The Pavilion of Turkey presents “Architecture as Measure” at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2021. Curated by Neyran Turan and coordinated by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the exhibition positions architecture as a measure that can help assess our place on Earth and our role in relation to those with whom we live together: as architects with the actors of other disciplines and domains of work, and as a species alongside more-than-human others.
Presented through an installation, an online publication, and storytelling, “Architecture as Measure” focuses on the politics and nuances of the seemingly mundane aspects and sites of architectural construction, juxtaposing them with their planetary counterparts through geographies of resource extraction, material supply chains, maintenance and care in Turkey and beyond.
