blue crow media’s latest map celebrates modernist and modern day architecture in venice, from the 1930s to right now. produced to coincide with the opening of the 2021 venice architecture biennale, the map capabilities properties by some of the most influential architects of the 20th and 21st century, such as carlo scarpa, tadao ando, santiago calatrava, david chipperfield and much more. ‘modern venice map’ gathers a full of fifty selected buildings, from social housing to biennale pavilions at the giardini and to the recently-intended vatican chapels.giardino delle sculture / sculpture garden (giardini della biennale), carlo scarpa, 1950-52 (also header picture)
all illustrations or photos by alessandra chemollo for blue crow media
‘modern venice map’ by neighborhood architectural historians marco mulazzani, elisa pegorin and photographer alessandra chemollo, highlights the italian city’s astonishing vary of modernist and present-day architecture. the two-sided publication incorporates a map of venice, an introduction, primary images and information of fifty chosen properties, biennale pavilions and vatican chapels. some of the architects highlighted are the venetian carlo scarpa, and other italian and worldwide names these as alvar aalto, tadao ando, santiago calatrava, david chipperfield, norman foster, rem koolhas, renzo piano, aldo rossi, james stirling, map studio and some others.
ponte della constituzion / constitution bridge, santiago calatrava, 1996, 2001-08
the properties involved on the map make it clear that modern-day architecture, significantly from an aberration, is a all-natural continuation of venice’s impressive historical past. ‘the map shows that venice proceeds to specific and cradle worldwide lifestyle via the numerous but complementary languages of its new architecture,’ publish marco mulazzani and elisa pegorin in the introduction.
padiglione del venezuela / venezuela pavilion (giardini della biennale), carlo scarpa, 1953-56
negozio olivetti / olivetti keep, carlo scarpa, 1957-58
ampliamento cimitero san michele / san michele cemetery, david chipperfield, 1998-2007