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The afterlife of buildings: Poland in Venice
A hypothetical present and future for architecture, described through six buildings realised in Poland over the last few years. With this theme, giant images by Nicolas Grospierre and photomontages by Kobas Laksa, the curators of the Polish pavilion Jaroslaw Trybus and Grzegorz Piatek earned the award for the best national installation at the Venice Biennale that opened on September 13. “Architecture Beyond Building begins right when the building is handed over. In that moment the building is finished, the architecture is what people and time make of it”, explain Trybus and Piatek.
The imaginary scenarios are apocalyptic and highly provocative, thirty years on, once all the books have become digitalised, the Warsaw University Library could become a mega-shopping centre, the colossal Sanctuary of our Lady of Sorrows a great big water park and with the collapse of the property market, the 200-metre-high skyscraper designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill could make way for a giant open-air cemetery. Elena Sommariva
