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Knowing and Unknowing
The Lives of Repair
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Documents the artworks of the exhibition Repair, Australian Pavilion, 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, under the creative direction of Baracco+Wright Architects in collaboration with Linda Tegg. It shares the thinking embodied in the work and reflects on the spaces prompted by its life.
The exhibition invites you to look anew at a plant community that has been overlooked as a site only for human use, to the extent that there is only 1% now left, and to reflect on the ground, what it supports, what is displaced. As presented through our premier cultural institution, La Biennale di Venezia, this exhibition will live on through seed the authors of this investigation have already started to collect and through relationships they are building with research institutes in Europe.
Knowing and Unknowing by Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright reflects deeply on these themes, offering insights into the unseen and often unappreciated aspects of architectural and environmental repair.
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ISBN: 9781948765794
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 September 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Actar Publishers
Contributors:
- With Linda Tegg
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 239.0mm
Height: 287.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 72
About the Author
Louise Wright is a co-director of Baracco + Wright Architects (B+W). She has a PhD in architecture (RMIT University) and is also a sessional lecturer in design at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. B+W believe in a wide role for architectural thinking beyond the individual building. All projects are approached with a particular and equal attention to the parts and the whole, to individual project conditions and to the discourse of architecture.
Mauro Baracco was born and educated in Italy where he practiced and taught at Turin Polytechnic and the European Institute of Design, Milan. He moved to Melbourne in 1996, where he has been an academic at RMIT since, and a director of Baracco + Wright Architects.
Linda Tegg has been selected as the Samstag Scholar for 2014 and was the recipient of the Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship 2012; the Australia Council ArtStart grant, the Arts Victoria International Exchange grant 2011, the KPMG Art Award 2010, the Australian Postgraduate award 2009-10, the Keith and Elisabeth Mudoch Travelling Fellowship 2009, National Gallery Women's Association Postgraduate Encouragement Award, Alliance Francaise Award, Fiona Myer Award, ANZ Art Award People's Choice in 2008. Tegg received an RMIT Travel Grant and John Storey Junior Memorial Scholarship in 2001 and was named Australian Student Photographer of the Year, AIPP in 2000.
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