The Biennale is worth a visit to Venice this year! Here’s the link to an interesting walk with Philippe Daverio and Marino Folin, who was a professor at IUAV (Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia) at the time I was attending it in Venice. He then became also director of the prestigious University. The used Italian language is quite simple, considering the complexity of the cultural issue. I think anyone who knows a bit of Italian can take advantage of the interesting speech. Philippe points out an interesting consideration: no one of the architectural solution showed in the biennale could have been approved by any of the Italian local planning authorities due to the rigid and rational bounds they normally apply to ensure a standard way of doing architecture. I can confirm it! When I started the profession of architect in the town of Bologna, almost twenty years ago, maybe because the town at that times was still under the influence of the communist ideas, it was not possible to plan a room without adhering at some imposed schemes. They were officially imposed to accomplish the standard dimensions of the furniture. I had some inspectors who measured the distance between the axes of the water closed and the bidet in a bathroom I was building: due to a modest discrepancy of a few centimetres (an inch), I had to modify the entire layout of the bathroom! Philippe has a funny cure to suggest for such type of bureaucracy: the Italian planning authorities should have their headquarters in the fantastic installations of the Biennale so to get accustomed to appreciating the force of innovation instead of being so fussy to pursue the banality of the imposed choices. We have still two weeks available in Nati’s House before the Biennale ends: from 30 of October to 6th of November and from 13 to 20 of November. Hurry up, take a low cost flight: Nati’s House is waiting you.
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