Common Pavilions. Diener & Diener Architects with Gabriele Basilico. The National Pavilions in the Giardini of the Venice Biennale in Essays and Photographs
- Publisher
- Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN
- 9783858817341
- Specifications
- hardcover
288 pages
photographs of the national pavilions in the Giardini, the Biennale's permanent exhibition gardens in Venice, shot in 2012
texts by 27 international authors, each in the language of the country whose pavilion is discussed, with English translation
Edited by Diener & Diener Architects
Graphic design by Robert & Durrer, Zurich
English (with texts also in each pavilion country's own language)
published for the Swiss Pavilion at the XIII Venice Architecture Biennale, 2012
Commissioned by the Swiss architects Diener & Diener for their own pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, this book gathers Basilico's photographs of the historic national pavilions scattered through the Giardini, the permanent home of the Biennale since the nineteenth century. Rather than a straightforward architectural survey, the project became, in Diener & Diener's words, an artist's book: each pavilion's photograph is paired with a text by a writer from that country, printed in the original language alongside an English translation, turning a walk through the gardens into a set of parallel national perspectives on a shared architectural condition.