Construction workers are one of the most critical yet underrepresented groups of people in the architecture industry. Often times, the safety of labor conditions are pushed aside in favor of budget constraints and strict deadlines. The Fair Building, an exhibition hosted by the Polish Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale, will address these issues and ask: ?why don?t buildings come with ?fair trade? marks"?

Photo taken during the making of the "Fair Building" project. Image © Michal Gdak

Construction workers are one of the most critical yet underrepresented groups of people in the architecture industry. Often times, the safety of labor conditions are pushed aside in favor of budget constraints and strict deadlines. The Fair Building, an exhibition hosted by the Polish Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale, will address these issues and ask: ?why don?t buildings come with ?fair trade? marks"?Responding to the theme of ?Reporting from the Front?, the curatorial team, Martyna Janicka, Dominika Janicka, and Michal Gdak, based their pavilion design around the idea that ?construction sites represent the frontline in architecture.?
Photo taken during the making of the "Fair Building" project. Image © Michal Gdak

The pavilion will contain a two-part installation. The first part is a mockup scaffolding, which represents a construction site and displays videos of construction workers describing their workplace conditions. T...