{"id":1800,"date":"2010-09-22T15:37:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T15:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2010-09-22T15:37:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T15:37:46","slug":"frankenstein-ruskin-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein &#038; Ruskin @ Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The British Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture  Exhibition in Venice, commissioned by Vicky Richardson, Director of  Architecture, Design, Fashion at the British Council and opens to the  public on Sunday 29 August 2010.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nThe Pavilion is ironically named <em>Villa Frankenstein<\/em>, making  direct reference to the ideas of the British Victorian social critic and  historian of Venetian architecture John Ruskin. It has been conceived  by architects muf as a stage for an exchange of ideas between Venice and  the UK. The centrepiece of the Pavilion, represented as a \u2018Stadium of  Close Looking\u2019, will be a 1\/10 scale model of a section of the Olympic  Stadium for London 2012, reinterpreted by muf with Atelier One  engineers, and built by Venetian carpenters Spazio Legno. This hybrid  structure will act as a platform for drawing, discussion and scientific  enquiry. Following its use at the Pavilion, it will be reconstructed on  another site in Venice as a lasting legacy of the project.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Made in Venice\u2019 theme is continued through a series of separate  installations in the Pavilion including a 15 square metre ecologically  functioning slice of salt marsh showing a close-up view of the native  floral and fauna of the Venice Lagoon. Other exhibits include a new  project by Wolfgang Scheppe drawing on both Ruskin\u2019s original notebooks  and a series of historical photographs of Venice taken by local  residents, Alvio and Gabriella Gavagnin. Seven of Ruskin\u2019s Venetian  Notebooks (1849-50) are being lent by the Ruskin Foundation from the  Ruskin Library at Lancaster University, and there will be inter-active  electronic access to his research in Venice.<\/p>\n<p>Debates, workshops, drawing classes and scientific discussions will take  place during the three months of the Biennale, which will lead to a  catalogue, edited by Adrian Dannatt, to be published in three chapters  across the period of the Biennale, acting as a further creative platform  to inform thinking for London as it moves towards 2012.<\/p>\n<p>British Council Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.britishcouncil.org\/2010\/08\/villa-frankenstein-comes-to-the-venice-architecture-biennale\/\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Venice Biennale: <a href=\"http:\/\/venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org\/timeline\/2010\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, commissioned by Vicky Richardson, Director of Architecture, Design, Fashion at the British Council and opens to the public on Sunday 29 August 2010. 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