BRAVOURE, Pavilion of Belgium at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

The execution of a piece of music that combines excellent technical control with unique vigour and personality is described as a BRAVURA performance. Architecture can also been implemented with BRAVURA.

Although SCARCITY would not immediately appear to be an idea that could be linked to bravura, the architecture of necessity follows the cadence of the economy. It is the imperative nature of SCARCITY that acts as the ultimate challenge to the execution of a BRAVURA performance.

If there are hardly any opportunities to create architecture any more, and if SCARCITY is all that remains, is it still possible to find a degree of BRAVURA? This observation is the subject that the BRAVOURE team will be bringing to the Belgian pavilion for the Flemish Community’ s contribution to the fifteenth Biennale Architettura, the theme of which is REPORTING FROM THE FRONT.

Rather than exhibiting their own work, the BRAVOURE team will be illustrating the aforementioned observation from the perspective of thirteen projects from thirteen different architects. Full-size architectural fragments that conjure up BRAVURA out of SCARCITY will be exhibited in the pavilion.

The BRAVOURE team is made up of de architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, with Filip Dujardin acting as an increasingly inseparable contrast, and with doorzon interieurarchitecten completing the triangle.

production Flanders Architecture Institute
commissioner Christoph Grafe on behalf of Flemish Minister for Culture Sven Gatz curator BRAVOURE: architecten de vylder vinck taillieu - doorzon interieurarchitecte n - filip dujardin
with contributions from De Smet Vermeulen architecten, Philippe Vander Maren - Richard Venlet, Wim Goes Architectuur, architecten Els Claessens en Tania Vanden bussche, Eagles of Architecture, Jo Van Den Berghe - architect, BURO II & ARCHI+I, Robbrecht e n Daem architecten i.s.m. Arch & Teco, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Laura Muylder mans + Atelier Starzak Strebicki, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, Stéphane Beel Architects, A rchitectenbureau Bart Dehaene – Sileghem & Partners in collaboration with Ante Timmermans
scenography BRAVOURE
with the support of the Flemish Government

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