A Glass Labyrinth in Venice (2018. 80 S. m. 40 Farb- u. 10 SW-Abb. 27 cm)

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Over the past several years, Dhaka-based architect Kashef Chowdhury has become widely known for a body of work that responds with great sensitivity to places, local circumstances, and the demands of a building’s users. At the 2016 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Chowdhury presented four recent projects that his firm URBANA has realized in Bangladesh in a fascinating exhibition.


For that installation, Chowdhury deployed a labyrinth—but he challenged spatial perceptions through a simple trick: the labyrinth, which is designed to hide and block, was instead suddenly made transparent. The installation was conceived not merely as a hyper-maze but rather as an expression of the anxiety that the artist experiences in his work due to a myriad of uncertainties. Chowdhury’s Glass Labyrinth in Venice serves as a reminder that, while an architect may have a clear vision of what he wants to do, the path to success in a challenging environment can be complicated by previously unseen barriers. This book explores and documents the installation through beautiful photographs by Eric Chenal and an illuminating text by Robert McCarter.
 

§06§Warnhinweis: Sicherheitshinweis entsprechend Art,9 Abs,7 S,2 der GPSR entbehrlich§§Eine Ausstellungsinstallation von Kashef Chowdhury, dem Gewinner des Aga Khan Architecture Award 2016 §15§§Kashef Chowdhury hat sich mit seinem Büro URBANA in den letzten Jahren weit über Südasien hinaus einen hervorragenden Ruf als Architekt erworben, der äusserst sensibel auf Orte, Gegebenheiten und Bedürfnisse der Nutzer reagiert. Im Rahmen der Architekturausstellung 2016 der Biennale Venedig hat Chowdhury vier Projekte von URBANA in Bangladesh in einer faszinierenden Installation präsentiert, die dieses neue Buch dokumentiert.§ §Labyrinthe haben Menschen - und insbesondere Architekten - seit jeher fasziniert als Räume der Überraschung, der Entdeckung und des Zufalls. Chowdhurys venezianische Ausstellungsinstallation stellt die Raumwahrnehmung des Labyrinths, das naturgemäss verbirgt und versperrt, durch einen simplen Trick infrage: Er macht es vollkommen transparent, wobei die räumliche Desorientierung des Besuchers erhalten, wenn nicht gar verstärkt wird. Das Konzept versinnbildlicht den Zustand des Architekten angesichts aller Ungewissheiten seiner Tätigkeit. Insbeson §15§dere in seiner Heimat ist Chowdhury gezwungen, mit Entschlossenheit zwischen zahllosen Herausforderungen auf allen Ebenen zu arbeiten. Die Installation verdeutlicht somit auch all die verblüffenden Hindernisse, denen er sich, trotz klarer Vision seines Projekts, auf dem Weg zur Realisierung gegenübersieht.§ §07§§A captivating exhibition desgin by Dhaka-based architect Kashef Chowdhury, winner of the 2016 Aga Khan Architecture Award§ §02§§ Alejandro Aravena is an architect and executive director of the architecture firm Elemental S.A. in Providencia, Chile. He is the 2016 Pritzker Prize Laureate and has been director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2016.§ § Kashef Chowdhury founded his Dhaka-based firm URBANA in 1995. He has twice been finalist for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and has won various other prizes for his work, including the Architectural Review's 2012 Emerging Architecture Award.§ § Robert McCarter is an architect and professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. He is also a prolific writer and author of monographs on eminent architects, including Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Aldo van Eyck, Steven Holl, Louis I. Kahn, and Frank Lloyd Wright.§

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