October 6–11, 2019
The 11th Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, BIAU, kicks off in Asunción, Paraguay on October 6. All week long, different enclaves of the city will accommodate exhibitions, lectures and debates, as well as a cinema program and activities for everyone.
The 11th BIAU, which is curated by Ana Román and Arturo Franco, draws together the best architecture from the 22 countries that make up Ibero-America. The main exhibition brings together works in the “Panorama de obras” category. The following parallel events will be staged during the biennial: the “Habitando Iberoamérica” (Living in Ibero-America), “Publicaciones” (Publications) and “Textos de Investigación” (Research Texts) exhibitions; a display of national architecture in the Paraguay Pavilion, run by Lukas Fuster; and the presentation of the different projects proposed for the borough of La Chacarita by national curators from the different Ibero-American countries involved in the BIAU, with the support of local architects and residents in that borough.
However the Biennial is far more than that. It is “Ibero-American photographers” and “Architecture photographers,” with exhibits on display by a meaningful selection of Ibero-American photographers. It is a cinema program where multidisciplinary artists reflect on the urban space, the interior and domestic space, man’s footprints on the landscape and the visual transformation of landscape and space through the specificity of film language. This is Ibero-American transfers, an experimental action that combines the street—the public space par excellence—with the instantaneous and global space of communication. An overlap between several cities through their street sounds emitted in real time. It is the voice of great Ibero-American Masters who manifest themselves in Asunción through a series of videos in which they talk about architecture, about their architecture, about the Architecture, from their homes, from their living rooms, from the routine of daily domestic life, at their ease.
The Biennial program is rounded off with a lecture series in which national curators and distinguished architects take part. The closing lecture of the 11th BIAU will be given by architects Solano Benítez and Gloria Cabral, the chairpersons of the jury for the “Panorama ode obras” section.
The conceptual axis of this edition is: aĩ paragua y (madre de ciudades).
“Ibero-America is inhabited and built at one and the same time. It is constantly under repair. The person who builds the spaces is the person who inhabits them, so they think about what they are building, and build with what is at hand. Ibero-America is always experienced as a city in the making; throbbing, mestizo, imperfect. The 11th Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial shows us how we live in Ibero-America. It shows it to us matter-of-factly, talking about everyday life. There lies its radicalism.“ Arturo Franco and Ana Román. Curators of the XI BIAU.
Registration is now open.
Check out the full program for the 11th BIAU here.
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