron Betsky and organised by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta and it will take place in Venice (Giardini and Arsenale) from September 14th to November 23rd.
With the inclusion of Frank Gehry and Matthew Ritchie among the 21 Installations at the Arsenale Corderie, and with the addition of 15 new firms to within the section Experimental Architecture (reaching now 55 firms exhibiting) at Padiglione Italia in the Giardini, the list of participants to the 11th International Architecture Exhibition - Out There: Architecture Beyond Building has been completed.
Frank Gehry and Matthew Ritchie are the two new and prestigious presence among the Installations at Corderie dell’Arsenale, large site-specific installations questioning how can we feel “at home” in the world. The Installations will be accompanied by Manifestos focusing on an “architecture beyond building”, while Hall of Fragments by David Rockwell together with Casey Jones + Reed Kroloff will open the Corderie dell’Arsenale.
Another piece of news, the section Experimental Architecture – the survey on experimentation at Padiglione Italia, curated with the collaboration of Emiliano Gandolfi and showing architects from all over the world- is enriched by 15 more firms reaching 55 participants. This recognition will be held together by small monographic exhibition of Masters of the Experiment who based their work on experimental architecture: Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Morphosis, Zaha Hadid and Coop Himmelb(l)au.
On the second floor at Padiglione Italia, Upload City – in collaboration with Saskia van Stein – will present videos from You Tube and similar sources showing experimental architecture produced by (and for) the next generation.
Within Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, the Arsenale Artiglierie will host Uneternal City. Trent’anni da “Roma interrotta”, twelve projectual visions on Rome and its suburbs by Centola Associati, Delogu Associati, Giammetta & Giammetta, Labics, n!studio, Nemesi, t-studio, BIG (Denmark), Clark Stevens-New West Land (Usa), Koning Eizenberg Architecture (Usa), MAD (China), West 8 (The Netherlands).
The Artiglierie will also host the works of the 10 winners and the 40 honourable mentions of online competition for university students Everyville 2008. Community beyond Place, Civic Sense beyond Architecture. The competition is curated by Aaron Betsky with the collaboration of Francesco Delogu. Everyville 2008 is an initiative made possible by the collaboration between the Biennale di Venezia and Gruppo Telecom Italia, which makes available on the www.everyville.labiennale.org website the most innovative technology for the realisation of the contest and for the display of the winning projects. Software powered by newitalianblood.com. In collaboration with domus.