Neyran Turan's Venice Biennale Exhibition Featured in the News
UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Architecture Neyran Turan's "Architecture as Measure" has been featured in Metropolis Magazine, Daily Sabah, TRTWorld and more, for its exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Metropolis Magazine names Neyran's "Architecture as Measure" as one of "4 standout national pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale". In the article, Neyran explains how the four 1:1 scale dioramas narrate "a story of multi-species solidarity looking at a future time in Anatolia, Turkey," where, after years of resource extraction, "that 'extractivist' era has ended."
Read Metropolis's article here!
The Daily Sabah describes the exhibition's use of architecture as a tool to reimagine the environment in Turkey's architectural exhibit examines climate at Venice Biennale.
From the article:
The exhibition, named after its curator Neyran Turan's book "Architecture as Measure," published in English in March 2020, serves as the basis of architectural contracts, zoning laws, technical standards, specifications and mineral extraction. It underlines that supply chains, construction installations, labor, maintenance or inspection practices not only leave deep marks on the physical practice of architecture but also reflect our values and assumptions about what “environment” means to architecture.
Read Daily Sabah's article here!
TRTWorld's Pavilion of Turkey at Venice Biennial ponders 'How will we live together?' focuses on the exhibition's connection with public and private sectors and civil society. Neyran explains, "Our project aims to rethink architecture's relation to the world, in which it is more of an agent than a mere respondent. In that sense, we hope that our project, which we see as a series of platforms that can provide different encounters, will lead to the kind of dialogues we aspire to and enable other discussions in the future.”
Read the TRTWorld article here!
e-flux features a virtual curator's tour of Neyran's exhibition. In addition to a description of each of the Four Dioramas (i.e. Diorama of Quarry, Diorama of Logistics, Diorama of Maintenance and Care, Diorama of Formwork), the video allows watchers to explore these four dioramas as if they are in the interior space of an architectural model.
Check out e-flux's article and video here!
FTN news describes the exhibiton as positioning "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 disiplines and domains of work, and as a species alongside more-than-human others." The article also includes quotes of many of those involved in the formation of the exhibition.
From the article:
Curator Neyran Turan said: "When we started working on the project in 2019, we were not aware of the process in front of us because of the pandemic. The extension of the project over such a long period of time gave us a chance to reflect on the premise of the project and its relevance. We are happy to be able to share our project with the visitors and our wider audience today. Our project aims to rethink architecture’s relation to the world, in which it is more of an agent than a mere respondent. The pandemic has drastically changed the way we relate to our environment and one another and made more apparent and visible the problems that were already there before. In that sense, we hope that our project, which we see as a series of platforms that can provide different encounters, will lead to the kind of dialogues we aspire to and enable other discussions in the future.”
Check out the FTN article here!
ArchDaily's article, The Turkish Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale Explores Climate Change through a Renewed Architectural Imagination, in addition to multiple images of the exhibition, offers insight on the exhibition's relation to the theme of 'how will we live together?' directly from the curatorial team.
From the article:
"Why the emphasis on imagination at this moment when urgent action is already overdue? It is precisely because of the exigency of our current moment that we are driven to the significance of imagination. First, imagination matters because, as evidenced with the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests throughout the world, the intricacies of systemic injustice and climate emergency call for unconventional approaches that can make sense of the collision between the quotidian and the planetary—the vast geo-temporal scales through which climate emergency accelerates." - Curatorial Team
Check out ArchDaily's article here!
Neyran Turn's "Architecture as Measure" will be on display at Turkey's Sale d'Armi, Arsenale from May 22nd to November 21st, 2021!