Rethinking Rethinking Kuwait

KUWAIT PAVILION AT THE 18TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION
BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2023

Curated by Hamad Alkhaleefi, Naser Ashour, Mohammad Kassem, Rabab Raes Kazem

Exhibitors: Abdulaziz Bazuhair, Abdullah Albusaili, Abdulrahman Sadeq, Aliaa Mahdy, Aziz Motawa,
Bader Al Moulah, Batool Ashour, Dana Alrashid, Fareed Alghimlas, Fatima Al Fulaij,
Hasan Al Saffar, Jassim Alelwani, Jassim Alnashmi, Latifa Al-Hajji, Maha Al Asaker, Malak Al Suwaihel,
Maryam Mohammed, Mohammed Khesroh, Nada Abu-Daqer, Noor Abdulkhaleq, Nour Jafar, Nourah Alazmi,
Qutaiba Buyabes, Sara Al-zeer, Sayer Al Sayer, Suad Al-Bahar, Sultan Alsamhan,
Vinod Kumar, Yasmeen Abdal, Zahra Al-Mahdi, Zahra Hashim

Commissioned by Abdulaziz Al-Mazeedi
National Council for Culture Arts and Literature / Kuwait (NCCAL)

VENUE: Magazzino Del Sale N.5 – Dorsoduro, 262 – 30123 Venice

M+B Studio: Technical Coordination in Venice

 

 

The pavilion explores new methods for architectural and urban design that emerge from the intersections of space and time. The project is an ongoing investigation attempting to rectify the effects of modernist urban planning that led to the erasure of most of Kuwait’s historic built fabric.

The pavilion, located at Magazzino Del Sale N.5, explores ideas of decolonization and decarbonization by rethinking means of transportation and accessibility. The project looks at Kuwait at a national scale with a focused study on Kuwait City as a prototypical condition. The exhibition features various studies that explore transitional spaces in the city that range in scope and scale. In our collective philosophy, history is treated as a spiral rather than a linear timeline; looking for moments of precedent that can inform future developments.

 

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