Alison Brooks Architects Venice, Home Ground Exhibition Italy, ABA Show 2021
?Home Ground?, La Biennale di Venezia 2021
24 May 2021
Biennale Architettura 2021
‘Home Ground’
Alison Brooks Architects is exhibiting at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia,
curated by Hashim Sarkis.

Photos © Gerda Studio
Alison Brooks Architects? ?Home Ground?, La Biennale di Venezia 2021
Despite being announced in 2020, the Biennale theme ‘How will we live together"’ feels even more relevant in an emerging post-Covid19 context. Divides and inequalities have been brought into sharper focus. But the crisis has also brought local and global communities together with renewed purpose: to find new and more sustainable ways of living together. Alison Brooks Architects is presenting an intricate look at the potential of housing to operate as productive, social, and inclusive civic building. We hope our installation will contribute to a critical global conversation.

?Home Ground’ is situated in the Arsenale, one of the exhibition venues of the Biennale Architettura 2021. The installation responds to the question ?How will we live together"? with a monumental table into which sixteen architectural models are cast as a participatory ?conversation piece?.
The installation explores how housing defines the way we live together in cities; as households, and by shaping collective ground. It combines models of Alison Brooks...