我们的乡村 关于2018威尼斯建筑双年展中国国家馆的思考

Building a Future Countryside Reflecting on the Themed Exhibition of the China Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale

文章介绍了第16届威尼斯建筑双年展中国国家馆的主题展览——"我们的乡村",该展览呈现了近十多年来中国建筑师的乡村建筑实践作品。文章指出,建筑师或艺术家的建造实践,已经不再停留于在乡村环境中一次性地做出一个富有个性的好作品,而是尝试延伸为一系列多角度、多层次的建造行动和社会活动来持续性地参与乡村环境的改造、乡村经济的发展、产业的转型乃至文化的复兴;不仅完成空间环境的重建,某种程度上,更包含了对"乡土建造"观念的"重建",激发了对乡村问题的反思。这是一个既向乡村输出、又向乡村学习的过程,绝非仅是一波建设热潮,而是早已成为一种经济的、社会的和文化的现象。

The article introduces the themed exhibition of the China Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, entitled ＂Building a Future Countryside＂, which presents the practices of rural architecture by Chinese architects from the past decade. The article suggests that the architectural practices by architects or artists are no longer limited to one- off exercises of good works in rural environment that privilege individual gestures. Rather it has extended into a series of multi-angle, multi-level architectural initiatives and social events, as a way to continuously involve in the transformation of rural environment, development of rural economy, industrial transformation and even cultural revival. On the one hand, it is to achieve the redevelopment of the spatial environment. On the other hand, to certain extent, it implies to ＂redevelop＂ the concept of ＂rural construction＂ and to provoke the reflections on rural issues. This is a process of exporting to the countryside while learning from the countryside. It is not just another wave of construction, but has become an economic, social, and cultural phenomenon.